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To separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion
What is segregate
Joins the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes
What is the Saint Lawrence Seaway?
President Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba during this
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John Glenn
Who was the first American to orbit the earth?
The US space organization
What is NASA?
The rights given to all US citizens by the Constitution
What is civil rights?
When North Korea invaded South Korea
What is the Korean War?
Money given to veterans of war for college and buying a house
What is the G I Bill?
Led the UN soldiers in South Korea
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
The alliance of countries along the Atlantic Ocean
What is NATO?
the lowest possible pay a worker can make per hour
What is minimum wage?
Number 49 and 50
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
Anti-segregation legislation
What is the Civil Rights Bill?
Investigated government leaders suspected of being Communists
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The laws to segregate black Americans
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
placing too much importance on things money can buy
What is materialism?
Race between the Us and Soviet Union involving rockets
What is the Space Race?
The period in the US after WWII
What is postwar America?
What is the Peace Corps?
The protestor who wouldn't give up her bus seat
Who is Rosa Parks?
unfair treatment based on prejudice
What is discrimination?
Preventing ships from entering the ports of another country
What is a blockade?
Alan Shepherd
Who was the first American into space?
The government aid program the President Truman proposed
What is the Fair Deal?
The tensions between the US and USSR after WWII
What is the Cold War?
Elected president in 1952
Who was Eisenhower?
Legislation passed to build major interstate higways
What is the Federal Aid Highway Act?
America's official motto
What is "In God We Trust"?
The dictator of Cuba?
Who is Fidel Castro?
City where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his most famous speech
What is Washington, DC?
Where John F. Kennedy is buried
What is Arlington National Cemetery?
Where Kennedy was assassinated
What is Dallas, Texas?
Where Krushchev ordered a wall to be built
What is Berlin?
Policy to ease tensions of the Cold War
What is the Open Skies policy?
Organization formed in 1945 for the purpose of keeping world peace
What is the UN?