| A | B |
|---|
| Harry Truman | President that ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Mao Zedong | leader of Communist China |
| Rosa Parks | started the Montgomery bus boycott |
| Alger Hiss | HUAC charged him with passing military secrets |
| Jackie Robinson | first baseball African American to play in the Major Leagues 1947 |
| General Mac Authur | WWII General fired for disobeying President in role of "Commander in Chief" of the armed services |
| Thomas Dewey | ran against Truman in the 1948 election |
| Joseph McCarthy | believed in defending America against "Communist" threat |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of USSR/Russia in the beginning of the Cold War |
| Martin Luther King | leader of the Civil Rights movement |
| Korea | country divided at the 38th parallel |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency started under |
| Civil Rights | protection of individual freedoms under the law |
| Cold War | a conflict between countries with no actual fighting |
| space race | competition to be first to explore space |
| summit meeting | meeting between important leaders of nations |
| superpower | Soviet Union and US in the cold war |
| refugee | a person who flees to a foreign country for safety |
| baby boom | increase in birth rate after WWII |
| demilitarization | buffer zone between North and South Korea with not military allowed |
| Red Scare | fear of communism in the United States |
| satellite | a nation controlled by another |
| generations gap | difference between tastes and values between young and old people |
| suburb | community at the edge of a city |
| iron curtain | a barrier of secrecy that kept Soviet controlled nations apart from the rest of Europe |
| containment | policy of preventing a country from expanding its power...as in communism in the Cold War |
| McCarthyism | the practice of publicly accusing people of political disloyalty |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| Berlin Airlift | getting supplies to Berlin when it was under siege |
| Truman Doctrine | policy to help countries under the threat of communism |
| Warsaw Pact | alliance of communist countries formed in reaction to NATO |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance between several non communist nations |
| Marshall Plan | economic plan to bring economic recovery to battered European countries |
