7th Grade US History - Chapter 24 - Vocabulary

A program to counter the growth of communism.

• Alliance for Progress

• NAACP

• Warsaw Pact

• Fair Deal

A large amount of births after World War II as a result of many young couples postponing getting married or having children until after the war.

• baby boom

• civil rights

• injunction

• containment

A failed attempt on April 17, 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro, the Communist leader in Cuba.

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cold War

• Korean War

A response to the Soviet Union's blockade to Berlin; For 321 days, the United States made more than 250,000 flights carrying nearly 2.5 million tons of supplies into West Berlin.

• Berlin airlift

• Berlin Wall

• iron curtain

• containment

A wall built around West Berlin to prevent East Germans from escaping into the free city of West Berlin.

• Berlin airlift

• Berlin Wall

• iron curtain

• containment

1954 Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that segregation in public schools violated the equal treatment guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• civil rights movement

• Alliance for Progress

• March on Washington

Rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all American citizens

• civil rights

• civil rights movement

• containment

• injunction

Black Americans struggle for equality

• civil rights

• civil rights movement

• containment

• injunction

Problems between the United States and the Soviet Union; they avoided direct military conflict, but they often disputed

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cold War

• Korean War

The United States policy to contain communism and to stop the Soviets from taking over more governments.

• baby boom

• civil rights

• injunction

• containment