History test

38th parallel

After WWII the American and the soviets divided Korea. June 25th 1950 N. Korea invaded S. Korea

Demilitarized zone

Between north and soth Korea an area which bars military forces

General Douglas McArthur

Commander during WWII & N Korea

Castro

Communist leader of Cuba

Censure

Formally criticize

Marshall Plan

It gave $13 billion worth of supplies to western Europe

New Frontier

JFK wanted more money for education and the poor. Social reformers

Flexible response

Kennedy plan to help countries fight communist using special military units. i.e. Green Berets

1960

Kennedy vs Nixon

Blacklists

List of people whose loyalty was questioned

Perjury

Lying under oath

Peace with Honor

Nixon's plan to withdraw from Vietnam with dignity

Dwight D Eisenhower

Repiblican President in 1952

Sabersion

Sabotage

Rosa Parks

She refused to give up her seat in the white section of a bus in Montgomery

Warsaw Pact

The 1955 treaty binding the Soviet Union and countries of eastern Europe in an alliance against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Cold war

Two countries do not fight but build up supplies to threaten each other

Airlift

USA and Brits flew good and supplies to West Berlin

Kent State

University in Ohio where national guard shot and killed 4 anti-war protestors

Dr Martin Luther king

Was one of the leader of the bus boycott

Baby boom

began during World War Two. the population rose by almost twenty percent. It helped the economy to grow.

Stalemate

deadlock; situation in which further action is blocked

Freedom Riders

people who traveled on buses to protect segregation.