Ch 17 U.S during WWII
An Organization that was hoped to succeed where the League of Nations had failed
United Nations
The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
Cold War
Residential communities surrounding cities that grew dramatically after WWII.
Suburbs
13 days of extreme tensions between the Soviet Union and the US concerning the placement and eventual disarmament of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
A group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans.
Nation of Islam
An energetic American officer, A.K.A Ike, commanded the Allied invasion of North Africa.
Dwight Eisenhower
A Hydrogen Bomb a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb
H-bomb
Founded in 1944 to ensure Native Americans had the same civil rights whites had and to enable Native Americans on reservation to retain their own customs.
National Congress of American Indians
1963 agreement between the US and USSR that banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Elected to lead the Montgomery Improvement Association to help organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Martin Luther King Jr.
An African American fighter squad that played a key role in the campaign, escorting bombers and protecting them from enemy fighter pilots.
Tuskegee Airmen
A U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
an agency that regulates U.S. communications industries, including radio and television broadcasting.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
A program created by JFK consisting where Americans could volunteer to assist people in the developing nations.
Peace Corps
one of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.
Freedom Riders
Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military.
Rationing
accused of being spies and giving the soviet union information about the American atomic bomb. were executed.
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
successfully developed a vaccine for the crippling disease poliomyelitis (polio).
Dr. Jonas Salk
Declared by LBJ as an effort to alleviate the growing poverty problem in the US.
War on Poverty
A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Government agency that decided which companies would make war materials and how to distribute raw materials.
War Production Board (WPB)
the world's first artificial satellite. launched by the soviet union it traveled around the earth at 18,000 mph.
Sputnik
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
35th president of the US; youngest elected president. Won largely because of his televised debate and position on civil rights
John F. Kennedy
Militant African-American political organization formed by founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality.
Black Panthers