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| a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy 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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| A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular |
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| The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. |
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| A program of financial aid and other initiatives, sponsored by the US, designed to boost the economies of western European countries after World War II. |
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| airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| Chinese statesman; chairman of the Communist Party of the Chinese People's Republic |
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| Chinese statesman and general; president of China |
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| north latitude as it bisects the Korean Peninsula became the arbitrary demarcation line between North and Republic of Korea |
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| The war of 1950–53 between North and South Korea |
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| House Un-American Activities Committee |
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| A list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval |
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| were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage |
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| were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage |
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| A vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions |
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| a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light |
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| United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany |
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| The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics |
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| Central Intelligence Agency |
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| A treaty of mutual defense and military aid signed at Warsaw on May 14, 1955 |
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| came close to war with the US over the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and also clashed with China |
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| The protection or promotion of the interests of consumers |
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| 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". |
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| a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace |
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| an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans |
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| elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan |
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| Any of the Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights |
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| a doctrine of limitations and exceptions to copyright which is found in many of the common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
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| An authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities |
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| A temporary marked increase in the birth rate, esp. the one following World War II |
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| United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis |
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| Federal Communications Commission |
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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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| a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired |
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| was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963 |
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| Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba |
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| A fortified and heavily guarded wall built on the boundary between East and West Berlin in 1961 by the communist authorities |
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| An international agreement not to test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space, or underwater, signed in 1963 by the US, the UK, and the former Soviet Union, and later by more than 100 governments |
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| used by John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him |
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| An organization sponsored by the US government that sends young people to work as volunteers in developing countries |
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| initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between North and South America |
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| an official investigation conducted by a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded that accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
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| served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 |
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| A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs |
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| A 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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| the process of allocating political power among a set of principles |
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| United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks |
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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 |
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| 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 US civil-rights student organization active in the 1960s |
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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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| 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; joined the Nation of Islam in 1946 and became a vigorous campaigner for black rights |
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| An exclusively black Islamic sect proposing a separate black nation, founded in Detroit |
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