| A | B |
|---|
| Brown v. Board of Edu.1954 | Supreme Court Case that would end legal segregation or Jim Crow laws |
| Ministers | Key leaders, such as Martin L. King, in the civil rights movement |
| Operation Desert Storm | George Bush (sr.) successful mission of pushing Saddam Hussein back to Iraq and saving Kuwait in 1990 |
| Bull Connor | mean sheriff of Birmingham-used dogs, firehoses on demonstrators |
| Iron Curtain | term Churchill used to describe the east west division in Europe(between Commie and free nations) |
| China | A source of great fear;the largest nation turns communist in 1949 |
| Watts | LA Black neigborhood where first large scale riots and destruction occurred. |
| Freedom Summer | when thousands went into South to register African American to vote |
| Emmitt Till | 14 year old's death in South would 'galvanize' the Civil Rights movement |
| Bay of Pigs | 1961 fail CIA plan to recapture Cuba using ex-Cubans against Castro |
| U-2 | spy planes-spotted missiles being built in Cuba |
| MyLai | horrible incident where 400 S.Viet. villagers were killed by US Army soldiers |
| TET | 1968 all out offensive by VC and North Viet. Army on South Viet. |
| Containment Policy | policy of stopping Commies anywhere-to prevent the domino effect. |
| Berlin Wall | erected in 62, it's fall in 89 signalled end of Cold War |
| Reaganomics | term for Ronald Reagan's econo. plan of tax cuts and increased military spending |
| Dienbienphu | 1954 battle where France was defeated to end their occupation of Vietnam. |
| VietCong | Communists in South Vietnam-spied, sabotaged |
| Quarnentine | Naval blockade strategy used by JFK during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Pardon | Ford would use this be sure Nixon would not be tried, jailed for Watergate |
| China | Nixon would visit here and end a 20 year 'rift with this Commie Nation |
| Watergate | Nixon's coverup of a botched burglary of the Democratic National headquarters |
| Ralph Nader | Consumer Advocate-told public about unsafe cars |
| Camp David Accords | Carter's biggest success-Egypt's and Israel's leader would meet and start peace process |
| Hippies | counterculture young people of the 1960s-preached love(think Nelson in very long hair) |
| Pesticides | banned with help from Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' a plea to care for our environment |
| Khruschev | leader of Soviet Union-lost challenge to Kennedy in Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Glasnost | principle of 'openness' of Soviet leader Gorbachev-led to end of Cold War |
| Castro | Took over Cuba in 1960 revolution;major irritant of the US for 50 years. |
| Joe McCarthy | Wisconsin Senator and demagogue, led committee hearings to find Commies in US |
| Cold War | Build up of US and Soviet-hostilities that are just short of all-out war |
| Gerald Ford-76-7 | replaced Nixon then pardoned him of crimes; quieted the nation after Watergate, Vietnam |
| Jimmy Carter 77-81 | Camp David Peace Summit; hostages taken in Iran; boycotts 80 Olympics;Democrat |
| Richard Nixon-69-76-Rep | Watergate coverup; ends Vietnam after attacking Cambodia; opens ties w/ China |
| George Bush (Sr) Rep-89 | conducted Operation Desert Storm; Berlin Wall falls; loses to Clinton |
| Ronald Reagan-81-89; Rep | Optimistic ex-actor; promotes 'trickle down' economic; shot in assassination attempt; Iran Contra scandal |
| Bill Clinton-93-01-Dem | strong economy; first attacks from terrorists occurs; nearly impeached due to affair w/staffer |
| Dwight Eisenhower-53-61-Rep | ends Korean War; science/math push to match Commies; highway system;consumerism period;golf and heart attacks; ex.general |
| J.F.Kennedy-61-3-Dem | young,Catholic;Peace Corps and NASA; close to WWIII over Cuba |
| Lyndon Johnson-63-9-Dem | Civil and Voting Rights Acts;War on Poverty; escalates war w/combat troops |
| San Francisco | Hippy capital of the 60s-peace, love, and ask Mr. Nelson |
| Selma, Alabama | famous march to Selma; pushed voter registration |
| George Kennen | State Dept; came up with 'containment policy' against Commies using Truman Doc. and Marshall Plan |
| Little Rock, Ark | first challenge to segregated schools in the South; army needed to protect Black students |
| Boston | city in North that had race riot over forced integration |
| Chicago | 1968 Democratic Convention; rioting cost Humphrey the election vs. Nixon |
| George W.Bush | elicted in razor thin election 2001; commits troops to Iraq,Afghanistan; |
| George Kennen | creator of 'containment' idea to stop Commies everywhere-'domino theory'-led to Korea, Vietnam |
| Freedom riders | rode greyhounds down south to challenge Jim Crow Laws. |
