| A | B |
|---|
| Fidel Castro | Leader of Cuba since 1959 |
| U-2 | spy plane that spied on Russia |
| Cold War | silent war between the US and the Russians, blocked each others military goals |
| Yalta Caonfrence | Confrence with the Big Three |
| Big Three | U.S., France, Great Britain, France |
| D-Day | The largest land, air, sea invasion in history. (took place at Normandy) |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of Russia, communist broke Hitler's non-aggression pact |
| Holocaust | killing of Jews, about 6,000,000 people killed |
| Main Inventor of the Atomic Bomb | J. Robert Oppeheimer |
| First territory lost by Japan in WWII | Guadalcanal |
| Former Virginia Governor against the Constitution | Patrick Henry |
| Former Virginia Governor in favor of the Constittution | Edmond Randolph |
| State Governments | formed in late 1770's |
| Dred Scott Case | Dred Scott thought he should be free because they lived with a former master in Wisconsin |
| Ruling on Dred Scott Case | found them to be enslaved |
| Underground Railroad | system of houses where slaves stayed as the escaped north |
| Eli Whitney | invents cotton gin in 1793 |
| 13th Amendment | slavery is not allowed in the US |
| 14th Amendment | blacks given citizenship |
| Modern Weapons first successfully used in the Civil War | Gatling gun, rapid fire rifles, submarines (manpowered), ironclad warships, hot air balloons, mines, telegraphs, fieldhospitals, scorched earth policy |
| African Americans migrated here to start new lives | Kansas |
| Johnson's Plan for reconstruction | restoring relations with the Confederate States |
| Lincoln's Plan for reconstruction | wanted to establish state governments |
| Invisible empire | used violence and intimidation and had understood ways of discriminating blacks |
| Advantages for the South in the Civil War | more people, factories in the north, railroads, better Navy, more raw materials, more power |
| Advantages for the North in the Civil War | more experienced generals, cotton, fought on their own land |
