| A | B |
|---|
| What was done with Japan and Germany after WWII | Germany was divided; both countries were occupied |
| containment | US foreign policy during Cold War; stop the spread of communism |
| Marshall Plan | $12 billion given to Europe to prevent communism |
| Domino Theory | fear that communism would spread from one country to the next |
| Korean War | North Korea attacks South Korea; US/UN intervene; Today North is communist and South is democratic |
| Suez War | Egypt and Israel fight over canal |
| U-2 incident | US spy plan is shot down over Russia |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | JFK gets USSR to back down; almost WWIII |
| United Nations | established after WWII to keep world peace |
| Truman Doctrine | gives military and financial aid to Greece and Turkey to stop communism |
| Berlin Airlift | US sent food over a Soviet blockade |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | US Senator who unfairly accused people of being communists in the 1950's |
| Israel | established as a Jewish nation in 1948 |
| Berlin Wall | built to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | failed US attempt to overthrow the government of Cuba |
| Hotline | direct phone line between the White House and the Kremlin in hope to prevent war |
| population shifts | farmers to cities; blacks to North; elderly to sunbelt |
| GI Bill of Rights | offered low interest home loans to vet's |
| Sputnik | USSR launches 1st space satellite |
| Kennedy vs. Nixon debate | TV made JFK look young and energetic; it made Nixon look nervous and sneaky |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | separate but equal in inherently unequal |
| Ernest Green | 1st member of the Little Rock 9 to graduate |
| discrimination, racism, prejudice | people base decisions on ignorance, are afraid of difference, and do not judge others as individuals |
| John Glenn | 1st American to orbit the Earth |
| New Frontier | what JFK called his administration |
| civil rights | black crusade for equality in the US |
| integration | mix |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | black leader who called for non-violent resistace to segregation |
