American History

Unit 11

Terms & Names

Define the following terms.  Use your text, notes, internet sources, dictionaries, etc. to find the definitions.

1.        Cold War—

2.        Truman Doctrine—

3.        President Truman—

4.        President Eisenhower—

5.        Containment—

6.        Marshall Plan—

7.        Berlin Wall—

8.        NATO—

9.        Mao Zedong—

10.     Chiang Kai-Shek—

11.     Korean War—

12.     General MacArthur—

13.     Limited War—

14.     Arms Race—

15.     Brinksmanship—

16.     Nikita Kruschev—

17.     H-Bomb—

18.     Military-Industrial Complex—

19.     Third World—

20.     CIA—

21.     Fidel Castro—

22.     Bay of Pigs—

23.     President Kennedy—

24.     Cuban Missile Crisis—

25.     GI Bill—

26.     Baby Boom—

27.     Suburb—

28.     Rock n’ Roll Era—

29.     Brown v. Board of Education—

30.     Montgomery Bus Boycott—

31.     Rosa Parks—

32.     Martin Luther King, Jr.—

33.     Medgar Evers—

34.     March on Washington—

35.     Civil Rights Act of 1964—

36.     Malcolm X—

37.     Robert Kennedy—

38.     Lee Harvey Oswald—

39.     Warren Commission—

40.     President Lyndon Johnson—

41.     The Great Society—

42.     Tonkin Gulf Resolution—

43.     President Richard Nixon—

44.     Election of 1968—

45.     Viet Cong—

46.     Ho Chi Minh—

47.     Tet Offensive—

48.     Fall of Saigon—

49.     Watergate—

50.     President Gerald Ford—

51.     President Jimmy Carter—

52.     President Ronald Reagan—

53.     President George H. W. Bush—

54.     President Bill Clinton—