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Taft-Hartley Act

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Banned all-union shops

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Operation Dixie

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wants to unionize southern industries

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Employment Act of 1964

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wants to promote maximum employment, production and purchasing power

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GI Bill

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gives veterans education

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Sunbelt

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fifteen state area stretching from Virginia and California

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Levittown

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Home-construction revolution, suburbs

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baby boom

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huge leap in birthrate in the decade and a half after 1945

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Yalta conference

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meeting of the Big Three in Yalta

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Cold War

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Political war between USA and Soviets

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Bretton Woods Conference

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Establishes International Monetary Fund

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United Nations

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Successor to the League of Nations

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Nuremberg War Crimes Trial

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Puts Nazi war criminals on trial

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Truman Doctrine

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Starts with Greece, gives allies financial support

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Marshall Plan

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Same as Truman

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NATO

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European and American alliance

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House Un-American Activities Committee

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Lead by Nixon, catches the reds for suspicious behavior

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Fair Deal

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Truman’s New Deal

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National Security Council Memorandum Number 68

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Quadruples US military spending

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The Feminine Mystique

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Betty Friedan

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Checkers Speech

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Nixon defends himself

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Army-McCarthy hearings

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McCarthy says US army is red

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Jim Crow Laws

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segregationist

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Montgomery bus boycott

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MLK debut

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Brown v. Board of Education….

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Supreme court rules that segregation in public schools is inherently unequal

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Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee

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Sit in on cafeterias

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Operation Wetback

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Keeps the Beaners out

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Federal Highway Act of 1956

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Eisenhower makes big highway

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policy of boldness

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more bangfor buck nuclear bombers

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Hungarian uprisings

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US sits idle to communist revolt

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Battle of Dien Bien Phu

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Forces allies to split Nam into two

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Suez Crisis

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Egypt nationalizes canal without Brit consent

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Organization of Petroleum exporting countries

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Arab oil alliance

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Kitchen Debate

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Nixon debates Khruschev about the economy

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abstract expressionism

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means wierd things

35
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International style

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steel boxes wrapped in glass

36
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European Economic Community

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freed trade within Europe

37
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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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Sent a bunch of Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro

38
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Freedom Riders

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Sit-inners tryna ends segregation

39
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Voter Education Project

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significant in anti-segregation

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March on Washington

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mLK rally, I have a dream

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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banned racial discrimination in private and pbulic places

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affirmitive action

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LBJ asks all contractors in government to take affirmitive actions towards ending segregation

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Freedom Summer

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voter registration drive in Mississ

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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Black southern democratic branch, denied

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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gives black better access to the ballot

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Black power

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Malcolm X and others wants blacks to destroy white civilization

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Stonewall rebellion

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gay men fight against the police in NYC

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Students for a Democratic Society

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student revolution druggie group

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Earl Warren

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Justice behind end of school segregation

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John Foster Dulles

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Early form of McCarthy

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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Egyptian president

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Jackson Pollock

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abstract expressionist painter

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Andy Warhol

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famous artist

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Eero Saarinen

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International style architect

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Allen Ginsberg

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Beat poet

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Arthur Miller

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Wrote Death of a Salesman

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Ralph Ellison

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black author and playwright

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Attorney General of JFK

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Robert S. McNamara

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Business man and Secretary of Defense

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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First South Vietnam president

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James Meredith

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First black to be accepted into Ole Miss

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Supposed assassin of JFK

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Eugene McCarthy

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Democratic rival of Robert Kennedy

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George C. Wallace`

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Independent part member

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Dewey

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competitor of truman

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Dave Beck

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Union leader sent to prison for embezzlement

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Billy Graham

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TV preacher

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