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juvenile delinquency |
antisocial and illegal behavior of young people |
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James Meredith |
African American Air Force veteran who attempted to attend the University of Mississippi |
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“creeping socialism” |
Eisenhower’s term for the federal government’s continuing aid to businesses |
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Freedom Riders |
teams of African Americans and whites who traveled into the Southern states to draw attention to the segregation of the bus terminals |
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poverty line |
a figure (dollar amount) the government set to reflect the minimum income required to support a family |
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Neil Armstrong |
first astronaut to step onto the moon |
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Operation Rolling Thunder |
sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam by the United States |
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Rachel Carson |
wrote Silent Spring which contributed to the limitation of the sale of DDT in the U.S. |
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Vietcong |
a guerrilla army organized by Ho Chi Minh to reunify the nation |
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Three Mile Island |
nuclear facility that leaked low levels of radiation and faced a possible meltdown |
