| A | B |
|---|
| Iron Curtain | Imaginary line separating Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West. |
| Period of rapidly increasing birthrates between 1945 and 1961 | Baby Boom |
| Containment | Cold War policy aimed at keeping communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions |
| Truman Doctrine | US will intervene and aid nations overseas to fight communism |
| Marshall Plan | Financial support for war-torn nations to prevent spread of Communism |
| Soviet satellite nations | Nations answering to and representing views of USSR |
| Federal Republic of Germany | West Germany |
| German Democratic Republic | East Germany |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Nationalist leader of China before Communist revolution |
| Mao Tse-tung | Chinese leader backed by Soviets |
| Korean War | 38th parallel |
| Domino theory | If one nation falls to communism, surrounding nations will fall as well |
| Bay of Pigs | Failed attempt to overthrow Cuba's communist government |
| Berlin Wall | Symbol of Cold War |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Brink of nuclear war |
| Fair Deal | Truman's plan that extended Social security, increased minimum wage, and low income housing |
| Consumer culture | After WWII, people began to buy goods. |
| McCarthyism | Nationwide panic that Communists had infiltrated government, military, and Hollywood |
| Plessy v Ferguson | Separate but equal |
| Brown v Board of Education | Racial segregation unconstitutional |
| Little Rock Nine | First students to intergrate Central High |
| Kent State | protest turned violent |
| Pentagon Papers | Reveal that US government had been dishonest about involvement in Vietnam |
| Woodstock | Music fair where hundreds of thousands of people came to promote peae |
| Tet Offensive | Vietnamese New Year Attack that convinces most Americans troops need to be removed |
| Agent Orange | Herbicide dropped to kill vegatation |
| Napalm | jellied gasoline |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Congress effectively gives president war powers |
| Geneva Accords | temporarily divides Vietnam |
| My Lai | Civilians massacred |
| Vietnamization | US begins to hand control over to South Vietnam |
| Counterculture | New styles of clothing, music, and life |
| GI Bill | Allows servicemen to go to school, start businesses, and buy houses |
