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| is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country. |
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| The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits |
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| the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies. |
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| was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman in a speechon March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere |
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| was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism |
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| was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first resulting in casualties. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution. |
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| was a political and military leader of 20th century China. |
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| Divided North and South Korea |
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| North Korea invaded South Korea |
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| was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. |
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| is a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition |
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| It is situated on a cliff above the valley of the river Kamp. |
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| the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. |
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| the nuclear weapon design concept used in most of the world's nuclear weapons. |
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| was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. |
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| term that was used to refer to the constant competition between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. |
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| civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers through means of covert psychological, cyber, and social warfare using non-military commissioned civilian Intelligence Agents to carry out these intelligence-gathering operations; many of whom are trained to avoid tactical situations. |
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| a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe. |
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| led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. |
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| refers to a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East". Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state |
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| was made in response to the possibility of a generalized war, threatened as a result of the Soviet Union's attempt to use the Suez War as a pretext to enter Egypt. |
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| was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation. |
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| was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States (1945), he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his unprecedented fourth term. |
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| was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States in 1948. It originated as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party in 1948, determined to protect what they portrayed as the southern way of life beset by an oppressive federal government |
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| was the term given to an ambitious set of proposals put forward by United States President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address. |
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| Suffrage, the civil right to vote |
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| any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate. |
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| an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. |
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| a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts. |
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| Federal Communications Commission |
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| refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included experimentation with drugs, alternative forms of sexuality, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and the idealizing of exuberant, unexpurgated means of expression and being. |
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| a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction. Kerouac spoke out against this detour from his original concept. |
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| was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. |
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| a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. |
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| was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. |
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| political party that existed during the mid-1990s |
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| an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. |
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| initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and South America. |
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| was established on November 27, 1963, by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 |
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| the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969) after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963) |
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| was a set of domestic programs in the United States promoted by President Lyndon B. Johnson and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. |
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| federal system of health insurance for people over 65 years of age and for certain younger people with disabilities |
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| A federal system of health insurance for those requiring financial assistance |
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| Apportionment is the process of allocating political power among a set of principles (or defined constituencies). In most representative governments, political power has most recently been apportioned among constituencies based on population, but there is a long history of different approaches. |
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| United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968) |
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| United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913) |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference) A group that works to gain equal rights for Black Americans and other minority groups through non-violent civil protests and community development programs. |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; a civil rights group founded in 1960 that engaged in sit-ins and other nonviolent methods to oppose segregation. In 1966, SNCC adopted a policy of African American self-determination by advocating exclusion of whites from active roles in the organization. |
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| A person who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States. |
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| The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. |
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| US political activist; born Malcolm Little. He joined the Nation of Islam in 1946 and became a vigorous campaigner for black rights, initially advocating the use of violence. In 1964, he converted to orthodox Islam and moderated his views on black separatism; he was assassinated the following year |
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| An exclusively black Islamic sect proposing a separate black nation, founded in Detroit c.1930. It was led from 1934 by Elijah Muhammad (1897–1975) and came to prominence under the influence of Malcolm X. Its current leader is Louis Farrakhan |
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