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Cold war

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1945-1991, 2 enemies not actually fighting but building up military arms and forces to intimidate each other

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Proxy war

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War instigated by major power which doesn’t itself become involved

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Capitalism

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US, you can do whatever you want with your money

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Communism

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USSR, takes your money and distributes it how they think is equal

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Containment

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Keep communism from spreading

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Iron curtain

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Imaginary boundary, dividing Europe into 2 separate areas

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NASA

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National Aeronautics Space Administration (1958 under Eisenhower)

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Hot line

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Line between Moscow and DC

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Flexible response

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JFKs plan to send special troops aboard Green Beret trains to fight Guerrilla Warfare

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Harry Truman

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Committed US to containment—————-

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Joseph Stalin

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Refused Marshall Plan, soviet leader———————

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Fidel Castro

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Important ally to Soviets—————-

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JFK

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Elected in 1960, Cuban misled crisis——————

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Instigated Cuban missile crisis

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Senator Joseph McCarthy

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HUAC, McCarthyism——————————

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Dwight Eisenhower

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John Foster Dulles

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William Levitt

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Created the first mass-produced residential housing development after WW2

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Richard Nixon

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George Kennan

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Wants to take aggressive actions to contain communism

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Lyndon Johnson

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Mao Zedong

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Chiangmai Kai-shek

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General MacArthur

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Killed JFK

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Earl Warren

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Jack Ruby

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Killed the person who was believed to kill JFK

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Truman Doctorine

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A commitment to help countries threatened by communism

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United Nations

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50 nations met in San Francisco, new and improved league of nations

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Marshall Plan

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George Marshall, US provide economic aid to European countries, proposed by Secretary of State

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Berlin Airlift

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US and British cargo planes drop food, fuel, and other supplies into West Berlin for 10 months

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization, US, Canada and 10 other countries

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Warsaw Pact

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1955, Soviets, and communist countries of Eastern Europe

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Nuclear Arms Race

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Race between US, Soviets, Britain, and France to develop nuclear weapons

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Suez Canal

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Trade route between Europe and Asia

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Berlin Wall

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Wall of concrete blocks and barb wire built by East Germany gov w/ Soviet support. Cut off Communication/Travel between E/W Germany

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Hungary Rebellion

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Exposed weakness of Eastern Europe communism

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The U2 Incident

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The Soviets shot down the U2 spy plane and pilot Gary Powers was captured

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962, US planes flew over Cuba and saw they were building missile sites that could be used to bomb US in nuclear war

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Bay of Pigs

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1961, US sends CIA trained Cuban Refugees to Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro, major fail because he finds out about it and is awaiting US, he either captures or kills them all, JFK is humiliated

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Space Race

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US vs USSR who can get 1st on moon

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Sputnik

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Launched by USSR, first man made object to orbit earth

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Apollo 11

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NASA program aimed to land a man on the moon

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Yalta conference

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Potsdam Conference

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HUAC

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House un-American Activities Committee,

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McCarthyism

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Unfounded accusations against alleged communists

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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

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Accused of spying, electric chair

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Krause Fuch

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Soviet spy, 14 years in prison

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Hollywood 10

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Ten editors, authors, etc, communist, arrested, blacklisted

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Beat Generation

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Group of writers who were “weary with all forms of modern industrial state”

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GI Bill

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Gov provided wide range of benefits for WW2 soldiers

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McCarran act

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Requires all communists to register/provide list of members

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White Flight/suburbs

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Middle class, white Americans “take off” to suburbs, leaving behind lands of poverty

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Baby Boom

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Post war, everyone thought it was safe to start families

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Elvis Presley

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King of rock n roll, died in 1977

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Feminine Mystique

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Betty Friedman book describing the frustration and unhappiness of suburban housewives

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Election of 1948

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Greatest upset in election history. Truman (democrat) beats Dewey (republican)

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Election of 1952

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Eisenhower (republican) has a landslide victory over Stevenson (democrat)

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Election of 1960

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JFK (democrat) beats Nixon (republican)

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