US History Unit 8

A conflict between countries with no actual fighting

To keep peace throughout the world

Lent money to 17 countries. The money was used to rebuild bridges, factories, hospitals and schools

By creating alliances and packs with different countries. Western European countries were with NATO, Eastern European Countires were with the Warsaw Pack

Japan was occupied by the US military until 1952 and India and Pakistan gained independence

The U.N divided Palestine into 2 states. On May 14, 1948 Jews announced the creation of the state Israel. War soon broke out

Responsible for promoting higher standards of livingg, and full employment

Truman, Dewey, Thurman and Wallace

Prices were rising quickly but wages were not rising. There were so many strikes

The chinese pushed the allied forces back and the combating forces fought back along the hill tops, and was settled along the 38th parallel, with no peace treaty

He did not want a war involving the Soviet Union because he feared the atomic warfare

Communist spies- to build atomic weapons and passing top secret material to soviet union

September 1950

Won re election in the presidential election of 1948

Was the reported winner of the 1948 presidential election, but actually lost in a close race

The Conservative Democrat nominated for president in 1948

The line of latitude that effectively separated North Korea from South Korea

General and leader of American forces in Korea; Fired by President Truman

One of the husband and wife spy team convicted of selling atomic secrets to the soviet union

State Department worker charged with passing top secret material to Soviet Agents

Republican Senator who accused citizens and prominent Americans being communist

Because he represented firmness, friendliness and honesty

Department of Heath, welfare, federal aid, highway, NASA, national defense, and education act

Desregration of schools and Rosa Parks on the bus

State sanctioned segration of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment therefore being unconstitutional

Competition for supremacy in the nuclear warfare, between US, the soviet union and allies

Eisenhower maintained pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons and reduced the other forces to save money

They moved to suburbs, dded children to their families and bought homes

to purchase homes and to start a family

Families spent less time in the evening reading, and gathered arounf the tv instead

He was the first African American to enter the Major League Baseball, and he broke that segregation barrier

Won the 1952 presidency by a landslide

Governor of Illinois who lost the 1952 presidential election

Elementary student who sparked the Brown vs Board of Education court case

Represented the Brown family before the Supreme Court

Arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man

Leader of the Soviet Union during the U - 2 spy plane incident

US pilot shot down over the Soviet Union while photographing military bases

Name of the first planned community; located in New York

The first African American actor to win the Best Actor Award

John Glenn and 1 year

August 1961

JFK is assassinated, and Lyndon B Johnson becomes president

Voters could see that Kennedy looked healthy and Nixon did not

Was the first election to be swayed by televised events

To stop Soviets from escaping

Russia and China

Learning that the Soviet Union had installed nuclear missiles that could destroy much of the east coast

Cuba agreed to withdrawl the Soviet Missile sites there and the US promised not to invade Cuba and to remove its own missiles from Turkey

Secretary of State during the Cuban missile crisis

Capital of East Germany; site of the building of the Berlin Wall

Site of a failed US invasion which attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro

Republican who lost the 1960 presidential election

Democrat who won the 1960 presidential election

Could not force children to say a prayer, every person accused for a serious crime had a right to a lawyer

It helped other countries build sorority while stopping the spread of communism

The US space program, spent 20 - 40 billion dollars towards the space program

To put a man on the moon before 1970

Sit - ins, Freedom of Speech and Rides

To peacefully protest about the civil right

Everyone saw that the police were treating African Americans and joib in on the movement

The 100th anniversary of the emancipation problem at the Lincoln Memorial

The country was left in shock and saddness

That the assassination was a one man job

He is arrested and sent to jail

They have been waiting for 340 years

His administration ushered in the NEW FRONTIER; was assassinated in November 1963

A Soviet cosmonaut; first man in space

The first american to be sent to space

The Attorney General during the Kennedy Administration; sent federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders

An African American who successfully enrolled at the University of Mississippi

Southern minister who helped to lead the protests and desegregation movement

Ground zero from many protests and marches in favor of desegreation

Assumed the presidency after the assassination of Kennedy

Determined to be the lone assassin of Kennedy

Dallas businessman who killed Oswald

The chief justice appointed to a commission to determine if Oswald acted alone or with others to assassinate the president

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