| A | B |
|---|
| hydrogen bomb | part of the "new look" in US foreign policy, invovling the willingmess to go to the edge of war to oppose communism |
| Suez canal Crisis | international conflict over nationalization of an important waterway |
| urban renewal | federal program designed to improve life in the cities |
| CIA | secretive government organization established by the National Security Act in 1947 |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | protest against segregated public transportation |
| Sun Belt | states of the South and Southwest to which many Americans moved during the 1950s |
| automation | use of machines in production which took jobs away from industrial workers and weakened labor unions |
| SCLC | group of ministers, founded by MLK Jr. and others that helped lead fight for civil rights |
| Levittown | early example of a preplanned and mass produced surburban housing development |
| beats | group of writers who used unusual writing styles and rebellious behavior to criticize American life |
| Little Rock Nine | Af. Am. students chosen to attend Central High |
| Committee on Civil Rights | committee appointed by Truman to investigate racial discrimination |
| Highway Act | money to create an interstate highway system nationally |
| Brown vs. Bd of Education | supreme court segregation in public schools is illegal |
| massive retaliation | threat to use nuclear weapons to stop communist agression |
| alliance fo progress | Kennedy's program of aid to promote economic dev. and democracy in Latin America |
| MoTown | first major record label owned by an African American |
| generation gap | dvision between older and young people |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's proposals for domestic and foreign policy |
| Apollo program | set up by NASA to prepare for a moon landing |
| pop art | used commonplace images to challenge the values of traditional art |
| National Traffic Motor Vehicle Safety Act | passed partly in response to Ralph Nader's book on Unsafe at any speed |
| Great Society | Johnson's 1965 program of reform and aid for Americans living in poverty |
| Bay of Pigs | coast of Cuba secretly trained by US tried to invade |
| counterculture | alternative culture against main society |
| Immigration and Nationality Act | new quotas for immigrants |
| flexible response | JFK policy of building up military forces and conventional weapons so more military options |
| Cuban missile crisis | military crisis when US naval ships blocked Cuba and almsot led to nuclear war |
| Sun Belt | movie in which James Dean played a teen who feels like an outcast because he cannot live up to othe rpeople's expectations of him |
| baby boom | large increase in the number of children born |
| MLK Jr. | leader of Montgomery Improvement Association |
| NASA | space research |
| Jackson Pollock | artists who developed action painting |
| covert operations | CIA did in Iran and Guatemala |
| Sputnik | first artificial satellite launched by Soviet Union |
| brinkmanship | the strategy to oppose communism by being willing to go to the edge of war |
| Suez Canal | nationalization of an important waterway |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's domestic and foreigh policy proposals |
| Warren Commission | set up to investigate the Kennedy assasination |
| Apollo program | NASA effort to put an American on the moon |
| flexible response | increaing military olptions by adding conventional weapons such as tanks |
| Andy Warhol | pop artist whose work included paintings of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe |
| Motown Records | first major record label owned by an Af. American |
| Mario Savio | led Univ. of California student free speech movement |
| Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | agreement to end aboveground testing of nuclear weapons |
| Alliance for Progress | aid program to encourage economic developemnt and democracy in Latin America |
| Woodstock | festival became a symbol of counterculture's idealistic spirit |
| hippies | those who experimented with different ways of living and dressed unconventionally |
| generation gap | young people rejected their parents values and beliefs |
