Post War America

Constitution

Gives civil rights to ALL American citizens

Jim Crow Laws

Continued to setegate black Americans from white Americans in most southern states during the 1950's

Discrimination

Unfair treatment based on a prejudice.

President Truman

Supported the civil rights of black Americans

Poll Taxes

Kept African Americans from voting in some states

The supreme Court

Ruled that states must provide black students the same educational opportunities as white students.

Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Black Americans who worked for civil rights

Kkk or ku klux klan

Group of people still actively opposed black Americans in some states

Boycott

The act of refusing to use, buy, or deal with a store, company,or organization in order to express a protest.

Civil rights

Thr rights, given to all us citizens by the constitution

Cold war

Tentions between the Untied states and the Soviet union from the 1940's through the 1980's

United Nations

A organization formed in 1945 for the purpose of keeping world peace

Segragate

To separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion

Truman Doctrine

A change in America's foreign policy that involved giving military and economic aid to countries under a Communist threat.

North Atlantic treaty organization

Alliance between the united states, Canada, and several European nations

Douglas MacArthur

American general during world war 2 who led the campaign to free the Phillipines Islands from Japan

Leader of US forces in the Korean war until called home because of a disagreement with President Truman

Joseph MacCarthy

A US senator in the 1950's who made unfair accusations against people he suspected to be communists

GI bill

Legislation that offered veterans benefits such as financial help with college and buying a house

Materialism

Placing too much importance on things money can buy

Fair Deal

A program of government aid proposed by Harry Truman

Minimum wage

The lowest possible pay a worked can make per hour

William Hastie

The first black judge to be appointed to a federal court

Edward Dudley

American ambassador to Liberia in the 1950's

The first black American Ambassador

Jackie Robinson

A highly successful baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940's and 1950's

The first black American to play in the major leagues

Martin Luther King Jr.

A black minister whelo led the civil rights movement in the 1950's and 1960's

Saint Lawrence Seaway

A waterway that expanded the Saint Lawrence River with system of canals and locks to allow ships to sail from the Alantic Ocean to the Great Lakes; completed in 1959.

Federal Aid Highway Act

A 1956 act of Congress that authorized the building of a major interstate highway system across the United states

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

The organization responsible for American's activity in space

Alan Shephard

In 1961 became the first American astronaut to enter space.

John Glenn

The first American astronaut to orbit the earth.

Billy Graham

An American evangelist whose preaching attracted large crowds throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

John F. Kennedy

The 35nd President of the US

The youngest President

Worked with Congress on the Civil Rights Bill

Was assassinated in 1963

Peace Corps

A program begun by President Kennedy in which American volunteers go to other countries to help improve the people's way of life.

Fidel Castro

Communist dictator in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Cuban Missile Crisis

A situation in 1962 when Soviet missiles were placed in Cuba; the United States responded with a blockade until the missiles were removed.

Civil Rights Bill

Anti-segragation legislation that was going through the lawmakers process when Kennedy was assasinated.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Vice president under John F. Kennedy.

Became the 36th US president following Kennedy's assassination.

These states were admitted to the United States while aeisenhower was president

Hawaii and Alaska

Americans

Most of the soldiers that the United Nations sent to fight communism in the Korean War were

The space race

Was one way for the Soviet Union and the United states to fight the cold war

Nikita Khrushchev

Ordered a wall to be built between East and West Berlin

Open Skies policy

Eisenhower believed this would decrease tentions of the Cold war.

Soviet Union

The first satellite was launched by

American culture

During the 1950's watching TV became part of

Dwight D Eisenhower

Was elected president if the united States in 1952War.

Sent military advisors to help train the South Vietnamese army

Canada and United states

Worked together on the Saint Lawrence Seaway project.

China and United States

North Vietnam recieved military aid from these countries during the Vietnam war.

Project Mercury

NASA named America's first space program