| A | B |
|---|
| Rosenbergs | Americans accused of obtaining atomic secrets from the Soviet Union |
| Interstate Highway Act | Largest public-works project in the United States |
| Space Race | Competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to go to the moon |
| Taft-Hartley Act | Regulated the power of labor unions |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator who charged that communitsts were in the USA |
| Rosa Parks | Refused to give up a seat on the bus |
| GI Bill | Helped veternas return to civilian life |
| States' Rights Party | Southern Democrats who opposed civil rights |
| Laissez faire | Eisenhower's approach to the economy |
| Boycott | Way blacks protested segregation on buses |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Preached nonviolent protest to win equal rights |
| Richard Nixon | Served as Vice-President under Eisenhower |
| Adlai Stevenson | Ran for President on the Democratic ticket in 1952 and 1956 |
| Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education | school integration |
| Suburbs | Housing developments outside the city |
| Inner cities | Began to decline in the 1950's |
| Alger Hiss | Accused of espionage |
| Dr. Klaus Fuchs | Gave the Soviet secrets about the atomic bomb |
| NAACP | Black civil rights group |
| Blacklist | Suspected communists who were banned from the film industry |
| civil disobedience | nonviolent protest to unjust laws |
| closed shop | Business that requires all workders to be union members when hired |
| de facto segregation | racial segregation that exists because of practices, not by law |
| gross national products | total value of all goods and services produced by a nation in a single year |
| Truman | Desegregated the military |
| Church membership | Doubled in size |
| Elvis Presley | Rock n Roll star |
| Beatniks | A symbol of disillusionment |
| Jackie Robinson | 1st black major league baseball player |
| Blacklist | people unable to work in movies due to alleged communism |
| Harry Biggs Sr. | father who wanted equality in schools |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP lawyer became 1st black Supreme Court Justice |
| Justice Earl Warren | Chief Justice who persuaded other Justices that segregation was unequal |
