The Cold War and Civil Rights Movement Unit #13 The Cold War and Civil Rights Movement

Please copy the following words in your vocabulary notebook: 1) The Marshall Plan: An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War . 2) The Cold War: The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.

Please copy the following words in your vocabulary notebook: 3) The Korean War: Fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 4) House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC): a committee(1938–75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations, specifically its anti-Communist investigations.

Please copy the following words in your vocabulary notebook: 5) Baby Boom: Increase in births between 1945 and 1964. 6) Interstate Highway Act: 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway. 7) Levittown: The name of four large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons.

Please copy the following words in your vocabulary notebook: 8) Bay of Pigs Invasion: 1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles. 9) Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962 conflict between the US and the USSR resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. 10) Space Race: The competition between the US and the USSR to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon.

Please copy the following words in your vocabulary notebook: 11) Tet Offensive: A communist assault on a large number of South Vietnamese cities in early 1968. The was the turning point of the Vietnam War. 12) Counterculture: Movement that upheld values different from those of the mainstream culture. 13) Conscientious Objector: Person whose moral or religious beliefs forbid him or her to fight in wars.

Please copy the following words in your vocabulary notebook: 14) The Warren Court: Supreme Court of the 1960s under Chief Justice Earl Warren, whose decisions supported civil rights. 15) Brown v. Board of Education, 1955: Supreme Court decision that made legal segregation illegal. The first place to test this was in the nation’s public schools. 16) Montgomery Bus Boycott: 1955-1956 protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, against racial segregation in the bus system.

Please copy the following words in your vocabulary notebook: 17) March on Washington, 1963: 1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights. 18) Civil Rights Act, 1964: Law that outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin. 19) Voting Rights Act, 1965: Law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration.

Please copy the following words in your vocabulary notebook: 20) SNCC: Grass-roots movement founded in 1960 by young civil rights activists. 21) Black Panthers: A member of a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights. 22) Nation of Islam: An organization composed chiefly of African Americans, advocating the teachings of Islam and originally favoring the separation of black and white racial groups in the United States.