| A | B |
| aggression | action by one country to attack or invade another |
| draft | a law requiring civilians to join the military |
| embargo | ban on trade, commerce, or assistance to a country |
| inflation | a period of rapidly rising prices and interest rates |
| runoff | an election between the top two candidates when no one has received a majority of votes |
| George Busbee | governor who pushed for state-funded kindergarten in public schools |
| Julian Bond | state legislator who was refused his seat in the General Assembly because of his opposition to the Vietnam War |
| Newt Gringrich | Georgia who became speaker of the House of Representatives in 1995 |
| Joe Frank Harris | governor who raised the state sales tax to 4 percent and created QBE |
| Maynard Jackson | first African American mayor of Atlanta |
| Cynthia McKinney | first African American woman elected to Congress from Georgia |
| Zell Miller | governor who supported the lottery, increases in teacher salaries, and the elimination of state sales tax on food |
| Sam Nunn | senator from Georgia from 1972 to 1996 who served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee |
| Dean Rusk | Georgia who served as the U.S. Secretary of State under presidents Kennedy and Johnson |
| Richard Russell | Georgia senator who originally opposed U.S. military in involvement in Vietnam |
| Fletcher Thompson | first Republican congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction |
| Andrew Young | Georgia who became the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |