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1
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Did the US prosper after WWI?

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Yes

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Isolationism

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  • stay out of everyone else’s economy
  • let people fight with themselves
  • policy to obtain peace
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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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  • agreement between nations to ban war

- does not last

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Washington naval conference

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  • between US, Japan, and Russia
  • limits number of ships nation can have
  • US has twice as many ships as Japan bc we have two coasts
  • aimed to preserve peace
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Good neighbor policy

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  • a good neighbor to other nations

- stop invading

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Did isolation produce peace?

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No

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Benito Mussolini

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  • fascist leader of Italy

- loved ,great warrior, great technician

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What crisis was happening in Germany at the beginning of the war?

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  • economic depression
  • looking for new leader
  • found hitler
  • nazi party formed
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When does WWII start

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When Japan invades Manchuria

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Invasion of Manchuria

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  • brutal invasion
  • Japanese uses civilians as target practice
  • rape used as weapon of war
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11
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Who does Italy invade before WWII

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Northern Africa

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How does hitler fix Germany’s economy

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  • did not pay furor actions
  • built up military which gave jobs
  • violates treaty of Versailles
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Neutrality acts

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Not allowed to sell and ship goods involved in war

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Civil war in Spain

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  • Fransisco Franko leader of coup against democratic elected Spanish
  • USA does not help
  • Mussolini sends supplies and hitler sends troops
  • Spain becomes allies with Germany and Italy
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Anti-cominterm pact

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Italy, Japan, Germany sign pact of friendship

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16
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Where did Germany have a bloodless coup?

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Austria but he wasn’t allowed

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Appeasement

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  • France and GB allow German aggression as long as it stops

- then it happens over and over again

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What did hitler and Stalin do on August 24, 1939

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Sign a nonaggression act

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What did Germany do September 1, 1939

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  • Invade Poland

- France and GB declare war

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What outposts in the pacific did Japan seize

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Solomon and Marshall

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Germany seized ______ quickly and then conquered _____

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Poland & France, Norway, Denmark, and Belgium

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Germany bombed _____ nightly

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London

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German invasion of Soviet Union

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  • broke friend pact
  • invaded and nearly captured Moscow
  • very cold so Germany took a while to win
  • fighting in summer clothes in harsh winter
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What German ally invades North Africa

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Italy

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Lend lease

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  • instead of selling great British weapons and supplies, we lend them
  • and lease British bases
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Stopping oil exports to Japan

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  • we don’t want to go to war with Germany and Japan at once
  • we stop sending oil and iron to Japan
  • we tell them to get rid of pact of friendship with Germany
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Pearl Harbor

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  • Japanese destroys Arizona
  • kills 1000’s of men
  • we declare war
  • Germany declare war on US
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What happened when Japan pushed US troops out of the Philippines

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  • 30,000 Americans surrendered to Japan
  • we were not prepared
  • captured and had to do death march
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What was the US like at the beginning if the war

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Struggling bc Pearl Harbor wrecked out navy

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Who did we join in alliance with

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France, British, China, and SU

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Battle of midway

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  • Japan wants midway
  • we translate Japanese secret code
  • Japan attacks Alaska to get into midway
  • US defeats Japan
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32
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Who did the island hopping campaign

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USA

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Battle of Stalingrad

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  • in city of Stalingrad
  • a million people died
  • Germany v SU
  • SU wins
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Final solution

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  • hitler orders the killing of many Jews because he knows defeat is inevitable
  • hitler and his wife commit suicide
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35
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What happened after we bomb Japanese

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  • They respond with kamikaze pilots

- they are running out of gas because we cut their oil supply

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Harry Truman

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  • never expected to be prez
  • plan to attack Japan BUT would cost 500,000 troops
  • so we drop atomic bomb @ Nagasaki
  • Japan surrenders
  • end of WWII
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37
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What ends the Great Depression?

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WWII

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38
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What did they do to get people behind the war effort

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Used cartons and ads

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39
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Why did women work in the workforce

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Because men were at war

  • mixed messages of women’s standards
  • Rosie the riveter
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Sharecropping during this time

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  • breaking down

- AA pushed off land

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41
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What did the GI bill do

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Allowed soldiers to go to college for free

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42
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A. Phillip Randolph

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  • labor union leader
  • threatens to hold march in Washington
  • FDR calls him into White house and Randolph says he would call off march if he desegregates military and defense industry’s
    ex: people who make guns
  • FDR only desegregated defense industries
  • 150,000 AA get jobs
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43
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How were Japanese treated in the war

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  • racism via cartoons after Pearl Harbor
  • put in Japanese internment camps
  • forced to move and sell belongings
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Cold War

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Super powers= SU & USA
Under Truman
“The buck stops here”

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Containment and who made it

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Contain the spread of communism

Made by George Keenan

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Truman doctrine

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Greece and turkey being taken by communist

USA gives $400,000,000 to them to stop spread communism

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47
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What side of Europe was communist

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East and line separating them is iron curtain

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48
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Marshall plan

