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MOSTLY 50s MUSIC COLD WAR I hear you RED SCARE 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500
THIS Detroit record label produced the most popular and successful African American artists including Stevie Wonder , the Supremes and THIS artist.
THIS famous radio disc jockey was one of the first to play the “new” rhythm and blues” music of the 1950s that he will call “rock n roll” ?
What is the name of the British rock group that becomes popular in the US in the early 60s ?
These four men pictured here came to be called The Million Dollar Quartet as a result of the recordings made together in 1956.
Who are Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis , Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins ? 500
This man fueled the 50s red scare when he revealed a list , naming 205 communists he believed to be working the US state department
THIS is the military alliance between the United States, Canada and Western Europe formed
What is NATO ? 200
THIS involved a charge of espionage, resulted in the execution of the defendants AND was controversial because of lingering doubts about their guilt
The desire to stop communist subversion within the United States involved THESE three government actions
What are : 1. loyalty reviews on government employees starting in 1947 2. HUAC investigations3. the passage of the McCarren Act ? 400
THIS was the televised sessions of McCarthy’s accusations of communist traitors in the Army that showed the public the true character of McCarthy and discredited him.(This preceded the Senate condemnation of McCarthy for falsely accusing colleagues of being communist )
This Arthur Miller drama was about the Salem Witch TrialsAND about the McCarthy witch hunts
“The Crucible” 100
THIS Soviet Bloc country’s attempt to break away form the Soviet Bloc was brutally crushed by the Soviet Union in 1956
What is Hungary ? 200 200
This Dr. Seuss book told of two sides building bigger and bigger weapons. Sounds all too familiar to us.
THIS is the name of a popular 50s detective TV show that was run again in the late 60s & early 70s.(starring the character of Sgt. Joe Friday)
This is the name of the US backed leader of China who was forced to flee to Taiwan after the communist revolution succeeded
What is Polar Bears live at North Pole, Penguins live at South Pole? 200
The trial of THIS man resulted from one of HUAC’s most controversial investigations AND gave Richard Nixon ,the young congressman who led the investigation ,the reputation ofbeing a communist hunter
All of the following are related to THIS in the late 1940s & early 1950s 1.requiring government workers to take a loyalty oath2. trial and execution of some convicted communist subversives 3. blacklisting of people working in the media
What is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s ? 400
THIS is the name of the group established by Congress in 1947 to investigate communists and other suspected subversives
Those arrested for refusing to answer the questions of HUAC as it investigated supposed communists in the movie industry were called THIS
Some people charged that the anti-Communist investigations of the 1940s and 1950s were a danger to the country because of THIS
What is that the investigations violated American concepts of justice and civil rights? 200
people should do these 3 “R’s” everyday, not just on Earth Day.