“AMERICA: THE STORY OF US – Superpower”
PrepUS History
Unit 8 - WWII and Beyond
“AMERICA: THE STORY OF US – Superpower”
1. What was the US population in 1945?
2. The average American family made ________ more than the average family in Europe.
3. What were America’s first highways?
4. What President made it his mission to improve American roads?
5. What was the biggest engineering project in history?
6. By 1955 the US was making ______ % of the world’s automobiles.
7. Why do many towns die in the 1950s?
8. In 1946, ____ baby was born every ____ seconds; it’s the __________ __________.
9. What was the location of America’s most famous postwar housing?
10. How much was the family home in today’s money?
11. What “won” the South?
12. Who told the world in 1961 that America would put a man on the moon?
13. How many Americans worked strictly on Apollo 11?
14. How many Americans reached the moon?
15. What was the fault line that chained the nation?
16. When did change begin for African Americans?
17. What did President Truman change in July 1948?
18. Who was the voice of the modern Civil Rights Movement?
19. What was passed a year after the March on Washington?
20. What did the Manhattan Project develop?
21. What infiltrated the Manhattan Project?
22. When did the Soviets get the atomic bomb?
23. What were the Cold War drills done at school called?
24. The ______ __________ occurred in 1960 when a US spy plane was shot down over the USSR.
25. The __________ __________ __________ occurred in 1962 when the USSR threatened to put nuclear warheads in Cuba.
26. Why were congressional hearings set up in the 1950s?
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