History 3
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- Truman
- dropped the atomic bomb
- H-Bomb
- one of the most deadly weapons developed after WWII - hydrogen bomb
- Suburb
- residential area surrounding a city
- John Kennedy
- strong civil rights supporter, youngest president ever, signaled power going to a younger generation
- Plessy v Ferguson
- case that said "separate but equal" is legal
- Berlin Airlift
- drop of supplies to communist Germany
- Fair Deal
- Truman's program that called for new projects to create new jobs
- Containment
- contain the spread of Communism
- Eisenhower
- ended the war with Korea
- Zedong
- Communist leader of China
- Baby Boom
- sharp increase in births after WWII
- Cold War
- war of words instead of weapons
- Brown v Board of Education
- case in which the Supreme Court struck down "separate but equal"
- Space Race
- competition between U.S. and Soviets to launch a space satallite
- McCarthy
- Republican senator who accused men of being communist
- Voting Rights Act
- got rid of literacy tests at voting registration place
- 38th Parallel
- line that separated North and South Korea
- Truman Doctrine
- promise to aid people struggling against threats to democratic freedom
- Rock 'n' Roll
- a form of music developed from rhythm and blues
- Brinksmanship
- going to the very bring of war to stop the spread of communism
- Betty Friedan
- author of "Feminine Mystique"
- Freedom Rides
- efforts to integrate the national interstate busing system
- Sputnik
- the first satellite launched in space- launched by the USSR
- Sunbelt
- a region comprising of the states in the south and the southwest
- Korean War
- war between North and South Korea
- Communism
- the belief that there is no need for a government and that everyone can work together to serve
- William Levitt
- created suburbs
- Bomb Shelters
- shelters that people created so they could protect them from a nuclear attack
- Arms Race
- competition to build more weapons of destruction
- Freedom Summer
- a project to register blacks to vote in the south