WW II
Who became the world’s 33rd president
Harry S. Truman
a list of people whom they condemned for having a Communist background
blacklist
Blank was an extension of Roosevelt’s New Deal, included proposals for a nationwide system of compulsory health insurance
Fair Deal
became the 35th president of the United States on a crisp and sparkling day in January 1961
John F. Kennedy
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
After the war blank pushed the government to compensate those sent to the camps for their lost property
Japanese American Citizens League
In 1948, a former Communist spy named Whittaker Chambers accused BLANK of spying for the Soviet Union
Alger Hiss
Blank expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.
beat movement
Instead, his team developed a policy of
flexible response
They elected the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 26-year-old
Martin Luther King, Jr
Congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment ACT, known as
GI Bill of Rights
minor activists in the American Communist Party
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
eliminated federal economic support, discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans.
termination policy
openly declared himself a communist and welcomed aid from the Soviet Union
Fidel Castro
won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi, nicknamed Ole Miss
James Meredith
In 1942, civil rights leader James Farmer founded an interracial organization called what?
Congress of Racial Equality
a Republican from Wisconsin
Joseph McCarthy
hired hands
braceros
a program of volunteer assistance to the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Peace Corps
prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines that gave this desperate last ditch offensive its name
Battle of the Bulge
The blank revived European hopes
Marshall Plan
a name that has come to mean music that’s both black and white—music that is American
rock ‘n’ roll
Blank was a clear indication that voters approved of his plans. As a result, he often tried to play it safe politically
mandate
In 1938, he placed a team of his best law students under the direction of
Thurgood Marshall