| A | B |
|---|
| NAFTA | Agreement that promoted free trade between US, Canada and Mexico (North American Free Trade Agreement) |
| Levittown | Nickname for the new suburbs that developed after WWII |
| Cesar Chavez | Represented Hispanic migrant workers |
| Silent Spring | book by Rachel Carson that helped start environmental movement |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks led this nonviolent protest against segregated buses |
| Civil Rights Act of 1965 | Act that made segregation illegal in all public areas & ended legal discrimination |
| Jackie Robinson | First African American to play baseball in Major Leagues |
| Social Security Act | Provided incomes (compensation) for retirees and aid to disabled |
| TVA Tennessee Valley Authority | Developed Tennessee Valley by building hydroelectric dams to produce electricity & control flooding |
| Tin Pan Alley | Part of New York City that became an important music center after WWI |
| Marshall Plan | The U.S. plan to aid countries to rebuild after World War II |
| Iron Curtain | boundary between free and Communist Europe during the Cold War |
| Bay of Pigs | failed CIA invasion that tried to remove Castro from power in Cuba |
| McCarthyism | describes intense anti-Communist suspicion in U.S. after WWII |
