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what event caused stalin to blockade west berlin in 1949

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allied attempts to unify west germany

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the objective of the taft-hartley act was to

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weaken unions

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frozen chosin was to

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brave fight near a reservoir where american soldiers were attacked by the Chinese

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this phrase best describes postwar society in America

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consumer culture

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the truman doctrine was developed when the soviets attempted to gain control of greece and

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turkey

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the national security act created all of the following except the

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federal bureau investigation

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permanent members of this agency have veto power

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security council

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the location of the most dramatic standoff over the desegregation of public schools

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little rock ,Arkansas

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term coined to describe accusations based on lies distortion and innuendo

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McCarthyism

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enduring transportation program Eisenhower instituted

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interstate highway system

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National leader in China

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chiang Keiashek

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communist leader in China

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Mao Zedong

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commander of the UN military forces in Korea

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Doaglas Macarthur

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Anti-communist leader in South Vietnam

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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communist leader in North vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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east Germany begin building this in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the West

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berlin wall

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government organization set forth by John Kennedy that was formed to send skilled volunteers overseas to help under-devoloped nations

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peace corps

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1961 operation against communist cuba that was a disaster

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bay of pigs

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weapon developed by the united states in 1952 was far more powerful than the atomic bomb

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hydrogen bomb

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the trails of Nazi was criminals

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numremberg trails

21
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nickname that was given to the conservation southern democrats who joined the state’s rights party in 1948 and supported strom thurman

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dixiecrats

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the name for a widespread fear of communsim that occured after WW1 and after WW2

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red scare

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the large civil rights protest where Martin Luther King gave his “I have dream “ speech

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march on washington

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the leader of the soviet union during the cuban missile crisis

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nikkita khrushev

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the belief that if one country in a region fell to communism the neighboring countries would fall one by one

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domino theory

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postwar tension between the united states and the soviet union

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cold war

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separation of Eastern Europe from the west

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iron curtain

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policy of resistance to continuing communist aggression

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containment

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used spies to gain info on foreign affairs

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CIA

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belief in helping businesses while helping human beings

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dynamic conservation

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helped restore the economics of western Europe

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Marshall plan

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massive rise in the birth rate from 1945-1964

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Baby boom

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movement pushed for the equality to the races

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civil rights moment

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US and soviet union to settle tensions between them without military confrontation

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peaceful coexistance

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communist leader in Cuba

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Fidel Castro

36
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advocated the fair deal

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Harry Truman

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advocated “Dynamic conservation”

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Eisenhower

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advocated the new frontier

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John F. Kennedy

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Dixiecrat candidate

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Strom Thurmond

40
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who did not have communist ties

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Joseph Mcarthy

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what country was not communist

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Austria

42
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what is not related to united nations

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Peace cord

43
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who was not a presidental candidate in election 1948

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Richard Nixon

44
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what descesion was rendered in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

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end segregation in all schools

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