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| Spindletop | The first oil gusher in the United States. Drilled in Beaumont, TX |
| Dust Bowl | large area of the central plains states hit hard by drought during the 1930s. |
| Cold War | when two nations oppose each other but do night with armies. The USA and the U.S.S.R. were involved in the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1990s |
| rural | of or relating to country life or agriculture |
| "Do Your Bit" | slogan used on posters in Texas during World War I to convince people to help the war effort at home |
| Holocaust | The mass murder of over 6 millions Jews by the Nazi government in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s |
| GI Bill of Rights | law that provided federal funding to pay for the education of veterans of World War II |
| liberal | a person who is not strict in observance of traditional or established forms, ways, or beliefs |
| Neil Armstrong | the first American to walk on the moon |
| Tidelands Controversy | Texas claimed it should control the land offshore of its coastline. |
| law of supply and demand | the way the availability of a product effects the cost of that item |
| New Deal | federal program created by Franklin Roosevelt to solve problems of the Depression |
| John F Kennedy | president who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963 |
| Dwight Eisenhower | commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II. As president, supported the creation of the Interstate Highway System |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy and Japan |
| Allies | countries that fought the Axis Powers, including England, France, China the U.S.S.R. and the USA |
| Ku Klux Klan | Secret ogranization in southern states during the early 1900s that used violence to keep African-American from exercising their right to vote |
| Alphabet Agencies | groups created by FDR as part of the New Deal to provide jobs for millions of unemployed Americans during the depression |
| Communism | a political theory that includes the elimination of private property |
| Smith vs. Allwright, 1944 | Supreme Court ruled that an all-white primary election in Texas was illegal |
| Conservatives | a person who is strict in observance of traditional or established forms, ways, or beliefs. Believed that government assistance weakened people's ability to do things for themselves. |
| Lyndon B Johnson | Texan who became president after the assassination of John Kennedy. He was responsible for bringing NASA to Houston. |
| segregation | act of forcing people of certain races to live apart from people of other races |
| pardon | being excused from punishment |
| Harry Truman | became president after the death of Franklin Roosevelt. He was president during the last days of World War II |
| Franklin Roosevelt | President of the United States during the Great Depression and the first years of World War II. He died in the last days of the war. |
| ration | to limit food or goods to ensure adequate supplies to soldiers |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day invastion of Normandy, France |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | the act that brought the United States into World War II |
| Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas | Supreme court ruled that racial segregation of schools was illegal |
| Sweatt vs. Painter | ruled that the University of Texas could not exclude Herman Sweatt from its law school only because of his race |
| Interstate Highway System | system of North-South and East-West roads built with state and federal funds that allowed motorists to driver faster and safer than previous highways and goods to be delived faster throughout the country |
| Red Scare | fears about the rising threat of communism that lead to the limiting of some individual rights including, freedom of speech, the press and peaceable assembly |
| urban | of or relating to the city or city life |
| veto | power or authority to reject or cancel a vote |
| Lend-Lease Act | program in which the U.S. lent military equipment to the Allies |
| armies of occupation | a military force that remains in a conquered land |
| strike | refusal to work as protest against an employer |
| mural | artwork applied to a wall |
| wildcatter | a person who drills in territory not known to contain oil |
