post world war 2 Mrs. Hayes
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cold war | us vs ussr; a war of words |
| date of cold war | 1945- 1990 |
| containment policy | us would contain communism |
| berlin wall | wall to divid free and communist Berlin |
| united nations | son of league of nations; headcorterd in New York |
| communist china | china is communist |
| korean war dates | 1950- 1953 |
| Gen. MacArthur | American Gen. in charge of UN troops |
| Sen. McCathy | senator, very anti- communist |
| Khrushcvev | communist leader of USSR |
| Castro | Communist leader of cuba |
| bay of pigs | cuban refugees, try to over throw cuba, a failure |
| cuban missile crisis | ussr gave missiles to cuba, us put blockade around cuba, cuba won |
| pres. kennedy | pres in 60s |
| sputnic | 1st satellite put in space by ussr; lead to space race |
| vietnam war dates | 1964- 1973 |
| vietnam war | north vietnam comm. invated south vietnam non- comm.; us helps then leaves; vietnam is communist |
| vietcong | vietnames communist |
| guerrilla warfare | like snipers; sneak attacks; hit and run |
| doves | peace |
| hawks | war |
| johnson | us pres increased us solders pres after kennedy |
| nixon | us pres brings troops home pres in 70s |
| reagan | pres when cold war ended |
| berlin wall came down | non- communist germans tore down wall |
| fall of communism | fall of communism in eastern europe |
| eisenhower | pres in 50s |
| brown vs board of edu. | schools must intergrate |
| rosa parkes | mother of civil rights; would not move seats in bus |
| MLK JR. | beleaved in non- violence |
| "I have a Dream speech" | MLK famous speech |
| lee harvey osward | killed kennedy in 1963 |
| apollo 11 | landed on the moon |
| armstrong | 1st man on moon 1969 |
| watergate scandal | scandal over power |
| the almost impeachment of nixon | he resigned |
| gerald ford | pres after nixon |
| person gulf war date | 1991 |
| person gulf war | iraq invaded kuwait; us pushed iraq out, also called dessert storm |
| clintons impeachment | in the 90s found not guilty |
| pres election of 2000 | bush vs gore; one pf the most popular votes in history |
| saptember 11 2001 | terrest attack on wgtn pentgon and n.y citys twin towers |
| osama bin laden; al qaida | master mind of 911 |
| operation iraqi freedom date | 2003 |
| operation iraqi freedom | us invated iraq we thought they had wepons of mass distruction but did not find any |
| pres obama | president now 1st black president |
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