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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sputnik | The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. |
| Civil Rights movement | a social movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, in which people organized to demand equal rights for African Americans and other minorities. People worked together to change unfair laws. They gave speeches, marched in the streets, and participated in boycotts. |
| baby boom | increased birthrate in the US during the late 40s and 50s |
| William Levitt | Created Levittown -- the first "cookie cutter" suburb -- was an American real estate dealer. His innovations of providing affordable housing popularized the type of planned community building later known as suburbia. |
| Rosa Parks | United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913) |
| Jonas Sulk | came up with a vaccine for Polio |
| members of the united nations | was originally started by 51 founding members |
| Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO; under this alliance, the su demanded complete loyalty from its Warsaw pact neighbors |
| Fair Deal | Truman's extension of the New Deal that increased min wage, expanded Social Security, and constructed low-income housing |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
| Berlin Blockade | The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift. |
| What happened because of the Chinese Civil WAr? | china was divided into two countries |
| Korean WAr | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. |
| What economic problems did we face after WW2? | our prices rose by about 1/3 and goods became very scarce |
| result of the baby boom | many people moved into suburbs; cars and highways also became more important to people. |
| Martin Luther King JR | black leader who used civil disobedience |
| Brown vs. Board of education | 1954- court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. |
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