term used by Winston Churchill to describe the invisible barrier between Communist Eastern Europe and non-Communist Western Europe

legislation that provided benefits such as money for education and home purchases to World War II veterans

idea that communism must not be allowed to expand to other nations

practice of giving money or other assistance to support anti-Communist governments

American aid given to rebuild European countries ravaged by World War II

military alliance of non-Communist nations in Europe and North America

military alliance of Communist countries in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

idea that if one country falls to communism, other neighboring countries will also fal

President Kennedy’s program which included aid to poor areas, medical insurance for the elderly, and an ambitious space program

change in the Constitution which gave the residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote in national elections

volunteer program in which Americans lived in and worked to help poverty-stricken countries

conflict between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies where both sides tried to avoid direct military conflict

After World War II, the massive rise in the birth rate was called a ________.

The first African American to play major league baseball was ________.

The international peacekeeping body after World War II was the _________.

The part of the United Nations where every member nation has one delegate is the _____________.

The part of the United Nations that has five permanent members and ten temporary members is the ______.

Soviet-dominated countries in Eastern Europe were called Russian __________.

The leader of the Communists in the Chinese civil war was ______________.

The leader of the Nationalists in the Chinese civil war was __________.

The conflict between Communist North Korea and UN peacekeeping troops fighting to defend South Korea was the ___________.

Senator ________ conducted hearings on Communists in the government and was eventually censured for making reckless accusations.

The arrest of ________ for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man led to a successful bus boycott.

In the _______ bus boycott, blacks refused to ride city buses for more than a year in a successful attempt to change the bus system’s segregation rules.

Under Eisenhower, the construction of the ______system began to handle the increasing vehicle traffic within the nation and to provide a way to move military equipment in case of war.

The person who emerged as the new Soviet leader after the death of Stalin was ________.

The idea that Communist and democratic nations could exist side by side without constant conflict and threat of military action was __________.

The Democrat from Massachusetts who was the youngest person and the first Catholic to be elected president was __________.

The Baptist minister who organized the bus boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was ____.

At the _______ in 1963, over 200,000 protestors gathered in the nation’s capital and Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech

Communists in East Germany began building the ____ around the free part of the city to prevent people from escaping from the East to the West.

The ________ is the American organization that gathers and analyzes information regarding foreign affairs, often through the use of spies.

American-trained Cuban refugees landed at the ______ and launched a failed attempt to overthrow Castro.

Congress established the ________ to conduct the American space program