| A | B |
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Containment,  | US policy of stopping spread of communism |
The Cold War,  | Political, economic and ideological confrontation between USA and Soviets |
The United Nations,  | World organization created to keep world peace |
NATO,  | Military alliance to prevent Soviet invasion of Western Europe |
Warsaw Pact,  | Defensive alliance of Eastern European communist states |
Joseph McCarthy,  | Claimed there were communists in the US government and military |
the Rosenbergs,  | Executed for giving nuclear secrets to Soviets |
Alger Hiss,  | Accused of giving state department secrets to Soviets |
Massive Retaliation,  | Eisenhower policy to use nuclear weapons if attacked |
Brown v. Board of Education,  | Segregated schools are unconstitutional |
Civil Rights Act 1964,  | Banned discrimination in public places |
Voting Rights Act,  | made illegal the use of literacy tests |
Watergate,  | President Nixon resigned as a result of this scandal |
Fidel Castro,  | Led communist revolution in Cuba |
Cuban Missile Crisis,  | Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba nearly led to war |
Vietnamization,  | Policy of Nixon to withdraw US troops from Vietnam |
President Nixon,  | The first President to visit communist China |
John Glenn,  | First American to orbit the Earth |
Neil Armstrong,  | "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." |
Massive Resistance,  | VA public schools closed and private academies opened in protest to desegregation |
College Campuses,  | Where opposition to Vietnam war was greatest |
Martin Luther King,  | Gave I have a Dream Speech |
March on Washington,  | Raised support for Civil Rights legislation in Congress |
Dallas, Texas,  | Where President Kennedy was assassinated |
Ronald Reagan,  | Confronted Soviets with military buildup and said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" |
Reagan Revolution,  | Policy of lower taxes, fewer regulations and fewer Federal government programs |
Sandra D O'Connor,  | First female justice to the Supreme Court |
Telecommuting,  | working from home with Internet, Fax or phone |
Sally Ride,  | First American woman in space |
President Kennedy,  | "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." |
China,  | the fall of this country to communist increased fears in the USA |
The Soviet Union,  | based on totalitarian and communist system |
The United States,  | Country of individual liberty and free markets |
Korean War,  | Began when the communist north invaded the south |
Germany,  | Divided between communist east and democratic west after WWII |
Japan,  | occupied by the USA after WWII & adopted democratic constitution |
The Marshall Plan,  | US aid plan to help Europe recovery after WWII |
Bomb shelters,  | US government urged citizens to build these in their backyard |
Duck & Cover,  | Children in schools practiced this in case of nuclear attack |
Pentagon,  | US military Headquarters in Northern VA that benefits the VA economy |
Hampton Roads,  | Major US naval and air base that benefits the VA economy |
Bay of Pigs,  | Where Cuban exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro but failed |
Thurgood Marshall & Oliver Hill,  | NAACP lawyers in school desegregation cases |
Fall of Saigon,  | South Vietnam fell to communist North Vietnam in 1975 |
Vietnam War,  | US troops repeatedly North Vietnamese troops but could not win the war |
Vietnam Veterans,  | faced indifference or hostility when they came home (unlike WWII) |
Mikhail Gorbachev,  | Soviet leader that offered Glasnost (openess) and Perestroika (econ. Reform) |
Lyndon Johnson,  | President that signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts |
