| A | B |
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| United Nations | World organization created to find peaceful resolutions in order to avoid needless wars |
| Marshall Plan | U.S. plan to financially assist European nations after World War II in order to rebuild |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | gave the president complete authority to conduct the Vietnam War as he saw fit |
| Neutrality Acts of 1935-37 | Passed by Congress to keep America out of World War II |
| Berlin Airlift | American efforts to fly needed supplies into an East German city after it was cut off by the Stalin |
| Truman Doctrine | U.S. policy stating that America would come to the aid of any country facing communist agressions. |
| Manhattan Project | U.S. code name for the program to build the atomic bomb |
| Navajo Code Talkers | develeoped an unbreakable code used in the Pacific by Native Americans |
| Social Security Act | New Deal program that provided old age pensions for Americans |
| Civilian Conservation Corp | New Deal program created to put young Americans to work during the Great Depression |
| Tennesse Valley Authority | New Deal program that brought jobs and electricity to the poorest region of the country |
| Federal Emergency Relief Adminstration | established by Hoover to aid states and businesses during the Great Depression |
| Dust Bowl | massive drought that swept across the Great Plains during the Great Depression. |
| Langston Hughes | African American poet who became famous during the Harlem Renaissnace |
| Duke Ellington | African American musician who became famous during the Harlem Renaissance |
| John Scopes | Biology teacher who was put on trial for teaching evolution in the 1920's |
