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| 9266067903 | Cold War | A state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but 1947-91 is common. | 0 | |
| 9266067904 | Authoritarian | A form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. | 1 | |
| 9266067905 | Communist | A political system focused on creating a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state. | 2 | |
| 9266067906 | Free-market Economy | A system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between vendors and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by agovernment, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. | 3 | |
| 9266067907 | Collective Security | A type of coalition building strategy in which a group of nations agree not to attack each other and to defend each other against an attack from one of the others, if such an attack is made. | 4 | |
| 9266067908 | Détente | A French term often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a "thawing out" or "un-freezing" at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. | 5 | |
| 9266067909 | ICBM | Inter Continental Ballistic Missile - a ballistic missile with a minimum range of more than 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads). | 6 | |
| 9266067910 | SALT Talks | Two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. | 7 | |
| 9266067911 | Tet Offensive | One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. A campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam | 8 | |
| 9266067912 | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) | A student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. | 9 | |
| 9266067913 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | An American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. | 10 | |
| 9266067914 | Nonviolent Resistance | The practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence. Common examples: Boycotts, Sit-ins | 11 | |
| 9266067915 | Boycott | To withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest. | 12 | |
| 9266067916 | Sit-In | A form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. | 13 | |
| 9266067917 | Executive Order 9981 | Issued by President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1948. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. | 14 | |
| 9266067918 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954, Warren) | Unanimous decision declaring "separate but equal" unconstitutional. | 15 | |
| 9266067919 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. | 16 | |
| 9266067920 | The Great Society | A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. | 17 | |
| 9266067921 | The Baby Boom | (1946-1964) The period of time when the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women (or approximately 1% of the total population size) in the United States. | 18 | |
| 9266067922 | Social Mobility | The movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between layers or tiers in an open system of social stratification. | 19 | |
| 9266067923 | Suburb | A residential area or a mixed use area, either existing as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city. | 20 | |
| 9266067924 | Sun Belt Region | A region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the Southeast and Southwest (the geographic southern United States). Another rough boundary of the region is the area south of the 36th parallel, north latitude. | 21 | |
| 9266067925 | Counterculture | A subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores. | 22 | |
| 9266067926 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954, Warren) | Unanimous decision declaring "separate but equal" unconstitutional. | 23 | |
| 9266067927 | Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) | Extends to the defendant the right of counsel in all state and federal criminal trials regardless of their ability to pay. | 24 | |
| 9266067928 | Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) | Ruled that a defendant must be allowed access to a lawyer before questioning by police. | 25 | |
| 9266067929 | Miranda v. Arizona (1966) | The court ruled that those subjected to in-custody interrogation be advised of their constitutional right to an attorney and their right to remain silent. | 26 | |
| 9266067930 | Roe v. Wade (1973) | The court legalized abortion by ruling that state laws could not restrict it during the first three months of pregnancy. Based on 4th Amendment rights of a person to be secure in their persons. | 27 | |
| 9266067931 | U. S. v. Richard Nixon (1974) | The court rejected Richard Nixon's claim to an absolutely unqualified privilege against any judicial process. | 28 | |
| 9266067932 | Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978) | Ambiguous ruling by a badly divided court that dealt with affirmative action programs that used race as a basis of selecting participants. The court general upheld affirmative action, but with a 4/4/1 split, it was a very weak decision. | 29 | |
| 9266067933 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | A World War II hero and former supreme commander of NATO who became U.S. president in 1953 after easily defeating Democratic opponent Adlai E. Stevenson. | 30 |
