| A | B |
|---|
| Enlightenment | a time of new ideas; natural laws govern human nature |
| Industrialization | change from agrarian to factory based economy |
| Imperialism | gaining territory for colonies and markets |
| World War I | U.S. enters in 1917; Ends with Versailles Treaty |
| World War II | Allies fight the Nazis, Italy, and Japan |
| League of Nations | World organization founded after WWI |
| United Nations | World organization founded after WWII |
| Zimmermann Note | Germany asks Mexico to fight against the U.S. (WWI) |
| Lusitania | British ship sunk by Germans with Americans on board (WWI) |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's post-war plan to achieve peace without victory (WWI) |
| Pearl Harbor | Reason for U.S. entry into WWII |
| Berlin Airlift | Allies fly supplies to democratic area in Germany |
| NATO | Post WWII alliance of non-communist countries |
| Warsaw Pact | Post WWII alliance of communist countries |
| Marshall Plan | U.S. aid to Post WWII western Europe |
| Japan | Country on which the first atomic bombs were dropped |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet leader during WWII era |
| Franklin Roosevelt | U.S. President during WWII era |
| Winston Churchill | British leader during WWII era |
| domino theory | cold war idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will too |
| Israel | country formed in Palestine post WWII |
| arms race | nuclear weapons competition between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. |
| Missile Crisis | Soviets build bases in Cuba and plan to aim weapons at the U.S. |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader whose policies of opennes and restructuring lead to the end of communism |
| ethnic strife | problems between different racial/cultural groups in a country |
| "police action"" | name for Korean War |
| containment | U.S. policy of keeping communism from spreading |
| Vietnam | Southeast Asian country; war here to prevent spread of communism |
| Holocaust | genocide which led to the creation of the nation of Israel |
| New Deal | Roosevelt's plan to end the Depression |
| Great Depression | Period of sever economic troubles during the 1930's |
| Harlem Renaissance | Rebirth of African-American culture during the 1920's |
| counterculture | hippie culture of the 1960's |
| McCarthyism | A Senator's witch hunt for communists in the U.S. (1950's) |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Prohibited segregation in businesses engaging in interstate commerce |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Provided federal registrars if a majority were being denied the right to vote |
| 19th Amendment | Gave women the right to vote (1920) |
| 14th Amendment | Guarantees due process of the law regardless of race,or gender |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case: separate but equal |
| Brown v. Bd. of Education | Supreme Court case: separate is inherently not equal |
| John Glenn | first American to orbit the earth |
| Alan Shepard | first American in space |
| Neil Armstrong | first man to walk on the moon |
| Warren G. Harding | first president elected after women could vote (1920) |
| 18th Amendment | prohibited the production and sale of alcohol |
| Migration in the 1920's | African-Americans move to northern cities to get jobs |
| underconsumption | people cannot afford to buy all the businesses produce (1920") |
| on margin | buying stocks with "borrowed" money |
| stock market crash | 1929 economic catastrophe |
