| A | B |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | High point of the Cold War. The U.S. almost went to war with the Soviet Union |
| EPA | its purpose is to enforce pollution laws |
| Silent Generation | conforming to general standards |
| OSHA | created to protect workplace safety |
| Doves | opposed the Vietnam War |
| Warren Burger | Conservative Chief Justice of the Supreme Court named by Nixon |
| Henry Kissinger | Nixon's foreign policy advisor |
| realpolitik | practicing foreign relations based on power and usefulness |
| Hungary | attempted to overthrow communism in 1956. Not helped by the US |
| Cuba | site of missle crisis in 1962 |
| Third World | nations with an economy based on agriculture |
| La Raza Unida | sought better housing for Mexican -Americans |
| John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's Secretary of State |
| Massive Retaliation | Dulles' foreign policy cornerstone |
| Bays of Pigs | Kennedy's worst foreign policy decision |
| Television | Used by Kennedy to win the 1960 election |
| Counterculture | young people with anti-establishment values |
| Eisenhower | warned about the military-industrial complex |
| Business | favored by Eisenhower |
| Hydrogen Bomb | developed during the Eisenhower years |