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CW/CR Vocabulary
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| Vocabulary | Definition |
|---|---|
| Communism | a system of government under which there is no private industry and no private property, most things are state-owned |
| Cold War | the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II |
| "Iron Curtain" | Winston Churchill used this term to show us how the Soviet Union had separtated their "satellites" from the rest of the world |
| Truman Doctrine | a policy that promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom |
| Domino Theory | a theory stating that if a country fell to communism, nearby countries would as fall tdo communism |
| Arms Race | from the late 1940s to the late 1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union tried to top each other by developing weapons with great destructive power |
| Containment | the blocking by one nation of another nation's attempts to spread influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet Communism during the lated 1940s and early 1950s |
| NATO | the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada |
| Warsaw Pact | is an alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | in 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union almost went to war because the Soviets had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba |
| Berlin Wall | a wall to try to stop East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin |
| Viet Cong | a Vietnamese Communist |
| Doves | a person opposed to war |
| Hawks | a person who supports war |
| Vietnamization | a strategy of gradually withdrawing U.S. forces and turning the ground fighting over to the South Vietnamese during the Vietnam War |
| Brown v. Board of Education | a 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia, who fought for African-American rights |
| Passive Resistance | nonviolent protests which Martin Luther King Jr. used to win equal rights for African Americans |
| Rosa Parks | an African-American woman from Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat to a white man, she was then arrested, she later became an officer for the NAACP |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | in 1955, African Americans boycotted the public buses in Montgomery, Alabama in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white person |
| Freedom Riders | people who protes aganist segregation on interstate busing in the South |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | this act banned segreagation in public places and created the Equal Opportunity Commission |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | this law banned literacy tests and other laws that kept Africans from registering to vote |
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