| A | B |
|---|
| Red Scare | 1950s and 1960s fear of communism, McCarthism |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Gave power to federal government to pressure local governments to register African American voters |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | U.S. blockaded island and when it was finished avoided nuclear war with Soviet Union |
| United Nations | Organized to solve international problems |
| Bay of Pigs | failed invasion of Cuba by U.S. trained Cuban exiles |
| civil disodedience | used by Dr. King in civil rights movement |
| Berlin Wall | built to keep people from escaping East Berlin and East Germany |
| baby boomers | large number of schools as a result of large numbers |
| Truman Doctrine | helped Greece and Turkey after WW2 |
| Marshall Plan | helped European nations rebuilt at end of WW2 and not take communist help |
| 24th Amendment | ended poll taxes to vote |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | prohibited segregation in public places |
| Domino Theory | belief that if communism occured in one nation others would fall to communism |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | New Deal program paid farmers not to grow crops |
| Public Works Administration | New Deal program built many public buildings |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | New Deal program that gave jobs to young men in programs that planted trees, stopped floods, etc. |
| Bonus Army | WW 1 veterans that wanted the gov't to pay them their promised bonus early since they were unempoyed during the depression |
| New Deal | Franklin Roosevelt's program to end the Great Depression |
| Bank Holiday | FDR closed all the banks and only allowed the "healthy" ones to reopen |
| island hopping | tactic used by Allied forces to capture some Pacific island and skip others on their way to capture Japan |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of Normandy, France; freed France of Nazi control |
| North Africa | invaded by Allied forces on their way to Italy |
| Nuremberg trials | held at the end of WW2 to punish convicted war criminals |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | declared war on poverty; esclated war in Vietnam |
| Richard Nixon | visited China, Vietnamization policy, Watergate scandal |
| John Kennedy | Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, challenged U.S. to go to moon |
| Gerald Ford | brought troops home from Vietnam, not elected to office |
| Jimmy Carter | inflation, Camp David Accord with Isreal and Egypt |
| Ronald Reagan | increased military, Iran Contra scandal |
| George H. Bush | Persian Gulf War |
