| A | B |
|---|
| Bonus Army | WW 1 vets who wanted early bonus |
| New Deal | goals were: relief, recovery, reform |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | paid farmers not to grow crops |
| Bank Holiday | FDR closed banks trying to stop bank crisis |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | helped young men get jobs; worked planting trees, flood programs, etc. |
| Court Packing | FDR's answer to having his programs declared unconstitutional, he wanted more Supreme Court justices |
| dictators | economic problems in the 1920s and 1930s helped them come to power |
| island hopping | tactic used in WW 2 to defeat Japan |
| D-Day | invasion of Normandy, France |
| Africa | invaded first by Allied troops on way to invasion of Italy |
| Nuremberg Trials | held to find and punish for war crimes in WW2 |
| Truman Doctrine | part of containment policy, helped Greece and Turkey after WW 2 |
| Marshall Plan | part of containment policy, gave aid to Western Europe |
| United Nations forces | sent to Korea to stop invasion of North Korea into South Korea |
| Berlin Wall | built by East German to prevent people leaving for freedom in West Berlin |
| 24th Amendment | end of poll taxes |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | end of segretation in public places |
| baby boomers | resulted in a huge number of new schools being built |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | face to face crisis between U.S. and USSR, in the end avoided nuclear war |
| civil disobedience | used by Dr. King, Jr. in civil rights movement, examples are sit-ins and marches |
| Bay of Pigs | failed invasion of Cuba |
| Red Scare | time of great fear in U.S. belief that communists were "everywhere" in our government |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | allowed federal government to be involved in enforcing voting rights in local elections |
| Domino Theory | belief that if one country falls to communism others will, led to US involvement in Vietnam |
| Warsaw Pact | organized as an alliance of Eastern European countries |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization-NATO | organized alliance of Western countries |
| United Nations | set up in 1945 to solve conflicts between nations |
| Brown v. Board of Education Topeka | Supreme Court ruled seperate is never equal |
| containment | US policy trying to stop spread of communism throughout the world |
| Berlin airlift | response to Stalin's blocking of travel by train or highway |
