| A | B |
| Winston Churchill | England's Prime Minister |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Located in Poland |
| Rationing | helped make sure people got food |
| Orson Welles movie | Citizen Kane |
| Casablanca | World War II movie released in 1942 |
| Dialysis Machine | cleans the blood so that the kidneys function properly |
| Nagasaki and Hiroshima | two cities in Japan where the United States dropped the Atomic Bomb |
| concentrations camps | a place where the Nazis held, mistreated and killed the Jewish people |
| Chuck Yeager | first man to fly a plane faster than the speed of sound |
| Mahatma Gandhi | fighter of India's Indpendance |
| Charles M. Schulz | creater of the cartoon Peanuts that was released in 1950 |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | accused US citizens of being communists |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | executed by the United States for being suspected spies |
| Dr. Jonas E. Salk | developed the polia vaccination |
| James Dean | actor/teen hero that died in a car crash |
| Sputnik | a satelite sent into orbit by the Russians |
| Little Rock Central High School | became desegregated in 1957 |
| Population Registration Act | allows tracking of the black people living in South Africa |
| Fidel Castro | leader of Cuba since 1959 |
| Marilyn Monroe | 1950's female movie star |