US History Post WWII

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

NASA

National Aeronautics Space Administration

Thurgood Marshall

1st African American Supreme Court Justice

Presidential Succession

1) President

2) Vice President

3) Pro temp

4) Sec of State

5) Sec of Treasury

Truman Doctrine

US supports and assists democratic people (military)

Marshall Plan

Giving aid to countries in need ($)

Iron Curtain

Fortress of communism

Containment

Slow communism down

22nd Amendment

Limited presidental terms to 2

Red Scare

Fear of communism

McCarthyism

Senator who claimed that people were tied to communism, spread the Red Scare

Alger Hiss

Convicted of giving documents/information to Russia

Rosenbergs

Convicted of spying, put to death

38th Parallel

Divides North and South Korea

Hydrogen Bomb

500x stronger that atomic bomb

Robert Goddard

Rocket engine

Rosa Parks

Arrested for sitting in the front of the bus, Montgomery AL

Sputnik 1

1st Russian satellite

Sputnik 2

Sent a dog (Laika)

Explorer

1st American satellite

Fidel Castro

Communist leader in Cuba

Plessy vs Ferguson

Separate but equal

Brown vs Board of Ed.

Reversed Plessy vs Ferguson, no segregation in schools