| A | B |
|---|
| Iran Hostage Crisis | late 1970s … 52 Americans taken hostage for 444 days in Iran … helped lead to the defeat of President Jimmy Carter when he ran for re-election in 1980 |
| Iron Curtain | part of the Cold War .. A physical barrier .. Fences, mine fields, guard towers .. To keep Eastern Europeans from escaping to the West |
| Iron Curtain | a defensive barrier which kept people in communist eastern Europe from escaping to the West |
| JFK | President of the United States in the early 1960s .. The youngest person to be elected to the Presidency |
| Jimmy Carter | 39th President of the United States .. [1977 - 1980] .. Former Governor of Georgia .. Brought Israel & Egypt together [Camp David Accords] .. Failed in re-election bid .. Largely due to Iran hostage crisis |
| KGB | Soviet Secret Police |
| Khrushchev | leader of USSR - 1950s & early 1960s - tried put missiles in Cuba |
| LBJ | succeeded President Kennedy in the early 1960s … escalated (increased) US involvement in Vietnam |
| March on Washington | part of the Civil Rights Movement .. At the end of it (the March) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his now famous "I have a dream" speech |
| Mass Retaliation | nuke warfare |
| Medicare | health care for the elderly |
| Multinational Corporations | large companies which conduct business around the globe |
| NAACP | fought to end segregation … National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| New Frontier | President Kennedy's domestic programs |
| NOW | National Organization of Women .. Demanded greater equality for women in education and in jobs |
| Nuclear Annihilation | destroying the world |
| Nuclear Proliferation | constantly increasing the size of nuclear weapons .. They're never good enough |
| pardon | to forgive |
| Peace Corps | Americans helping people of other nations .. Created by JFK |
| PLO | Palestine Liberation Organization |
