| Truman | | Sent troops to Little Rock to protect black students |
| Cesar Chavez | | Rachel Carson book about pesticides |
| Neil Armstrong | | First man to walk on the moon |
| Ford | | Broke down racial barriers with his music |
| GIBill | | Only president in history who was not elected. |
| Chiang KaiShek | | South Vietnamese who supported North Vietnam |
| My Lai | | Site of a massacre in Vietnam |
| Kent State | | NATO is an example of this |
| Warsaw Pact | | Organized the United Farmworkers Union |
| Wounded Knee | | Civil rights leader; practiced civil disobedience |
| Ho Chi Minh | | Red Scare during the 1950s |
| AIM | | Confronted the Soviet Union and won during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Nixon | | Created the New Deal to try to end the Depression |
| Yalta | | Site of a college protest; four students died |
| Iron Curtain | | Middle east organization; controls the price of oil |
| Marshall Plan | | U.S. promised to help countries oppose communism |
| Kennedy | | Community of mass produced homes |
| collective security | | created by congress tohelp WWII vets with mortgages and college |
| Jackie Robinson | | Authorized the use of the atomic bomb in Japan |
| Truman Doctrine | | Attempt to overthrow Castro |
| McCarthyism | | Organized by Dennis Banks and Russell Means |
| Jim Crow | | Symbol of Cold War tensions; created to prevent an escape route from communism |
| Eisenhower | | Broke the color barrier in baseball |
| Watergate | | WWII conference that led to accusations that Democrats were soft on communism |
| Silent Spring | | Led the nationalists in the Chinese civil war |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | | Alliance of Eastern European communist countries. |
| Bay of Pigs | | Name for laws that separated blacks and whites |
| Tet Offensive | | Civil rights workers rode buses into the South |
| Berlin Wall | | Only president to resign from office |
| Levittown | | Johnson's domestic policy |
| Martin Luther King | | Scandal; led to Nixon's resignation |
| Roosevelt | | South Vietnamese leader |
| Freedom Rides | | U.S. economic plan to rebuild Europe after WWII |
| Mao Zedong | | Communist countries in Eastern Europe |
| OPEC | | North Vietnamese leader |
| Elvis | | Turning point of the Vietnam War |
| Viet Cong | | Occupied by Native Americans; site of a massacre |
| Great Society | | Leader of communist revolution in China |
