US WORLD WAR II
was in command of Allied forces on the islands
Douglas MacArthur
The willingness of the United States, under President Eisenhower, to go to the edge of all-out war became known as
brinkmanship
Blank expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.
beat movement
A second foreign aid program
Alliance for Progress
a seamstress and an NAACP officer, took a seat in the front row of the “colored” section of a Montgomery bus
Rosa Parks
the commander of American naval forces in the Pacific, moved to defend the island
Chester Nimitz
As the nation shifted to a dependence on nuclear arms, the Eisenhower administration began to rely heavily on the recently formed
Central Intelligence Agency
Blank was an extension of Roosevelt’s New Deal, included proposals for a nationwide system of compulsory health insurance
Fair Deal
investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president while acting on his own
Warren Commission
After the bus boycott ended, King joined with ministers and civil rights leaders in 1957 to found the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
was a turning point in the Pacific War. Soon the Allies began “island hopping.”
Battle of Midway
linked the Soviet Union with seven Eastern European countries
Warsaw Pact
government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephone, telegraph, radio, and other communications industries—had allowed 500 new stations to broadcast.
Federal Communications Commission
Kennedy set out to transform his broad vision of progress into what he called the
New Frontier
segregation that exists by practice and custom
de facto segregation
suicide-plane, attack in which Japanese pilots crashed their bomb-laden planes into Allied ships
kamikaze
the United States would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country
Eisenhower Doctrine
To help ease veterans’ return to civilian life, Congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
GI Bill of Rights
Blank was a clear indication that voters approved of his plans. As a result, he often tried to play it safe politically
mandate
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded a political party known as the
Black Panthers
the development of the atomic bomb was not only the most ambitious scientific enterprise in history, it was also the best-kept secret of the war
J. Robert Oppenheimer
the 1960s opened with tension between the two superpowers as great as ever
U-2 incident
In an attempt to break the blockade, American and British officials started the
Berlin airlift
In April 1960, Baker helped students at Shaw University, an African-American university in Raleigh, North Carolina, to organize a national protest group
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
which ended discrimination in housing
Civil Rights Act of 1968