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- 4. bill that established plans for national security and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- 7. – the false belief that God does not exist
- 11. – U.S. plan which offered financial help to European countries that had been harmed during World War II
- 14. – period in which the United States and the Soviet Union threatened to use nuclear weapons against each other
- 15. – Nasa’s first satellite
- 17. – act which provide medical care through health insurance for senior citizens
- 21. – organization formed after World War II in which nations of the world work together to solve problems
- 22. National Aeronautics and Space Administration started by Dwight D Eisenhower
- 23. of 1957 – bill passed to protect the rights of Black Americans to vote in elections, first bill regarding civil rights since the reconstruction
- 24. an agreement to stop fighting
- 25. – organization that sends out young volunteers to help improve living conditions of poor people in nations around the world
- 26. – program in which the United States sent planes loaded with food and supplies to West Berlin, Germany
- 27. – manmade channel connecting the St Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
- 28. War fought from 1950-1953 in which the United Nations especially the United States helped defend South Korea against Communist North Korea
- 29. Amendment – Constitutional amendment stating that if the President dies while in office the vice president will become president
- 30. – wall built by the Soviet Union that separated the Communist and the free parts of Berlin, Germany
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- 1. Amendment – a constitutional amendment which states that a person can serve in the office of president for only two terms
- 2. Missile crisis – situation caused by the Soviet Union’s shipping missiles to Cuba for possible use against the United States
- 3. – the first Black American four star general in the history of the U.S. airforce
- 5. (NATO) group of countries that agreed to defend each other against a Communist invasion
- 6. – conflict between communist North Vietnam and free South Vietnam in which the United States became involved
- 8. - President Johnson’s plan to improve public education, conservation, poverty, crime, and civil rights
- 9. the first American astronaut to orbit the earth
- 10. – policy stating that the United States would use its power to stop the overthrow of a free country
- 12. – 36th President became president after Kennedy’s death
- 13. – System of highways that connect all parts of America
- 16. Intelligence Agency – security organization that gathers information from other countries and provides it to the President of the United States
- 18. – Communist dictator of Cuba
- 19. – 35th president, youngest person elected president, assassinated in Dallas Texas
- 20. - term used for the border that separated Communist countries from the free countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War