| A | B |
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| Elvis | King of Rock N Roll |
| Rock N Roll | Music of the 1950's created by Afr-Americans, made famous by Elvis, loved by teens |
| Conformity | Means everything is the same, you are trying to fit in. |
| Television | Invention that replaced the radio as the means of entertainment for the family |
| Segregation | Legal Separation of the Races |
| Sit-ins | Non-violent strategy when people sat down and refuse to leave until needs are met |
| March on Washington | 250,000 people protesting for Civil Rights Act, where MLK Jr. gave his speech |
| Selma | After the march at this city, the Voting Rights Act. |
| Birmingham | Most segregated city in the South, where children marched & were attacked by police |
| Freedom Rides | When black & white college students rode on buses in South to protest segregation |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Most famous Civil Rights leader, was assassinated, gave "I Have A Dream" speech |
| Little Rock | Where Pres. Eisenhower sent troops to protect 9 black students at school |
| Malcolm X | 2nd most famous Civil Rights leader, believed people should use force if attacked |
| Civil Rights Act | Made it illegal to discriminate on basis of color race, ethnicity or creed |
| Voting Rights Act | Made it illegal to deny people the right to vote |
| JFK | President who was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | When Soviets placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to scare the US |
| Vietnam War | The only war that the US lost-War that lasted 10 years |
| Thurgood Marshall | Attorney for the Brown v. Board case & 1st Af-Am to be placed on the SC |
| President Johnson (LBJ) | President after JFK, began Vietnam war |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Document that allowed US to join Vietnam war |
| Nixon | President at end of Vietnam war, only president to resign |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Led by MLK Jr. when Afr-Am refused to ride buses as a protest |
| Rosa Parks | Refused to move from bus seat |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | Supreme Court decision that reversed Plessy-Ferg, Made Separate but equal unconstitutional. |
| NATO | Military Alliance after WWII aimed at stopping the spread of communism |
| Korean War | War fought after WWII to stop the spread of communism in Asia, we didn't win or lose |
| Nonviolent resistance | Using peaceful protest strategies to achieve social & political change |
| Cold War | Competition btwn US & USSR for global control |
| Communism | Economic & political idea where the government controls the economy & all way of life |
| McCarthyism | When Americans were scared of being labeled as a communist |
| Stokely Carmichael | He believed in Black Power & black pride, didn't want whites to help blacks |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that said that segregation is legal as long as it is separate but equal |
| Jim Crow Laws | Nickname for the segregation laws of the south |
| Black Power | Idea that African-Americans do not need whites to help them getting equality |
| Black Panthers | Blacks who believed that blacks should protect themselves |
| Agent Orange | Chemical sprayed on the jungle to killed the plants so the US could find the Vietnamese |
| Doves | Those that opposed the war & favored peace |
| Draft | When the government picks you to be a soldier-you have no choice |
| Hawks | Those who supported the war in Vietnam |
| Kent State | College were 4 students were killed during a protest |
| Napalm | Gasoline bombs that are used to set an area on fire |
| Pentagon Papers | Newspaper articles that made the U.S. look bad |
| Search & Destroy | Strategy the US army used to defeat the Vietnamese |
| Tet Offensive | Surprise attack by the N. Vietnamese & VC on US bases & S. Vietnamese cities |
| Viet Cong | Communists in S. Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | Plan to use the S. Vietnamese to fight the rest of the war |
| Body Count | Method used by the US to keep track of the number of VC they killed |
| Containment | When the US tried to stop the spread of communism |
| Berlin Airlift | When US & British flew in supplies to West Berlin |
| Berlin Wall | Symbol of the Cold War, divided the capital city of Germany |
| Domino Theory | Idea that if one country falls to communism, the rest will |
| Iron Curtain | Symbol of the division between the Soviets & the West |
| United Nations | World organization created to try to achieve peace |
| Marshall Plan | US plan to rebuild Europe after WWII, we spent millions |
| Satellite Nations | Countries controlled by the Soviets, they surrounded the Soviet Union |
| Truman Doctrine | US plan to stop the spread of communism by giving them $$$ |
| Consumerism | Idea that you can be happy if you buy the right things |
| Baby Boom | When millions of Americans were born after WWII |
| Franchise | Chain of businesses that offer the same goods & services, usually restaurants |
| Rosenbergs | Spies from Russia that were killed |
| Rat Pack | Group of performers not conforming to 1950's values, liked to party, drink, smoke |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | He assassinated JFK in Dallas, TX |
| Election of 1960 | When JFK beat Nixon in the election, 1st time presidents debated on TV |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | When the US invaded Cuba to try to get rid of Castro |
| Peace Corps | Organization created by JFK to help the world's poor |
| Woodstock | Large 3-day outdoor rock n roll concert |
| Great Society | LBJ's plan to help out the poor & minorities during the '60's |
| Medicaid & Medicare | Health insurance plans for the elderly & children |
| Miranda v. Arizona | Supreme Court case that said that police must read you your rights |
| New Frontier | JFK's plan to lead the country during the Cold War |
| Warren Commission | Official report saying that Oswald killed JFK by himself |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | Two cities that the US dropped atomic bombs on |
| Radiation | The byproduct of a nuclear explosion-causes cancer |
| Nuclear Reaction | When two atoms are either broken apart or fused together |
| Fat Man & Little Boy | Nicknames for the two atomic bombs |
| Manhattan Project | Code name for the plan to build the atomic bombs |
