Allied invasion to liberate Europe

American general who led American forces at Normandy.

American General who helped liberate Paris

-German Counteroffensive (Defense) in December 1944

Government agency that decided which companies would make war materials and how to distribute supplies for the military

Secret research project that resulted in the atomic bomb

Interracial organization formed to fight discrimination

Confinement under guard, especially during wartime.

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military

American Commander in the Philippines

Forced march of captured American and Filipino troops

American victory that was the turning point in the pacific war

Allies method of combining land, sea and air forces to capture and secure islands.

Japanese suicide flight

World peacekeeping organization created after WW2.

Victory in Europe Day, May 8th 1945

state of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action.

-taking measures to prevent the spread of communist rule to other countries.

agency created to compile intelligence from the military and state department and to perform secret operations in foreign countries.

-u.s. policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a communist takeover.

defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations.

33rd President of the US

City that was the site of the first atomic bomb drop in Japan.

Law passed by Congress to help servicemen readjust to civilian life.

Leader of the Nationalist forces in China

Leader of Communist forces in China

Island off the coast of China

Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north latitude

War began when North Korea invaded South Korea 1950

An international contest between countries seeking military advantage over each other

34th president of the United States

Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite nation

Soviet Leader

Downing of a US spy Plane and the Capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960.

35th President of the US. During Cuban Missile War

Theory that one country falling to Communist influence would lead to others.

36th President of the US. During Vietnam War

Ruler of Cuba

Barrier built to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin.

Leader of North Vietnam

Peace agreement that split Vietnam in two

Cmmunist rebel group in South Vietnam

Network of paths running between North and South Vietnam

Resolution that allowed President Johnson to fight in Vietnam.

Gasoline-based explosive.

Chemical that destroyed jungle land.

Tactic in which U.S. troops destroyed Vietnamese villages.

Situation in which the U.S. public no longer believed the Johnson  administration.

Act that forbids the president from mobilizing troops without congressional approval.

Definition: Site of protest where the National Guard killed four students.

Site of massacre of Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers.

President Nixon’s plan for ending America's involvement in the war.

President of the United States, elected 1968.

African AMerican lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregation.

Supreme Court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional

Woman who help start Montgomery bus boycott.

Leader of the Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Organization

Civil Rights activist who tried to end segregation on national buses

African American who won enrollment to the all white University of Mississippi.

Law that outlawed racial discrimination

Name of project of win voting rights for southern blacks

Act that struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting.

38th President, pardon Nixon for Watergate

39th President. Energy Crisis President

Law that aimed to conserve energy

Rights and freedoms that all people should enjoy

Iranian religious leader who led the revolution against the shah of Iran

Program that guarantees benefits to particular groups

programs that required special consideration for racial and ethnic minorities and women

favoring one group over another on the basis of races or gender even though they might not be necessarily better qualifed.

40th President

Reagan’s Vice president, 41st president in 1988.

the constitutional process for removing a president from office

scandal that forced Nixon to resign

attorney general and director of Nixon’s reelection campaign

Nixon’s campaign committee

Nixon’s firing of justice department officials, including the special prosecutor investigating watergate

Governor of Arkansas who became president. Great Economic time

First lady and health care reformer

Extremely successful owner of Microsoft a computer software company

Computer industry executive who founded apple Inc.

Trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the US

43rd president of US

Saudi Arabian millionaire who directed terrorist attakcs of 9/11

A global militant Islamist orgnaization based in Afghanistan

Strict Fundamentalist Islamic regime

Biological,chemical, and nuclear weapons