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U.S. during WWII
U.S. during WWII
The day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during World War II
D-Day
A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation
Satellite nation
A name given to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans
GI Bill of Rights
The authority to act that an elected official received from the voters who elected him or her
Mandate
The first African-American Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall
The US program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II
Manhattan Project
The hydrogen bomb; a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb
H-bomb
The sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate following World War II
Baby boom
the 35th President of the United States that was in office from 1961 until his assassination in 1963
John F. Kennedy
The leader of the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
What agency established by Congress to control inflation during World War II?
Office of Price Administration
An island in southeast Asia where the Chinese nationalist government fled in May 1949
Taiwan
The tearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods
Urban Renewal
The redrawing of election districts to reflect changes in population
Reapportionment
Activist that rode buses to challenge segregation
Freedom Riders
An interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against segregation in Northern cities
Internment
A former State Department official convicted of perjury related to his charge of espionage
Alger Hiss
A Mexican laborer allowed to enter the United States to work for a limited period of time during World War II
Bracero
A program that provides health insurance for people on welfare
Medicaid
The leader of the SNCC who wanted to focus on developing African-American pride
Stokely Carmichael
American General in command of Allied forces in the Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
The downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
U-2 Incident
An agency that regulates U.S. communications industries, including radio and television broadcasting
Federal Communications Commission
The treaty in which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed not to conduct nuclear weapons test in the atmosphere
Limited Text Ban Treaty
Racial separation established by practice and custom, not by law
De facto segregation