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was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines.

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The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act Public Law 84-627, was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.

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A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.

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is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states—especially the United States and Europe—and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

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was an American real-estate developer. In his position as president of Levitt & Sons, he is widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia.

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was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II (1939-1945), oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan and led United Nations forces in the Korean War.

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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", or simply the King.

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Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.

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Vaccine against poliomyelitis named for Dr. Jonas Salk who developed and introduced it in 1955. It was the first type of polio vaccine to become available. It was made by cultivating three strains of the virus separately in monkey tissue.

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Joseph P. McCarthy of Wisconsin. Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government. In the hyper-suspicious atmosphere of the Cold War, insinuations of disloyalty were enough to convince many Americans that their government was packed with traitors and spies. McCarthy’s accusations were so intimidating that few people dared to speak out against him.

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A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. Some have argued that the Rosenbergs were innocent victims of McCarthy-era hysteria against communists or of anti-Semitism.

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Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and decorated military general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

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Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, assuming the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the waning months of World War II.

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Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition

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each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which launched on October 4, 1957 was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

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The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This scare was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.

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The House Un-American Activities Committee, a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, investigate allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War

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a building or other structure designed to protect people from radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion.

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the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.

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is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries. The organization works on economic and social development programs, improving human rights and reducing global conflicts.

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esponse or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.

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occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

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an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

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was started in 1958 as a part of the United States government. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space.

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a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.

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A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.

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is a married woman whose job it is to stay home and care for the house, her husband and sometimes the children. A woman who stays home, keeps her house, cooks, cleans and takes care of her children is an example of a house.

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as an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World

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a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.

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an engine mechanic or an unskilled member of a ship's engine-room crew.

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the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.

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the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

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a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.

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in U.S. history, 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress.

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a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of black rhythm and blues and white country music, usually based on a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums.

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compliance with standards, rules, or laws.behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards.compliance with the practices of the Church of England.

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relating to the work done or those who work in an office or other professional environment.denoting nonviolent crime committed by white-collar workers, especially fraud.

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a temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II.

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A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.