23-24 U.S. Unit 5 Vocab

9. Nations politically and economically dominated or controlled by another, more powerful country.
11. A prominent Kentucky leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
13. The political and military barrier that isolated Soviet-controlled countries after WW2.
14. Senator from Wisconsin who claimed communists had infiltrated the American government.
15. The popular name for the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act that allowed military personnel to get loans, job training, hiring privileges, and tuition incentives from the Veterans Administration.
16. An economic system characterized by the private or corporate ownership of goods with the distribution of goods determined by competition in a free market.
17. Vietnamese soldiers who fought against the government of South Vietnam; also known as the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam.

1. A U.S. program of financing to help European nations rebuild after WW2.
2. The policy or process of preventing the expansion of a hostile power.
3. The willingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down.
4. the official ending of the policy of segregation.
5. the phenomenon of white people moving out of urban areas, particularly those with significant minority populations, and into suburban areas.
6. Conflict over ideological differences that does not involve warfare or overt military action.
7. An economic system in which the production of goods is controlled by the state.
8. The belief that if one nation in Asia fell to the Communists, neighboring countries would follow.
9. suburbs or the people living in them considered as an identifiable community or class in society.
10. segregation by custom and tradition.
12. segregation by law, such as Jim Crow laws.