Ch 13 Voc Cold War & Civil Rights

A leader in the civil rights movement and a leader for the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956

A reference given to African American students trying to enter Little Rock High School

In 1948 there was a massive rebuilding to the european economies

as governor he stood at the door of U. of Alabama refusing to let two African Americans enroll 

 This cut the travel and communication of eastern european countries off from the west

Used by many presidents to stop communism from spreading 

turning point in American society in 1950's: African American seeking equality

A means to discourage enemy attack; ex: nuclear weapons kept Soviets from attacking the US

Americans thought to have sympathies with communism went through loyalty checks

He favored segregation and had the National Gaurd surround the school so no blacks could enter

person would not give up his/her seat which led to the Montogomery Bus Boycott

This leader created the world's largest communist state in 1949

Cargo planes were sent for 11 months for citizens replying on brought in goods from the U.S.

Accused hundreds of government employees for being Communists without evidence

Passed to help increase African American voting in the south; fed. cts could register voters

Refused to serve black men in his resturant, he sold it, and later ran for govener of Georgia

went to court for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union about the atomic bomb

Two super powers the US & Soviet Union become rivals but never confront each other in warfare

Post war medical advancement; antibiotic that treated tuberculosis

 invented the 1st vaccine for polio (disease that affected FDR)

A war started & ended with the same boundary line, it took place in 1950 

Created offering aid to the countries (Greece & Turkey) resisting communism

U.S. secretly decoded messages; document revealed IDs of Soviet spies during the Cold War 

People lost their jobs commonly if the were found to be a communist sympathizer

Supreme Ct ruling overturned Plessy v Ferguson; segregated schools were "inherently unequal" 

Constitutionally ruled that "seperate-but-equal" was constitutional

System of federal Hwys created to move the military across the US from coast to coast

Soviet Union launched this satellite into space in 1957

program that helped increase the minority representation in colleges, professions & businesses

First African American on the supreme court & argued Brown v Board of Education case for NAACP