| A | B |
|---|
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Ended discrimination in public places and on the job |
| Domino Theory | Theory that if one country fell to communism, others would fall as well |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Overturned Plessey v. Ferguson |
| Little Rock Arkansas | Place that was famous for resisting school integration |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Led to large increase in number of African American voters |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP lawyer that won the Brown case |
| Homestead Act | Offered free land in the West to settlers |
| 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote |
| Containment | Foreign policy of the U. S. from 1945 to the 1970s |
| Appomattox | Site of Lee's surrender to Grant |
| Poland | World War 2 began when Hitler invaded |
| Stalingrad | Key battle which Soviet Union was Victorious over Germany |
| island hopping | Name of American Military strategy in Pacific |
| Nuremberg | Where were Nazi leaders tried and convicted of war crimes |
| the invasion of Normandy | Which began the liberation of France and rest of Europe from Axis powers |
| the Holocaust | Phrase used to describe extermination of 6 million Jews |
| Domino Theory | Political theory during the cold war |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader of cuba during the Cuban missile crisis |
| 38th Parallel | This whas dividing line between communist and democratic portions |
| Truman Doctrine | foreign policy |
| Kennedy | President of U.S. during Cuban missile crisis |
| NATO | Defensive alliance among U.S. and Western European countries |
| East | Soviet Union occupied___________Germany after WW2 |
| Marshall Plan | U.S. initiated this plan |
| Cuba | Bay of Pigs occured in which country |
| The jungle | Which book did Upton Sinclair describe the terrible working in meat packing industry |
| Laissez-faire theory | The belief that government should not regulate business |
| Booker T. Washington | Willing to accept racial segregation and believed the path to equality was vocational education |
| Chinese | group of immigrants made up 9/10ths of the labor force |
| Sherman Anti-trust Act | This placed stricter regulations on unfair business practices |
| Knights of Labor | First Labor Union |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's peace plan |
| League of Nations | One of the most important points in Wilson's Fourteen Points |
| Navajo Indians | This group of Americans help the Allies win WWII by using their language as a code |
