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A large corporation
that owns a number
of smaller unrelated
companies
Conglomerate
With more money to
spend and more
products to buy, this
was the preoccupation
with purchasing material
goods
Consumerism
A marketing
strategy designed
to encourage
consumers to buy
more goods
Planned
Obsolescence
A company that offers
similar products or
services in many
locations
Franchise
A disadvantage of
corporate
standardization in
American business was
that it discouraged this
Individuality
He was nominated by
the Dixiecrats to run
for president in the
1948 election
Strom
Thurmond
President Harry Truman
threated to do this to
striking workers in an
effort to keep strikes
from crippling the US
economy in late 1940s
Draft
The Beat Movement
and Rock and Roll
music were viewed as
forms of this
Rebellion
He created the
vaccine for polio
Dr. Jonas
Salk
He was the first
politician to skillfully
use the new medium
of television
Richard
Nixon
The Eisenhower
Doctrine was a
warning to the Soviet
Union against military
intervention here
Middle East
They are best
known for
investigating
Communism in the
film industry
HUAC
The leader of
Communist China
Mao Zedong
He was convicted of
perjury after being
accused of spying for the
USSR
Alger Hiss
During the 1950s, the
Republican Party hoped
to support a balanced
federal budget and
counter Communism by
relying on these/this
Nuclear
weapons
(brinkmanship)
What group was forced
to retreat to Taiwan
The Chinese
Nationalists
This battle was the
last German offensive
of WWII
Battle of the
Bulge
These three
leaders attended
the Yalta
Conference
Stalin,
Churchill,
FDR
He was the Supreme
Commander of US
forces in Europe
during WWII
Dwight D
Eisenhower
Of these 4 forms of
government, which was not
represented by the Axis
powers: Militaristic
Monarchy, Communist,
Totalitarian, or Fascist
Communist
During this, food
and supplies were
flown to the people
inside a blockaded
West Berlin
Berlin Airlift
The height of this
unprecedented
population explosion
in the US occurred
in 1957
Baby Boom
st
1
Name of
Satellite in
space
Sputnik
He gave his famous
“Iron Curtain”
speech at
Westminster College
in Fulton, MO
Winston
Churchill
He was the first DJ to
play Rock and Roll
music on the radio
Alan Freed
Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg were
members of this
American
Communist Party