Used to cut off

Eastern from

Western Europe

Nonviolent protests

March on Washington

House Un-

American Activities

Committee

Started new

programs in science

education

Jona

s Sa

lk

George Wallace

Space Race

Brown vs Board of

Education

Increased minorities in

colleges and businesses

Developed vaccine

for polio

Mao Zedong Ended segregation in

schools

Sput

nik

Led China to become largest

Communist state

Protest where

people refused to get off buses

Soviet satellite; ushered in space race

with U

S

Used an axe handle

to keep blacks out

of his restaurant

NAACP lawyer’

argued Brown vs

Board of Education;

first African

American court

justice

Dou

glas

Mac

Arth

ur

Cold War

Thurgood Marshall

Civil Rights Act of

1964

Comm

ander of UN

forces in Korea

Became first

African American to

play in the major leagues

Civi

l dis

obed

ienc

e

Marshall Plan

Prohibited

discrimination

based on race,

color, religion, or

other ethnic origin

War

saw

Pac

t

Gave massive aid to

European countries

to rebuild their economy

Used to pressure

Congress to pass

new Civil Rights bill

Agreement

between Soviet

Union and Eastern

European satellites to com

bat NATO

Free

dom

Rid

es

Baby boom

Refused to give up

her seat to white man GI Bill

Clai

med

to h

ave

nam

es o

f 100

s of

Co

mm

unis

ts

infil

trati

ng th

e U

S go

vern

men

t

Helped veterans

get cheaper

housing Martin Luther King,

Jr

Joseph McCarthy

Sending supplies past Soviet blockade

Led bus boycotts

and marches in Civil

Rights Era

Alabama governor

who prevented

integration

Nor

th A

tlanti

c Tr

eaty

Org

aniz

ation

Berlin Airlift

Letter from

Birm

ingham Jail Questioned people

about possible Communist

sympathies

Nations pledged to

defend each other if att

acked

Affirmative Action

Truman Doctrine

Pres

iden

tial

advi

sor;

opp

osed

se

greg

ation

; bai

led

MLK

out

of j

ail

Promised

assistance of

countries resisting

Communism

Billy Graham

Tim

e of

hig

h bi

rth

rate

s aft

er W

W II

Lasted 13 months; ended bus

segregation in Alabama Sweatt vs Painter

Time when US and

Soviet Union built

up nuclear

weapons but never

fought

Spie

d fo

r Sov

iet

Uni

on in

US;

sol

d se

cret

s ab

out

atom

ic b

omb

Montgomery Bus

Boycott Involved black man

trying to go to UT’s

law school Rosa Parks

Lester Maddox

Julius Rosenberg

Jackie Robinson

Expl

aine

d th

at

Afric

an A

mer

ican

s co

uldn

’t w

ait a

ny

long

er fo

r equ

ality

Iron Curtain