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Chapter 21-23 Flashcards

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Determined: separate is not equal

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Brown v. Board of education

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Unprecedented growth in population post WWII

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Baby boom

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Government agency for volunteers to help underdeveloped nations

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Peace corps

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Presidency during the “Camelot” era

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John F. Kennedy

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Guilty of treason

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Alger hiss

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Use of lies, distortion, and innuendo to destroy another person

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McCarthyism

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Stood from 1961-1989

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Berlin Wall

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Khrushchev put long range missiles 90 miles fro our shore

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Cuban missile crisis

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Our CIA failed to create democracy in Cuba

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Bay of Pigs

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Post Korea foreign policy regarding communism

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Peaceful coexistence

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Eisenhower’s belief: communism in Asia

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Domino theory

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Code name: fat man and little boy

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Atomic bomb

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Demand for Japan’s unconditional surrender

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Potsdam

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The attempted genocide of the Jewish nation by hitler

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Holocaust

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Young men used for suicide flights in WII

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kamikazes

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Securing air bases on less-fortified islands in the pacific

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Island hopping

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Winter in the Ardennes forest

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Battle of the bulge

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June 6, 1994- largest amphibious attack in history

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D-day invasion

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Led by Eisenhower, land troops in Africa

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Operation torch

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General of German panzer division

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Erwin Rommel

21
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Civil rights protest: I Have A Dream Speech

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March on Washington

22
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National war effort limiting various goods

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Rationing

23
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December 7, 1941- Japanese attack on pacific fleet

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Pearl Harbor

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FDR’s program to assist Great Britain with supplies and industry

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Lend-lease

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Erosion of farm lands due to over producing in the 1930’s

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Dust bowl

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Provisions given to the unemployed during the depression

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Bread lines

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Share the wealth- socialism candidate

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Huey long

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Bank accounts insured by the federal government

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FDIC

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Project to build dams along the Tennessee river

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TVA

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Helped debt ridden farmers keep their land

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AAA

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Created jobs and build roads, public buildings and parks

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WPA

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FDR’s weekly talk with America via radio broadcast

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Fireside Chats

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FDR’S promise to the American people after the depression

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New deal

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Fired upon by MacArthur during the Hoover Presidency

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Bonus army

35
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Highest tariff in american history: destroyed foreign trade

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Smooth-Hawley tariff

36
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Caused by many factors, including the crash of ‘29

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Great Depression

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