Important+Vocabulary


 * Important Vocabulary**


 * **Democracy-** The Government is for the people, there is no dictator, the leader is elected.
 * **Totalitarianism-** A political idea where a leader has complete control.
 * **Communism-** An economic idea, a method for controlling work and distributing goods and jobs.
 * **Tsar-** Like an emperor, comes from the word Caesar because he was such an important leader in Ancient Rome.
 * **Dictator-** A tyrant who makes people do what he wants.
 * **Iron Curtain**- A pretend wall that was separating Soviet Russia from the rest of the world, it was blocking out truth and freedom.
 * **Jim Crow-** A fictional character, represents the separation of races.
 * **Marshall Plan-** A plan created by President Truman, sent billions of dollars to other countries, even enemies.
 * **Point Four-** Another one of Truman's plans, gave aid to Third World countries.
 * **Truman Doctrine-** America helped other countries that were subjected to communism.
 * **"Solid South"-** The South was nicknamed this because they had most often voted Democratic until the 1948 election.
 * **Berlin Wall-** Divided West and East Germany. Nobody could get across the wall- if they tried, they were shot.
 * **Bay of Pigs**-This is the invasion where the Cuban citizens and Americans tried to overthrow the communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
 * **Cuban Missile Crisis-** Russia put missiles in Cuba facing America's major cities. For 13 days a World War III was on the line.
 * **Policy of Containment-** America was trying to stop communism from spreading.
 * **38th Parallel-** The line that divided North and South Korea.
 * **Red Scare-** Lead by Joseph McCarthy, everyone in America feared communism and many people were killed because people thought they were communists even if they weren't.
 * **Integration-**Mixing people of all races and religions; the opposite of segregation.
 * **Peace Corps-** JFK came up with this idea; America could send people to help those in less fortunate countries.
 * **"I Have a Dream"-** Martin Luther King's most famous speech, was read in Washington D.C, inspired many.
 * **Dallas-** This is where JFK was assassinated.
 * **My Lai-** an invasion of this village where American soldiers shot and and burned homes
 * **Feminine Mystic-** a book written by Betty Friedan and was published in 1963
 * **Traditionalists-**This group of women believed that ladies should remain as housewives and that careers took away from this responsibility
 * **Cotton Gin-** A machine that is used for separating cotton from the seeds. It could do the work of many people, cotton workers were no longer needed.
 * **//I Love Lucy//-** a popular show about a suburban housewife
 * **Hippies-** People in the 1960s who were against the culture- they didn't act like everyone else. They were firmly against the war and believed in peace.
 * **Counterculture-** Behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a population. Counter means against, people in counterculture were against the normal culture.
 * **Dominate-** To be a master of or command
 * **Rivals**-competitors
 * **Blatant-** means to be obvious
 * **Exile-** is to throw someone out of his or her own country
 * **Oust**- is to throw out
 * **Ominous**- is to threaten
 * **Vindictive**-someone who wants revenge
 * **Discrimination**-choosing with reasoning that is unfair
 * **Lynching**- an illegal form of execution by hanging someone.
 * **Hysteria**- to exaggerate an emotion from fear or horror
 * **Detest**- to hate or loathe.
 * **Clamor**- to bother someone noisily for something they did
 * **Lobby**-a group that persuades different politicians to believe what it wants.
 * **Recession**- a period of time that is an economic decline.
 * **Rational**- when something is reasonable.
 * **Pension**- a retirement pay
 * **Martyr**- someone who is sacrificed for a cause
 * **Ghetto**-is a city where poor people live and are crowded together
 * **Flourish**- is to thrive
 * **Liberals-** People who believe it would make things more fair if we taxed the rich more than the poor in order to pay for the poor people
 * **Conservatives-** Believe that unrestricted capitalism leads to opportunity which helps everyone
 * **Balanced Budget-** Was when your annual spending equaled your annual revenues
 * **Deficit-** When you spend more money than what you are earning
 * **Surplus-** When you spend less money that what you are earning
 * **Common Market-** The Common Market is what the European nations had all formed together to make.