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Letters

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The most powerful body of the what the security council is responsible for maintaining international peace

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United Nations

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The two leading communist nations that opposed the United States during the Cold War where what and what

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Soviet Union and China

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The worst responded with the word after the Soviets blocked all ground traffic into and out of West Berlin

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Berlin airlift

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Who commanded the UN troops in Korea during the Korean conflict

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General Douglas Mac Arthur

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On January 1, 1959 the government of Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by the rebel army of what

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Fidel Castro

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The word war was the longest military conflict in the history of United States

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Vietnam

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Astronaut who was the first American to orbit the earth and who was the first astronaut to walk on the moon

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John Glenn Junior… Neil Armstrong

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The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka declared that racial segregation in public schools was what

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Unconstitutional

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Who was the civil rights leader assassinated in Tennessee

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Martin Luther King Junior

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Under threat of impeachment due to his involvement in the Watergate scandal who resigned in 1974

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Richard Nixon

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Who was the first president not elected to either device presidency or the presidency

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Gerald Ford

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Ownership of the Panama Canal was handed over to during that Carter administration

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Panama

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Who ruled Iran after this shah was disposed

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Iranian militants took how many American hostages and Amanda did the return of the shah

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66

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The first female Supreme Court Justice was who

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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President Reagan off the rise military action on who to prevent her from becoming a Soviet outpost

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Granada

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After the cold war Boris Yeltsin became the first president of what

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Russia

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Division of Kuwait by who in 1990 let the Persian gulf war

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Iraq

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President Clinton twice vetoed the word which would have made partial-birth abortion illegal

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Partial birth abortion’s band act

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In 1995 the Alfred P Murrah federal building in where was destroyed by a truck bomb

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Oklahoma City

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Thousands of people for Haiti and try to enter where after the overthrow of Aristide

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United States

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Civil War begin in Bosnia because what

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This serves opposed independence from Yugoslavia

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After operation Desert Storm Iraq violated her agreement to destroy all her chemical and biological weapons and to allow who to conduct a thorough investigation of all weapon facilities

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The United States

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The work of 2002 was designed to give all American children equal educational opportunities

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No Child left behind act

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On what date the worst terrorist act upon United States soil cumulated in the distruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and extensive damage to the Pentagon near Washington DC

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September 11, 2001

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Who and his terrorist organization we’re behind the terrorist attack

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Osama bin Ladin

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Overthrowing the Taliban, capturing Osama bin Laden, and destroying the Al Qaeda terrorist network was the three-part objective for what

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War on terror

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President George W. Bush order the invasion of what in March 2003 because he was informed by military intelligence that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction

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Iraq

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Who, the first African-American candidate to be nominated for president won the election of 2008 and became the 44th president of the United States

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Barack Obama

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