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Red Scare
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
Containment
Name of the failed military mission during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Bay of Pigs
Anti - Communist Senator who led the red scare movement
Joseph McCarthy
November 22, 1963
JFK Assassintion
GI Bill
Law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations
Songs that could be traced back to the Abolition movement that pushed for Civil Rights.
Freedom Songs
Black power group of the 60's
Black Panther
Civil Rights activist who preferred more violent methods.
Malcolm X
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King assassination
Cold War
A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years
An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Wall
Southern politician who was against the Civil Rights movement but passed the Civil Rights act in 1964.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
February 21, 1965
Malcolm X Assassination
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
The cultural separation between children and their parents
Generation Gap
Former military leaders who becomes president in 1953.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Historical figure who led the mission to the Moon.
Neil Armstrong
July 2, 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law
Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.
Satellite Nations
What is communism?
Government and economic idea of sharing everything.
What is a capitalist?
Free Enterprise system of economics and government - freedom of people.
December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus.