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| countries dominated by the Soviet Union |
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| taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries. |
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| conflict between Soviet Union and US where neither nation directly confronted each other on battlefield |
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| it is a policy is that the US must support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armored minorities or by outside pressures. |
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| gave over 16 millon dollars in aid to Western Europe. |
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| fly food and supplies into west Berlin. |
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| a defensive military alliance that USA had with Western Europe Nations and Canada. |
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| Communist Leader in Northern China. |
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| Nationlist leader in southern and eastern china. |
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| Where Japanese surrendered to Soviets or USA. |
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| Where North Korea swept across South Korea in a surprise attack. |
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| investigated communist influences in the movie industry. |
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| list of people who were condemned for having a communist background. |
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| minor activists in the American Communist Party. |
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| Attacks that Joseph McCarthy made accusing people of being communist. |
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| Hydrogen Bomb, force of 1 million tnt. 67 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. |
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| president of USA during the time both countries had the H-Bomb. |
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| the willingness of the United States to go to the edge of all-out war. |
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| used spies to gather information abroad about nuclear arms. |
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| linked the soviet union with seven eastern European countries. |
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| new communist leader over Soviet Union. |
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| a warning from president Eisenhower saying that the US would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country. |
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| where Eisenhower agreed to stop the U-2 flights but he would not apoligize. |
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| guaranteed to give veterans a year worth of unemloyment benefits while job hunting. |
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| formed the states' rights Democratic party. |
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| an extension of Roosevelt's new deal, included proposals for a nationwide system of compulsory health insurance and a crop subsidy system to provide a steady income for farmers. |
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| company that offers similar products or services in many locations. |
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| unprecedented population explosion after ww2 |
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| developed a vaccine for polio. |
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| the government agency that regulates licenses,television,telephone,telegraph,radio, and other communications industries. |
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| expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists,poets,and writers. |
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| A young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation. |
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| revolutionary leader of Cuba,reason why President Eisenhower cut off diplomatic relations with cuba. |
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| a concrete wall topped with barbed wire that served the city of Berlin in two. |
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| barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere. |
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| Kennedy's broad vision of progress. |
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| program of volunteer assistance to the developing nations of Asia,africa, and Latin America. |
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| offered economic and technical assistance to Latin American countries. |
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| investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president while acting on his own. |
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| president after JFK assassination. |
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| Johnson's vison for America. |
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| provided hospital insurance and low cost medical insurance for almost every american 65 and older. |
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| extended health insurance to welfare recipients. |
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| the way in which states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them. |
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| NAACP officer that would not give up her seat to a white person. |
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| purpose was to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship. |
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| a national protest group created by students at Shaw University. |
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| hoped to provoke a violent reaction that would convince the Kennedy administration to enforce the law. |
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| prohibited discrimination because of race,religion,national origin, and gender. |
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| eliminated "literacy tests" that had disqualified many voters. |
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| African American leader that urged followers to take complete control of their communities. |
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