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| 572399102 | bill mauldin | American cartoonist whose World War II cartoons gave people at home a soldier's point on view on life in the army. | |
| 572399103 | Operation "Overlord" | the code name for the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy on June 6, 1944; also known as D-Day | |
| 572399104 | "Final Solution" | 'The Final Solution for the Jewish Question' was the cover name for Hitler's plan to destroy all the Jews in Europe, It began in December 1941 | |
| 572399105 | Yalta Conference | 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war | |
| 572399106 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. (p. 797) | |
| 572399107 | G.I. Bill of Rights | Also known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 gave money to veternas to study in colleges, universities, gave medical treatment, loans to buy a house or farm or start a new business | |
| 572399108 | Truman Doctrine | First established in 1947 after Britain no longer could afford to provide anti-communist aid to Greece and Turkey, it pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism. | |
| 572399109 | Marshall Plan | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | |
| 572399110 | "Iron Curtain" | a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region | |
| 572399111 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | |
| 572399112 | Berlin Airlift | Joint effort by the US and Britian to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city | |
| 572399113 | House Un-American Activities Committee | Congressional committee created in 1938 to investigate U.S. citizens suspected of communist activities | |
| 572399114 | Mutually Assured destruction | a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.[ | |
| 572399115 | Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. | |
| 572399116 | Julius & Ethel Rosenberg | communists who received international attention when they were executed having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage in relation to passing information on the American atomic bomb to the Soviet Union | |
| 572399117 | Brown vs. Board of Education | 1954- court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
| 572399118 | "Quiz Show" scandals | the realization in the 1950s that the quiz shows were rigged and contestants had become basically actors on many of the shows | |
| 572399119 | Baby Boom | An increase in population by almost 30 million people. This spurred a growth in suburbs and three to four children families. | |
| 572399120 | Sputnik | First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race. | |
| 572399121 | "Duck and Cover" | Schoolchildren practiced crawling under their desks and putting their hands over their heads to protect themselves from an atomic bomb attack. | |
| 572399122 | ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer; U.S. government-sponsored machine developed to calculate the settings used for weapons | |
| 572399124 | Rosa Parks | Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed, the Montgomery bus boycott was organized. | |
| 572399126 | Elvis Presley | United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) | |
| 572399128 | U-2 Incident | The downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960. | |
| 572399131 | Berlin Wall | a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West | |
| 572399133 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Brink-of-war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the latter's placement of nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. | |
| 572399135 | Bay of Pigs | In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. | |
| 572399138 | November 22, 1963 | the assasination of president JFK in dallas texas | |
| 572399140 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places. | |
| 572399142 | "Great Society" | President Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the US | |
| 572399145 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 1964 Congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to south vietnam and fight a war against north Vietnam | |
| 572399147 | Tet Offensive | a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968 | |
| 572399150 | Kent State | Ohio college where an anti-war protest got way out of hand, the Nat'l Guard was called in and killed 3 students (innocent & unarmed,wounded 9) in idiscriminate fire of M-1 rifles | |
| 572399152 | Watergate | The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment. | |
| 572399153 | Pentagon Papers | A 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War. |
