Cold War Vocabulary Visual Preview Review

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Fidel Castro-revolutionary/communist leader who took over diplomatic power in Cuba.

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Bay of Pigs Invasion–April 17th, 1961 1500 Cuban exiles whose objective to overthrow the Cuban govt., failed miserably as they faced 25,000 Cuban troops that were back up by Soviet tanks.

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Cuban Missile Crisis-October 14th-October 28th, 1962 where the U.S. and Soviet Union/Cuba came very close to a nuclear war.

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Berlin Wall-a concrete wall topped with barbed wire that severed the city in two (communism/democracy). **Berlin Airlift

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Warren Commission-Commission put together to investigate the death of JFK and ruled that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in his assassination of JFK.

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Melting Pot- a mixture of people, cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs.

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Salad Bowl- when people of various cultures/immigrants do not lose the unique aspects of their cultures like in the melting pot model, instead they retain them

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Racism-certain racial groups/cultures receive preferential treatment, while others are discriminated (Raisin in the Sun, Holocaust, Civil Rights Movement).

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Feminism-political, cultural, and economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women.

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American Dream-is a term that is derived from the Declaration of Independence & our founding fathers: "…held certain truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Often times this pursuit of happiness is having a nice house, 2.5 kids and a white picket fence.

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The Great Migration- The movement of 1.75 million African Americans out of the Southern U.S. to the North and Midwest and West from the early 1900’s -1930.

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