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Cold War

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1947-1991

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TET offensive

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January to June 1968

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Battle of Ap bac

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January 1963

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Battle of Dak to

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November 1967

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My Lai massacre

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March 1968

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USSR gave north

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Vietnam US1 billion each year during the height of the war

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Battle of Khe Sanh

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1409 Americans killed and 7000 wounded

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Operation rolling thunder launched

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Feb 7 1965 which included extensive bombing in north Vietnam

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NATO

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Established April 4th 1919

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NATO members

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12

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UN

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24 October 1945 with 51 nations

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UN created at

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San Francisco at the conference of international organisations

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Hiroshima

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6 August 1945 Erola gay

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Nagasaki

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Bock’s car

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Bock’s car

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Killed 40,000 people within minutes

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Marshall plan

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15 nations received funding
Increased industrial production in Germany by 35%
51% of Americans had not heard of it

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Cuban missile crisis

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Us controlled 90% of Cuban mines

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Castro signed a trade pact

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In February 1960 with the USSR which resulted j diplomatic ties being cut with the U,S by Jan 1961

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In April 1960

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The cia trained and equipped 1400 men to invade Cuba after landing on the beach in the bay of pigs

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Bay of pigs

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100 men killed

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Operation mongoose

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A ban on Cuban imports to the us and ban on travel to Cuba

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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

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The Cold War could have been avoided only if the Soviet Union had not been possessed by convictions both of the infallibility of the communist word and of the inevitability of the communist world

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Daniel Leab

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The us and its allies tried to convince their citizens that they lived the best possible society. It may not have been as free as the propaganda asserted but it did boast free markets, limited government, the rule of law, individualism and human rights

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Enderlin

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The Marshall plan set out to help only those who accepted it

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John Lewis Gaddis

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Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country and his ideology, in precisely that order

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Michael hart

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The west had no way of ending the conflict

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IB standard history project

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The Cold War was caused by fear not aggression

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March on Washington

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More than 250,000 petitioners

August 28 1963

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Freedom riders

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May 29 1961 more and more join

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Kkk

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Average of 150 lynchings between 1882 and 1910

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Death of emmett till

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1955

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African Americans

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Made up more than 75% of buses

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Montage dry bus boycott

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Involved 35,000 petitioners and ended on the 21st of December 1956

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Sit ins

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On Monday fen 1st 1960 four young black men sat in a white diner

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By the next day

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There were 23 students and before the week passed there were more than 400

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Defiance campaign

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1952 when the ANC attempted to appease the youth league

Approx 8500 people arrested

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Freedom charter

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1955 wanted lots of things such as freedom to vote, fair trial before imprsionment, right to speak etc.

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Soweto riots

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1976 government schools were to teach in the language of Afrikaans

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8000-10000 students protested at

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Naledi high school

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Steve Biko

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Created Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)

Died in 1977

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Truth and reconciliation commission

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Anyone who felt they had been a victim of violence could come forward with a petition

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Truth and reconciliation results

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5392 people refused amnesty and 849 were granted

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1964 civil rights act

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Over 70% of the American vote went to Kennedy

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Battle of little rock

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9 students went to an all white school

45
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Virginia historical society

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Although brown death only with discrimination in education it effectively sounded the death knell for the whole Kim crow system of second class citizenship

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Richard Malone

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The boycott buses in Montgomery Alabama sparked the civil rights movement

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Richard Malone 2

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The key feature of the sit in were that the protests were totally peaceful

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Eric Foner

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Helped spark other social protest movements

49
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Clarence Taylor

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The movement was also important because it helped eradicate the American apartheid system

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