| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Martin Luther King Jr. | A leader in the Civil Rights movements |
| Harry Truman | Became President when FDR died in 1944 |
| Jackie Robison | The first black baseball player, integrated major league baseball |
| Branch Rickey | The manager of Brooklyn Dodgers who signed Jackie Robison |
| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of Russia who killed many of his own people |
| Iron Curtain | Separated communist Europe from non-communist Europe(imaginary) |
| Marshall Plan | It sent money to Europe to help troops recover from WW2 |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenburg | Were convicted of atomic secrets to communist Russia |
| Joe Mcarthy | Senator who went on "witch hunt" for communists |
| Communism | A totalarianism idea |
| Emmett Till | Black boy who was killed for flirting with white women |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | He was president after Truman |
| Bill Levitt | Built first suburbs called "Levitt Town" |
| Suburbia | Neighborhoods on outsides of cities |
| Indochina | Made up of Veitnam, Laos, and Cambodia |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Surpreme Court rule to integrate schools |
| Earl Warren | Cheif Justice in Brown v. Board of Education |
| Rosa Parks | Sat in white part of bus, was asked to leave and refused, and that started Montgomery Bus Boycotts |
| Little Rock Nine | First nine black kids to go to a white high school in Arkansas |
| JFK | President after Eisenhower, was assainated in Dallas TX |
| Bay of Pigs | Invasion of Cuba that went wrong |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Cuba had missles pointing at U. S., U.S. had missles pointing at Russia, and after 13 days Cuba removed them |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | Accused of shooting JFK |
| Jack Ruby | Shot Oswald |
| LBJ | President after Kennedy, Great Society |
| Korean War | War between communist N. Korea against S. Korea, U.S. went to help S. Korea |
| 38th Parallel | Line separating N. and S. Korea |
| Veitnam War | War of N. Veitnam against S. Veitnam, U.S. went to help S. Veitnam |
| Gulf of Tonkin | Lie told by LBJ saying U.S. ship had been attacked in Gulf of Tonkin, started Veitnam War |
| Betty Friedan | Worked for Women's Rights and wrote Feminine Mystique |
| Cesar Chavez | Leader of Farmworkers Association, inspired by Gandhi |
| James Earl Ray | Shot MLK |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of N Veitnam |
| Toni Morrison | Won Nobel Prize for literature, black author |
| Robert Kennedy | Was killed while running for president |
| Counter-culture | 1960's people were going against traditional culture, hippies, music, etc. |
| Richard Nixon | President after Johnson, had to resign because of Watergate |
| Watergate | Nixon and his people broke into Watergate hotel, Democratic HQ |
| Jimmy Carter | President after Nixon, energy crisis while in office, and Iran hostage |
| Ronald Reagan | President after Carter, former actor, "Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!" |
| Berlin Wall | Separated East and West Berlin |
| George H.W. Bush | President after Reagan, Persian Gulf War, and Somalia |
| Bill Clinton | President after Bush, impeached by house Representives for lieing, but didn't go through |
| Cold War | Communism v. Democracy |
| Mao Zadung | Communist leader of China during Great Leap Forward |
| Totalarianism | Goverment controls everything |
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