Vocabulary
From Hot to Cold War
A Booming Postwar Economy
The Arms Race Comes to South Carolina
Separate Worlds
100
A country with great economic, political, and military influence in the world
What is superpower
100
an intense competition between nations without fighting
What is cold war
100
By 1960, almost every home in America had this
What is tv
100
The nation's largest center for manufacturing nuclear weapons
What is the Savannah River Site
100
In this Court decision, the court ruled that the primary be open to all eligible voters
What is Elmore v. Rice
200
A written request or demand that supporters sign to show their agreement
What is petition
200
the two countries that were fighting during the cold war
What is United States and Soviet Union
200
The federal government passed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act... also known as this
What is The GI Bill
200
The main function of the SRS
What is to produce radioactive materials for nuclear weapons
200
This group worked with the NAACP to protect blacks and their rights
What is Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)
300
declaration of principles
What is platform
300
A potentially deadly competition between U.S and the Soviet Union with weapons and bombs
What is the arms race
300
The beginning of a long saga in America
What is "White Flight"
300
This group passed a law that invited companies to build plants in South Carolina
What is the General Assembly
300
These laws caused segregation in the south
What is Jim Crow Laws
400
An attitude or culture that values only what can be bought or possessed
What is consumerism
400
conflicts that became stand-ins for for the clash between the superpowers
What is the proxy wars
400
White flight was sped along by this-the largest public works project in the nation's history
What is the Interstate Highway System
400
The government office in charge of nuclear affairs
What is the Atomic Energy Commission
400
This man went to court after an argument with a bus driver and after policemen beat him
Who is Isaac Woodard
500
to do something in a purposeful or organized matter
What is systematic
500
A Republican senator from Wisconsin and capitalized on Cold War fears by publicly and loudly claiming that Communists had infiltrated many different levels of the federal government
Who is Joseph McCarthy
500
During this time 77 million babies were born from 1946 to 1964
What is the Baby Boom
500
Refused to sell oil to the U.S
What is the Middle East
500
With the support of ______, Elmore filed suit against the state in federal court
What is NAACP