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U.S history B
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hooverville | popular name for towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. |
| Lend-Lease Act | a policy, was An Act to Promote the Defense of the U.S |
| Internment Camps | War Relocation Camps over 110,000 people who lived on the Pacific coast of the U.S |
| Marshall Plan | Americas plan to aid Europe by giving them economic support |
| Highway Act of 1956 | accomplishment of the Eisenhower administration, authorized $25 billion for a ten- year project that built over 40,000 miles of interstate highways. |
| Vietnamization | a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end the U.S.' involvement in the war |
| Containment | a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad |
| Domino Theory | a theory that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then other countries would follow in effect. |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- | - resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, |
| McCarthyism | the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence |
| Red Scare | - promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. |
| Freedom rides | civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 |
| Sit-ins | one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. |
| Bus Boycotts | a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit |
| Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka | a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional |
| SNCC | - was one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s |
| SCLC | – “Southern Christian Leadership Conference” an African-American civil rights organization |
| Nation of Islam | a new religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930 |
| Black Panthers | - a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982 |
| The New Frontier | used by liberal, Democratic[1] presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election |
| The Great Society | a set of domestic programs in the United States first announced by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| The Manhattan Project | - a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group on 17 April 1961 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. |
| The Berlin Airlift- | one of the first major international crises of the Cold War |
| Watergate Scandal | - a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C |
| Roe v. Wade | - a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion |
| Reaganomics | - the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s and still widely practiced. |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States |
| Korematsu vs. The U.S.- | a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066 |
| Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education | a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. |
| Truman Doctrine | international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech |
| Great Depression | a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. |
| New Frontier | used by liberal, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election |
| The New Deal | a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. |
| Gandi | a French company providing domain name registration, web hosting, and related services. |
| Dr. Martin Luther | a German monk, Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the 16th-century movement in Christianity known later as the Protestant Reformation. |
| 18th Amendment- | effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production |
| Fidel Castro | a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008 |
| Ceasar Chavez | an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association |
| The Great Society | was a set of domestic programs in the United States first announced by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| The U.S. Roadway Act | the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act(Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. |
| Korean War- | was a war between the Republic of Korea supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
| The Marshall Plan | - was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II |
| Zero Tolerance | policy imposes automatic punishment for infractions of a stated rule |
| Rosa Parks | an African- American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress |
| Selma | - a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of lower west Alabama |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25 as part of the New Deal. |
| National Recovery Act | a law passed by the United States Congress in 1933 to authorize the President to regulate industry in an attempt to raise prices after severe deflation and stimulate economic recovery. |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in theTennessee Valley |
| Pearl Harbor- | a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu |
| Manhattan Project- | a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. |
| Hitler | an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party |
| Cold War | a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc |
| Woodstock- | - a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" |
| Reagan | an American actor and politician. |
| Guerilla warfare | a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants such as armed civilians or irregulars use military tactics |
| Sandra Day O’Connor | - a retired United States Supreme Court justice, and in 2013 was listed as a NAFTA adjudicator. |
| Baby Boom | any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate. |
| Joseph McCarthy | an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957 |
| Nixon and the People’s Republic of China | an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States (U.S.) and the People's Republic of China |
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