| A | B |
|---|
| Detente | policy devised by Nixson and Kissinger in dealing with the USSR and China |
| China | Nixon normalized relations with this country after a visit there in 1972 |
| Caesar Chavez | organized migrant farm workers into unions |
| James Earl Ray | accused of assassinating MLK |
| Sandra Day O'Conner | first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | founded by Martin Luther King Jr |
| Lyndon Johnson | asked Congress to approve the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of Communist Vietnam throughout 1960's |
| Newt Gingrich | Republican Speaker of the House who was a key part of the "contract with America" |
| "Stormin" Norman Schwartzkopf | leader of the American air assault on Iraq in 1991 as part of Desert Storm |
| General Manuel Noriega | leader of Panama who was overthrown in 1989 by U.S. troops |
| Nicaraugua | President Reagan backed Contras "freedom fighters" in this country who were opposing communism |
| Challenger | the space shuttle that exploded in 1989 killing all 7 on board |
| Taliban | militant extremist Islamic group led by Osama bin Laden |
| Great Society | LBJ's program to end poverty |
| Geraldine Ferraro | nominated by the Democrats to be Vice President, first woman ever on a major party ticket |
| John Dean III | President Nixon's lawyer to testified before the Senate Watergate Committee against Nixon |
| Muhhamed Reze Pahlavi | Shah of Iran who was supported by the U.S. and who caused the anger toward the US which led to the hostage crisis |
| Barry Goldwater | controversial and conservative U.S. Senator from Arizona who ran for president in 1964, but lost by a landslide |
| Betty Friedan | author of "The Feminine Mystique" which urged women to question the virtues of housework (domesticity) |
| Alfred Kinsey | wrote books about sexual behavior which led to an increase in promiscuity, venereal disease, illegitimate births and abortions |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | glasnost and perestroika were aimed at reviving the Soviet economy but ended up causing its collapse |
| Gerald Ford | became US VP in 1973 after being appointed, then became President after Nixon's resignation |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | controversial leader of South Vietnam who was killed in a coup by his own military |
| Television Debate 1960 | John Kennedy clearly out performed Nixon |
| Marshall Plan | followed the Truman Doctrine and helped rebuild Europe after WWII |
| Truman Doctrine | established in 1948 to stop the spread of communism in Greece and Turkey |
| NATO | organization created to extend the atomic shield to friends of the U.S. in 1949 |
| Emilio Aquinaldo | leader of a Filipino nationalist group who led an insurrection against Spanish rule and American occupation |
| Santiago, Cuba | place where the Spanish fleet was destroyed |
| Puerto Rico, Guam and Philippines | became U.S. possessions following the Spanish-American War |
| 17th Amendment | Direct election of Senators |
| 18th Amendment | prohibition of alcohol |
| muckrakers | primary function was to make the public aware of social problems |
| Upton Sinclair | author of "The Jungle" which facilitated the creation of the Federal Meat Inspectin Act |
| UBoats | German subs who targeted unarmed merchant and passenger vessels without warning in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany |
| Zimmerman | note that proposed a secret agreement between Germany and Mexico |
| Lenin | Communist revolutionary who led the revolt which overthrew the Czar |
| Henry Ford | made automobiles relatively affordable through the assembly line |
| Causes of the Great Depression | overproduction of crops, over extension of credit and lack of foreign trade |
| Calvin Coolidge | President who was honest, kind and frugal, but lacked strong leadership |
| Unemployment | most pressing problem FDR faced when he became president |
| Senator Huey Long | promised to give every family $5000 to solve the problems of the Great Depression |
| Court Packing Scheme | FDR proposed adding more members to the Supreme Court to get them to approve his New Deal policies |
| Ethiopia | invaded by fascist Italy |
| Czechoslovakia | invaded by fascist Germany |
| Spain | overthrown by fascist Franco |
| Containment | policy implemented by Truman in Korea |
| Munich Conference | Britain and France agreed to let Germany have Czechoslovakia in September 29, 1938 |
| Poland | September 1, 1939 Hitler's forces invaded |
| Nonaggression Pact | August 23, 1939 agreement between Germany and USSSR |
| Atomic Bomb | first used by U.S. to end WWII quickly |
| Internment Camps | used by the U.S. because of anti-Japanese prejudice fear in WWII |
| Brown v Board of Education | 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Case ending segregated schools |
| VJ Day | August 15, 1945 |
| VE Day | May 8, 1945 |
| DDay | June 6, 1944 |
