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390116131 | Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. A ceasefire stopped the fighting, but the country is still split. | 0 | |
390116132 | Eisenhower's Presidency | Admired for his military record. Ended deficit spending, cut back the scope of new deal, introduced tax reform that benefited big business, supported civil rights but was resistant to interfere with states rights. | 1 | |
392141365 | 38th parallel | Dividing line between North and South Korea | 2 | |
390116133 | Joseph McCarthy | United States politician who accused many innocent people of being communists without proof, he even accused people in the State Department of being communists | 3 | |
390116134 | U-2 Incident | America flew a plane over Soviet Union to spy, the plane was shot down. Pilot survived after US traded their captive for him. | 4 | |
390116135 | Sputnik | The successful launch of this satellite by the Soviet Union that put fear in the hearts of Americans and started the Space Race. | 5 | |
390116136 | The Space Race | A heated competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the first real-world exploration of outer space. | 6 | |
390116137 | Middle East | a large region that covers parts of northern Africa, southwestern Asia, and southeastern Europe | 7 | |
390116138 | Suez Canal | a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea | 8 | |
390116139 | Rock-n-Roll | became a popular music genre in the fifties with the introduction of Elvis Presley, often equated with rebellion | 9 | |
390116140 | Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are "inherently unequal" and ordered all public schools desegregated. | 10 | |
390116141 | Interstate Highway System | largest public works project created by Eisenhower; a network of high-speed roads built to make interstate travel faster and easier | 11 | |
390116142 | Erie Canal | A canal between the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo, completed in 1825. The canal allowed western farmers to ship surplus crops to sell in the North and allowed northern manufacturers to ship finished goods to sell in the West. | 12 | |
390116143 | Geneva Conference | Conference deciding fate of Vietnam; created cease fire and divided Vietnam into communist north and democratic south; two sides had to hold a national election 2 years later | 13 | |
390116144 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | America's greatest civil rights leader; his nonviolent protests, such as sit-ins, marches, and boycotts, gained national attention and resulted in government protection of African American rights, he was assassinated in 1968 | 14 | |
390116145 | Rosa Parks | Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed, the Montgomery bus boycott was organized. | 15 | |
390116146 | Bus Boycott | In Alabama black citizens protested having to give up their seats to white people by boycotting the buses for over a year. | 16 | |
390116147 | Vietnam | country in which thousands of American troops died in the longest conflict in American History for the fight against communism | 17 | |
390116148 | Dien Bien Phu | The place that the final battle took place that forced the French out of Vietnam | 18 | |
390116149 | Termination Policy | 1953 government eliminated economic support for native Americans, stopped reservation system, redistributed tribal support | 19 | |
390116150 | Jim Crow Laws | rigid, anti-black laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south | 20 | |
390116151 | KKK | Terrorist group of White Supremacists in south, against blacks, Jews, Catholics | 21 | |
390116152 | Containment | a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | 22 | |
392141366 | Emmett Till | an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman; his murder is noted as a pivotal event motivating the African-American Civil Rights Movement | 23 | |
392141367 | White Citizens Council | the group, comprised of about 15,000 members mostly in the south, was well known for its opposition to racial integration in the South. | 24 |