| A | B |
| segregation | separation of races |
| Civil Rights movement | people who fought for equality for minorties |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Civil Rights leader who believed in non-violence |
| Rosa Parks | refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus which caused the Bus boycott |
| Richard Nixon | was involved with the Watergate affair, or stealing information, resigned as President |
| resign | leave or quit |
| JF Kennedy | created the Peace Corps, NASA, was later assinated |
| LB Johnson | created the Great Society to help the poor, also became involved in the Vietnam War |
| Ford | pardoned Nixon |
| pardon | to excuse |
| Brown V Board of Education | stopped segregation of schools |
| Baby Boom | dramatic increase in population after 1945 |
| Government Spending | helped to build roads and schools which helped the economy after WWII |