| A | B |
|---|
| Cold War | struggle between Communism and democracy |
| Korean War | A war in which neither side won; over communism |
| McCarthyism | anti-communist feelings throughout the nation; witch-hunt and trials for American "communists" |
| UNIVAC I invention | First widely marketed computer |
| Brown V. Board of Education | Court case that desegregated schools; overturned Plessy v Ferguson |
| Civil Rights Movement | sparked by a seamstress from Alabama |
| Polio Vaccine | developed by Jonas Salk |
| The Federal Highway Act | Eisenhower's pet project; passed in 1956 |
| Launch of Sputnik | Marked beginning of Space Race between U.S. and U.S.S.R |
| Alaska and Hawaii become states | the 49th and 50th state enter the union in 1959 |
