| A | B |
|---|
| G.I Bill | provided soldiers with free college education |
| Baby Boomer | a person born between 1946-1964 |
| Suburb | a residential area outside a city |
| Flannery O'Connor | best known writer from G.A |
| Carson McCullers | created the writing style called "Southern Gothic" |
| Cold War | state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the U.S and the Soviet Union |
| Nuclear Arms Race | the competition for atomic weapons between the Soviet Union and the U.S |
| Iron Curtains | a term coined by the Soviet Union's policy of shutting out the rest of the world |
| Containment | the foregign policy of the U.S, that aimed at stopping the spread of communism |
| Joseph R. McCarthy | he conducted hearings to expose communists in the government |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | the Soviet Union and the U.S almost went to war because the Soviets had placed nuclear missiles in cuba |
| Operation Dixie | the name given to the effort by the Congress of Industrial Organizations to set up unions in the south |
| Lake Sidney Lanier | a lake created in GA in the 1950s to supply the Atlanta area with water |
| Helen Douglas Mankin | first woman to represent Ga. in the US Senate |
| Carl Sanders | promised to reform state government |
| Richard B. Russell Jr. | Served 38 years in US Senate, opposed desegregation |
| Carl Vinson | Served 50 years in the US House, supported expansion of military, won presidental medal of freedom |
| Marshall Plan | helped defeated European countries rebuild |
| Korean Conflict | When US attempted to stop the invasion of S.Korea |
| Brown v. Board of Education | ruled segregation in public schools was unconstitutional |
| John F. Kennedy | President in 1960 during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Berlin Wall | The wall that divided East and West Berlin |
| Eugene Talmadge | ran for governor in 1946 on a platform of white supremacy |
| County Unit System | gave control of Ga's political system to small counties |
