The American Dream in the 1950s

1. Baby Boom
This gave companies when the babies grew up a huge number of workers and this could boost the U.S. economy by allowing more work to be done. This also helped certain industries to go finacially and for more public schools to be opened.
2. Dr. Jonas Salk
He helped create the polio vaccine that helped kids not contract polio so that not many people were effected by the disease.
3. Interstate Highway System
This allowed people to get where they needed to go much faster. This also helped suburban communities start growing farther away from the cities.
4. Franchise
This made it so big companies could keep putting their businesses different places. Also it gave owners the right to use their parent companies name for their establishment.
5. In a paragraph, describe in detail how Americans spent their leisure time in the 1950s
Americans spent their leasure time in many different ways. Some activly played sports such as baseball, basketball, and football. Also people started going to more of the proffesional level games. American also started becoming avid readers.

The Arms Race

1. Read Source 12. What methods do you think Dulles had in mind to 'liberate captive peoples' without a war?
I think he means to show the communist nations of the world how great Captalism is and how great democracy is. Basically I think he wants to fight a economic, political, and propaganda war but not a military war.
2. Look at Source 13. Would you agree that the Communist world was encircled? Explain your answer.
Yeah I do think the Communist world was encircled. This is because of the fact that almost on every side of the members of the warsaw pact their was a nation allied with Ameircan. Also because on basically on every side of the communist nations their was a hostile nation to their government policy.
3. Carefully examine the verticle timeline on page 343. Then look back at Source 12. Do you think the development of nuclear weapons was what Dulles might have had in mind?
I don't think Dulles meant using and devoloping nuclear weapons. This is because devoloping and using nuclear weapons would lead to war and killing many innocent people. This isn't a was of avoiding war. This is a way of starting war.
4. Look at Source 16. What is the Soviet cartoon saying about the U-2 plane?
The soviet cartoonist is saying the U-2 planes are letting the Americans spy of the soviets and it's helps them be the "nosy neighbor".
5. Read the Factfile on page 344. Explain why the USSR was so angry about the US spy flights.
The Americans were violating Soviet airspace with the spying flights. Also it was an act of espianage and the pilot could be exuctued by the Soviets. Also it was an act of aggression.
6. How would the USA justify this violation of Soviet territory?
They could have justified the flights because of the fact that the playing were only looking for information to protect the U.S. from Soviet nulcear attacks and was an example of homeland security to keep the American public safe from nuclear threats.
7. If the USSR had had U-2 planes, do you think it would have used them? Why?
I don't think the Soviets would have used spy planes if they had them. This is because they condemed the U.S. for using them and if they used them they would be hypocrits and would be shamed in front of the whole world.
8. Look at Source 17. Why do you think the USA had missiles based in Europe?
The U.S. had short range nuclear missles based in Europe for rapid responce. It took 30 minutes for an icbm launched from American soil to hit the soviets but only 5 minutes to hit the soviets if they fired a short range nuke.
9. Define the term 'nuclear deterrent' in not more than 20 words.
Nuclear Deterrent is when both sides had nukes and know if they fire nukes they'll be killed too.