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Vocabulary 1
Chapters 28 (p.799-804) and 29

• Dwight Eisenhower: was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.
• The Cold War: was a sustained state of political andmilitary tension between the powers of the Western world, led by the United States and its NATO allies, and the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, its satellite states and allies.
• John F.Kennedy: was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
• The ‘whiz kids’:
• Hard-nosed idealists:
• Alliance for Progress: initiated by U.S.President John F. Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
• Peace Corps: proved tremendous public relations success and helped thousands of ThirdWorld farmers on a people to people basis.
• Bay of Pigs: was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the USgovernment, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• Nuclear brinkmanship: is the practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of—or to the brink of—disaster in order toachieve the most advantageous outcome
• Jim Crow Laws: were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilitiesin Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.
• Civil Rights Movement: was a worldwide political movement for equalitybefore the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980.
• CORE: Congress of Racial Equality
• NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• SNCC: Student NonviolentCoordinating Committee
• Thurgood Marshall: was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.

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