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| President Johnson's Program to inprove U.S society |
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| Period of anticommunist hysteria after World War 1 |
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| Ran against and lost to JFK in 1960. Became president in 1968. Was the first president to resign from office. |
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| Transition from wartime to peacetime production and employment levels. |
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| Investigative journalists who wrote about corrupyion in business and politics hoping to bring about reform. |
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| Group of film directors and writters who went to jail rather then answer questions from the Un-American Activities Committee. |
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| Young women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior. |
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| Took office after JFK was killed |
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| The day investors caused a panic on Wall Street by selling all their stocks |
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| Serious global economic decline |
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| Anti-Castro Cuban refugees tried to invade Cube, Cuban forces pinned down all the rebels |
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| International organization created to solve problems between nations |
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| Leader of the civil rights movement |
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| National Liberation Front |
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| Small devlopments that expanded onto small cities |
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| Small towns set up by people who had lost their homes in the great depression |
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| Annihilation of an entire people |
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| Leading minister for the nation of Islam |
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| buying stocks with borrowed money |
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| Shot and killed president John F. Kennedy |
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| Arrested for violating segragation laws |
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| New Deal Proclamation that temporarily closed every U.S bank to stop massive withdrawals |
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| A special type of war bond that was sold to support the allied cause in World War 1 |
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| First African-American major league Baseball player |
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| Law that provides retirement pensions, unemployment insurance, and payments to people with disabilities and widows and children of male workers who have died |
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| Nazi Germany's slaughter of European Jews |
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| Tennessee Valley Autoority |
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| New Deal program established in 1933 to build dams and power stations to provide hydroelectric power and flood control to the Tennessee River Valley |
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| Group of WW 1 veterans who marched on Washington, DC. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their pension bonuses |
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| City in Japan that the 1st Atomic Bomb was dropped on. |
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| A Gangster in the 20s and 30s Who let a crime syndicate dedicated to the smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activites during the prohibition era. |
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| Policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turing over all the fighting in the Vietnam war to the South Vietnamese army. |
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| Americans who opposed the Vietnam war |
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| Cold war belief that if one nation in southeast Asia fell to communism, the rest of southeast Asia would also fall. |
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| Led the vietnamese fight for independence |
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| WW2 battle in which the Allies defeated the final German offensive |
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| Led over 30,000 U.S and 110,000 Filipino troops to defend the Philippines |
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| U.S program of giving money to European countries to help rebuld their economies after WW2 |
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| Soaring birthrate in the U.S follwing WW2 |
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| Formed by Southern Democrats who were dissatisfied with president Truman's support for civil rights issues |
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| Became president in 1960, was assinated in 1963 |
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| Contributed to the environment movement in the 1960s |
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| Became dictator of Cuba in 1959 |
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| A group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation |
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| Secret U.S project that begun in 1942 to develop an atomic bomb |
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| Senator from Wisconsin that fuled the suspicions of communist sympathizers ans spys in America |
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