| A | B |
|---|
| duck and cover | phrase used to train Americans in the event of nuclear attack |
| National Organization for Women | encouraged women to participate in politics |
| National Security Act | created a loyalty board to investigate communism |
| Alger Hiss | accused of being a spy, convicted of perjury |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs | convicted and executed for being spies |
| National Highway Act | created the interstate highway system |
| New Left | growing youth movement of the 1960s |
| Montgomery Bus Boycotts | 1955, started the Civil Rights Mvt. |
| Rosa Parks | refused to give up her seat on the bus |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | led SCLC and Civil Rights Mvt, civil disobedience |
| Black Panthers | fought police brutality in the ghettos |
| James Meredith | 1st African American to attend Univ. of Mississippi |
| Little Rock Nine | attended Little Rock High School 1957 |
| Thurgood Marshall | 1st African American appointed to the Supreme Court |
| 24th amendment | Abolished the poll tax |
| detente | ‘an easing of tensions’ during Cold War |
| Brown v. Board of Education | ended segregation, overturned Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | integrated public facilities |
| Haight-Ashbury | hippie capital, San Francisco, illegal drugs |
| Cesar Chavez | founded the National Farm Workers Association |
| SALT I and II | nuclear weapons agreements between US and Soviet Union |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | federal government would protect African American voting rights |
| SNCC | student led protests during Civil Rights Mvt |
| George Wallace | segregation governor of Alabama |
| Gloria Steinem | Feminist leader |
| Phyllis Schafly | opposed ERA and women’s rights |
| Roe v. Wade | abortion |
| Clean Air Act | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring |
| Betty Friedan | The Feminine Mystique |
| House on Un-American Activities Committee | investigated communist activity in the movies |
