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1950's- 1960's
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sit in | blacks sat in a public place that they weren't welcome at and wanted to make a statement |
| martin luther king jr. | major black activist that gave "I have a dream speech" |
| john f. k | president in the 60's, assasinated |
| gi bill of rights | made subsidies available to veterans to help finish education |
| harry s truman | roosevelt's vice president, came into office when he died in 1944. |
| taft-hartley act | new workers had to join a union before being employed try to prevent strikes |
| containment | try to keep communism in russia and other eastern countries. did not want it to spread |
| manhattan project | program to build a secret nuclear bomb |
| red army | stalin's army division |
| truman doctrine | support free people in the middle east in communism stared to spread |
| marshall plan | plan to help rebuild europe after the war |
| berlin airlift | blockade to west berlin, US dropped food and other supplies to help keep them alive |
| fair deal | rise minimum wage and fund housing projects |
| berlin wall | divide east and west berlin, keep noncommunist out of berlin |
| bay of pigs | us military leaders who took advantage of weak president and pushed for more unneeded action |
| cuban missle crisis | missiles and bombs were out in cuba by russia and aimed at the us |
| great society | johnsons attempt to make it to where there was no poverty |
| civil rights act of 1965 | outlawed descrimination against blacks and other races |
| medicare | for people over 65 to give them insurance on medical problems. better retirement |
| voting rights act of 1965 | protected the blacks right to vote, insured their registration |
| watergate scandal | nixon payed criminals that stole documents to conceal whitehouse involvement |