Calvin & Staheli US History Terms and Concepts 1950s Unit People Harry S. Truman Nikita Khrushchev Chiang Kai Shek Dwight D. Eisenhower Francis Gary Powers Mao Zedong Richard M. Nixon Joseph McCarthy Kim Il Sung George Kennan Edward R. Murrow Syngman Rhee George C. Marshall J. Robert Oppenheimer Douglas MacArthur Winston Churchill Julius and Ethel Elvis Presley Rosenberg Lucille Ball Alger Hiss Joseph Stalin Terms and Concepts Cold War Baby Boom Causes of Korean War Rock n’ Roll Significances of Korean War (3) Suburbs 38th Parallel Sputnik Division of Countries after WWII White Flight (Germany and Korea) Rise of the “teenager” Inchon Invasion China’s “fall” to communism Containment Taiwan/Chinese Nationalists Yalta Conference – significance for Cold GI Bill of Rights War Television and cultural norms United Nations Poverty in the 1950s UN Security Council Red Scare/McCarthyism Iron Curtain HUAC Berlin Blockade CIA Berlin Airlift U2 spy plane/U2 Incident Truman Doctrine Changes in Society because of Atomic Marshall Plan bombs (Atomic Café) NATO Brinkmanship Warsaw Pact Soviet Satellite States Economic and political systems of USA Gender in the 1950s and USSR Interstate Freeway construction Economic miracle of 1950s Cold War Economy
Calvin & Staheli US History Terms and Concepts 1950s Unit People Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard M. Nixon George Kennan George C. Marshall Winston Churchill Lucille Ball Joseph Stalin Nikita Khrushchev Francis Gary Powers Joseph McCarthy Edward R. Murrow J. Robert Oppenheimer Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Alger Hiss Chiang Kai Shek Mao Zedong Kim Il Sung Syngman Rhee Douglas MacArthur Elvis Presley Terms and Concepts Cold War Causes of Korean War Significances of Korean War (3) 38th Parallel Division of Countries after WWII (Germany and Korea) Inchon Invasion Containment Yalta Conference – significance for Cold War United Nations UN Security Council Iron Curtain Berlin Blockade Berlin Airlift Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan NATO Warsaw Pact Economic and political systems of USA and USSR Economic miracle of 1950s Cold War Economy Baby Boom Rock n’ Roll Suburbs Sputnik White Flight Rise of the “teenager” China’s “fall” to communism Taiwan/Chinese Nationalists GI Bill of Rights Television and cultural norms Poverty in the 1950s Red Scare/McCarthyism HUAC CIA U2 spy plane/U2 Incident Changes in Society because of Atomic bombs (Atomic Café) Brinkmanship Soviet Satellite States Gender in the 1950s Interstate Freeway construction
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