Cold War
A way of living in which all wealth is owned by everyone together. There is no private property
Communism
The policy to stop the spread of communism
Containment
The separation of people of different races
Segregation
The effort by millions of Americans in the 1950's and 1960's to win equality for African Americans
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement force the passage of this Act in what year
Civil Rights Act of 1964
He was the leader of the Soviet Union
Josef Stalin
38th Parallel
Treating people unfairly because of their race
Discrimination
Opinions formed without knowledge of the subject
Prejudice
African Americans had to use separate facilities from White Americans up until the 1960's. Racist people called the system this
"Separate but equal"
The name given by Winston Churchill to communism and the separation it was causing in Europe
Iron Curtain
Communists in South Vietnam who fought to unite with North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Open to all people of all races
Integration
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This is the number of U.S. soldiers who died in the war in Korea
37,000
Group consisting of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, West Germany, France and others to stand against the threat and spread of communism in Europe and the world
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
He was the leader of China
Mao Zedong
Ordered the integration of all American Public Schools
Brown vs. the Board of Education
Heritage
By 1968, there were this many U.S. troops fighting in Vietnam
500,000
Built by the Soviet Union in East Berlin and East Germany to stop refugees from leaving the city or country
Berlin Wall
He was the leader of the North Vietnamese
Ho Chi Minh
He was the President who ordered the military to stop the segregation of blacks and whites in the military
Harry Truman
Mexican American activist and union leader
Cesar Chavez
True or False: During the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union never "directly" fought one another in a war
True