Truman | | Sent troops to Little Rock to protect black students |
Cesar Chavez | | Rachel Carson book about pesticides |
Neil Armstrong | | First man to walk on the moon |
Ford | | Broke down racial barriers with his music |
GIBill | | Only president in history who was not elected. |
Chiang KaiShek | | South Vietnamese who supported North Vietnam |
My Lai | | Site of a massacre in Vietnam |
Kent State | | NATO is an example of this |
Warsaw Pact | | Organized the United Farmworkers Union |
Wounded Knee | | Civil rights leader; practiced civil disobedience |
Ho Chi Minh | | Red Scare during the 1950s |
AIM | | Confronted the Soviet Union and won during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Nixon | | Created the New Deal to try to end the Depression |
Yalta | | Site of a college protest; four students died |
Iron Curtain | | Middle east organization; controls the price of oil |
Marshall Plan | | U.S. promised to help countries oppose communism |
Kennedy | | Community of mass produced homes |
collective security | | created by congress tohelp WWII vets with mortgages and college |
Jackie Robinson | | Authorized the use of the atomic bomb in Japan |
Truman Doctrine | | Attempt to overthrow Castro |
McCarthyism | | Organized by Dennis Banks and Russell Means |
Jim Crow | | Symbol of Cold War tensions; created to prevent an escape route from communism |
Eisenhower | | Broke the color barrier in baseball |
Watergate | | WWII conference that led to accusations that Democrats were soft on communism |
Silent Spring | | Led the nationalists in the Chinese civil war |
Ngo Dinh Diem | | Alliance of Eastern European communist countries. |
Bay of Pigs | | Name for laws that separated blacks and whites |
Tet Offensive | | Civil rights workers rode buses into the South |
Berlin Wall | | Only president to resign from office |
Levittown | | Johnson's domestic policy |
Martin Luther King | | Scandal; led to Nixon's resignation |
Roosevelt | | South Vietnamese leader |
Freedom Rides | | U.S. economic plan to rebuild Europe after WWII |
Mao Zedong | | Communist countries in Eastern Europe |
OPEC | | North Vietnamese leader |
Elvis | | Turning point of the Vietnam War |
Viet Cong | | Occupied by Native Americans; site of a massacre |
Great Society | | Leader of communist revolution in China |