| A | B |
|---|
| Douglas MacArthur | in charge of occupied Japan after World War II |
| Chiang Kai-shek | leader of the Chinese Nationalists |
| demilitarized zone | border between North Korea and South Korea |
| Cold War | era of confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union |
| NASA | created out of fear that the nation was falling behind in scientific research |
| brinkmanship | threatening nuclear strikes to back down opponents |
| CIA | operated in developing countries to overthrow anti-American leaders |
| Warsaw Pact | military alliance in Eastern Europe |
| Strom Thurmond | Dixiecrat Party candidate for president in 1948 |
| Richard Nixon | Eisenhower’s vice president |
| Jonas Salk | developed an injectable vaccine for polio |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | minister whose vision and nonviolent methods helped the civil rights movement transform American society |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP’s chief counsel |
| Malcolm X | symbol of the black power movement |
| Sweatt vs. Painter | state law schools had to admit qualified African American applicants even if parallel black law schools existed |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | segregation in public schools was unconstitutional |
| Norris vs. Alabama | exclusion of African Americans from juries violated their right to equal protection under the law |
| Morgan vs. Virginia | segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional |
| Memphis, Tennessee | assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Montgomery, Alabama | successful bus boycott |
| Selma, Alabama | “march for freedom” in which state troopers and deputized citizens brutally attacked marchers in full view of television |
| Birmingham, Alabama | violence against demonstrators, viewed by millions on television, that prompted Kennedy to prepare a new civil rights bill |
