A | B |
WWII | Dictators threaten the world |
Cold War | Containment of Communism & Arms Race |
Post War Boom 1946-59 | Baby Boom, Suburban & Auto culture |
New Frontier | Space Race-Kennedy |
Great Society | Social Welfare, Civil Rights |
Civil Rights Movement | Desegregation, Urban riots |
Vietnam War Years | US vs. Communism |
McCarthyism | Trials looking for communist in USA |
Roosevelt | Led USA through most of WWII |
Eisenhower | General, Pres. Interstate High Act |
Kennedy | Assassinated by Oswald |
Nixon | Ended US's part in Vietnam |
Reagan | Ended Cold War |
Kennedy's first days in office | Cuban Missle Crisis |
Truman | Fair Deal |
Ford | Pardoned Richard Nixon for Watergate |
Johnson | Civil & Voting Rights Act |
Nixon's end | Resigned as President |
Truman | Marshall Plan and Korean War |
Reagan Economics | Reaganomics |
Truman's decision | Drop the Atomic Bomb |
Carter | Iranian Hostage Crisis |
Kennedy's Era | New Frontier |
Eisenhower & Civil Rights | Little Rock Nine |
Nixon's words | "I am not a crook" |
Johnson's Era | Great Society |
Roosevelt famous speech line | "A day which will live in infamy..." |
Truman fired | General MacArthur |
Truman Civil Rights | Desegregated US military |
Kennedy's Volunteer Program | Peace Corp |
Mussolini | Facist dictator of Italy WWII |
Chavez | Mexican American -United Farm Workers Union |
Zedong | Chinese Communist Leader |
John Glenn | 1st USA man to orbit the earth |
Kennedy crisis | Bay of Pigs Invasion |
Roosevelt's term | Elected 4 times WWII President |
Truman's legacy | Atomic Bomb, NATO, Korean War |
Friedan | Founded National Organization for Women |
Stalin | Dictator of Soviet Union WWii |
Jimmy Carter | Camp David Accords, Panama Canal Treaty |
Habitats for Humanity | Carter's human rights group |
McCarthy | Accused Americans of being Communist |
Rommel | Led WWII German Afrika Korps |
MacArthur | Pacific Commander WWII |
Castro | Communist dictator in Cuba |
Rosa Parks | Her arrest set off Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Churchill | Prim Minister of Great Britain WWII |
"Iron Curtain" | Term coined by Churchill for Berlin wall |
Pershing | hunted Pancho Villa until WWII broke out |
Eisenhower | Allied Commander in WWII led D-Day |
Nixon's accomplishments | Visited China, SALT |
Lyndon Baines Johnson | Great Society, War on Poverty, Civil Right, Vietnam |
Hitler | Communist leader of Nazi Germany WWII |
Sandra Day O'Connor | First Woman Supreme Court Justice |
Minh | Communist leader of N. Vietnam |
M.L.King | Non-violent civil rights leader |
MLK's famous speech | "I Have a Dream" |
Neil Armstrong | First US astronaut on the moon |