| A | B |
|---|
| Anti-Semitism | Discrimation and negative sentiments toward Jews |
| Mein Kampf | Philosophy book by Hitler |
| Decade Hitler rose to power | 1930's |
| Axis Powers | Italy, Germany, Japan |
| Lend Lease Act of 1941 | Provided non-Axis countries with loans for arms |
| Doctor Mengele | Man who decided whether prisoners would live or die during the Holocaust |
| Capitalism and communism | At the heart of the Cold War |
| Baruch Plan | International plan against communism |
| 38th parallel divides which two countries? | North and South Korea |
| People who moved into the suburbs in the 1950's | Rich whites |
| Kim Il-Sung | Dictator of North Korea |
| Year of Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 |
| Year of Brown v. Board | 1952 |
| Elizabeth Eckford | One of the Little Rock Nine |
| Freedom Summer | African American voter mobilization |
| Emmet Till | His death spurred a nation into action |
| Woodstock | Peak of 1960's counterculture movement |
| Doves | Anti-Vietnam War Americans |
| Number of students killed at Kent State | 4 |
| Year of Vietnam War Cease-Fire | 1972 |
| Place of first atomic bomb used | Hiroshima |
| War with highest death toll | WWII |
| Primary actor in Rebel Without a Cause | James Dean |
| Ron Kovic | Vietnam veteran who wrote "Born on the Fourth of July" |
| Book that inspired 1950's women | The Feminine Mystique |
| Nation Nixon invaded to help U.S. win the Vietnam War | Cambodia |
| Youngest American president | JFK |
| Internment | Imprisonment |
| City of Rosa Parks' bus boycott | Montgomery |
| Social history | History of social movements, culture, race, gender, etc. |
| Good Neighbor policy | Increased U.S. control over Latin America |
| The day Pearl Harbor was attacked | December 7, 1941 |
| Barefoot Gen | Cartoon about a boy on the day Hiroshima was bombed |
| Suicide | How Hitler died |
| Truman | Made the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima |
| Number of Jews that died in Holocaust | 6 million |
| "Day that will live in infamy" | Pearl Harbor was bombed |
| Containment | The resistance to communism |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist resistance leader of Vietnam |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazi war crimes punished |
| Chiang Kai Shek | Chinese Communist Party leader in 1930s |
| 38th Parallel | Line separating North and South Korea |
| Hollywood Ten | Suspected communist actors banned from Hollywood |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | Gave President the power to declare war |
| Ralph Ellison | Wrote "The Invisible Man" |
| Buddhists | Persecuted by Diem & burned themselves in protest |
| Gloria Steinem | Founder of National Organization for Women |
| Le Ly Haislip | Vietnamese peasant who were tortured by Americans & Vietcong |
| Andy Warhol | Famous pop art artist |
| Hawks | Vietnam War advocates |
| Doves | Vietnam War opponents |
| Vietnamization | Turned fighting over to South Vietnamese |
| Kent State | School where 4 college students were killed for protesting thr war |
| Domino Theory | Theory that if one nation fell to communism, all would |
| 2/3 | Ratio of European jews killed in Holocaust |
| Superpowers | the U.S. and Soviet Union after WWII |
| Primary source | a first hand account of or artifact |
| Secondary source | Account that is second hand |
| Allen Ginsberg | Beat poet who wrote "Supermarket in California" |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Overturned by Brown vs. Board |
| Peace Corps | Sent volunteers to work in developing countries for two years |
| West coast | In the 1940s, most Japanese Americans lived here |
| Japanese American Internment | Occurred after the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| Social History | History of people and society |
| Political History | the only history studied in textbooks until recently |
| Charles Van Doren | Lied to the American public as a quiz show contestant in the 1950s |