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  • All European countries and soviets can have money as long as they become free of communism
  • give them $13 billion
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49
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What sections was Berlin broken into

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  • communist
  • American
  • British
  • France
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50
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Communist blockade what side of Berlin

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  • Western side
  • we air dropped supplies
  • and then blockade ended and we could they let us give supplies
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51
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What two movies held an example for communism

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  • Rocky 4

- red dawn

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52
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NATO

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  • North Atlantic treaty organization
  • US, Canada, France, GB
  • one goes to war, everyone goes to war (Cold War)
  • opposite Warsaw Pact (Eastern European pact)
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53
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Warsaw Pact

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Eastern European Pact

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54
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National security act

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  • make sure Pearl Harbor doesn’t happen again
  • department of defense
  • CIA
  • national security council
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55
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Why is the US the strongest military

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A bomb

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56
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Who was mao

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Chairman of china who becomes communist

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57
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Nuclear arms race

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MAD = mutual assured destruction

If war starts everyone dies

58
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Korean War

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  • north attacks south
  • conquers all but small portion
  • US helps get their land back
  • they have a sease fire
  • boards are still the same today
59
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President Truman

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  • incredibly unpopular
  • desegregated military
  • splits democrats into three
60
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What three sections did Truman split democrats into

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  • progressives: Henry Wallace
  • normal democrats: Truman
  • Dixiecrats: storm Thurman
61
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Who did Truman go against his first term

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Dewey

62
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Alger hiss

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St. Department official and gives secrets to SU

63
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Federal employee loyalty program

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Bosses can investigate employees that might be communist

64
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Reasons why people were accused of communist

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  • in debt
  • alcoholic
  • gay

These could lead to them getting fired

65
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HUAC

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  • House UnAmerican Activities Committee
  • investigated actors in Hollywood who may be communist
  • those actors were blacklisted
66
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Joseph McCarthy

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  • alcoholic from Wisconsin
  • giving speech in Virginia and say he has list of people who are communist and says Truman isn’t doing anything about it
  • accuses everyone of being communist
67
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McCarthyism

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Using fear with no evidence for no political gain

68
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The Rosenberg

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  • Julius and Ethel

- executed for treason after selling secrets of SU

69
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President Eisenhower

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  • first republican since Hoover
  • terrible president
  • elected 1952
70
Q

What did Eisenhower do?

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  • creates interstate system
  • for national defense system
  • economy thrives
71
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What were some foreign policy mistakes made under Eisenhower?

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  • we split Vietnam into two
  • communist and democratic
  • Eisenhower is first prez to send troops to Vietnam
72
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What was happening with Iran under Eisenhower

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  • Iran was cozy with SU

- our CIA throws over Iran leader and bring in one we like

73
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What was Cuba like under Eisenhower

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  • pitista is leader/ dictator
  • Fidel Castro wants to nationalize business so we don’t allow goods from them
  • communist
74
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What was Russia like under Eisenhower

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  • Stalin died
  • Kruskev takes office
  • Russia shot our U-2 plane down
75
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What was US after WWII

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  • economic boom

- baby boom

76
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Levitowns after WWII

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  • Houses bomb by William Levit

- parallel symmetrical houses

77
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Rise of the sunbelt

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  • air conditioning

- companies can now move down south

78
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Who was June cleaver

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  • stereotypical house wife
  • woman have NO rights
  • “I Love Lucy” defy norms
79
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What is a beatnik

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A hippie

80
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What did jack kerouac do

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  • Wrote “on the road”

- coined term beatniks

81
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Who was Betty Friedan

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  • wrote “the feminine mystique”

- about modern woman’s rights movement

82
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Rachel Carson

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  • wrote “silent spring”
  • modern environmental movement
  • because there was dissolving fish in rivers
83
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Brown v Board of Edu.

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  • rules against segregation
  • AA buy own busses
  • things don’t desegregate immediately
84
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Rosa parks

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  • sat in back section of bus
  • whites came on and she told to move back
  • she didn’t so got arrested
  • shows nonviolent boycotts is successful
85
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Autherine Lucy

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  • attempts to desegregate university if Alabama
  • but she’s black and a riot broke out
  • expelled
86
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Little Rock 9

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  • central high school in Arkansas decided to let 9 AA into school
  • national guard called out
  • escorted by army
87
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Steam Thurmond

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  • in SC politics for long time
  • Dixiecrat nominee
  • civil rights bill
88
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Nixon v Kennedy 1960

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Election very close but Kennedy wins

89
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Berlin under Kennedy

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Leader: Khrushchev

  • has Berlin Wall built
  • up for 28 years
90
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Vietnam under Kennedy

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  • Kennedy escalated war after Kennedy

- extra troops

91
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Bay of pigs

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  • invasion of Cuba that starts revolution
  • we only send 14,000
  • to overthrow Fidel Castro
  • Cuba slaughters our troops
  • Castro wants protection so they befriend SU
92
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Cuban missile crisis

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  • We find Cuba has missiles
  • we tell them to get rid of them
  • SU has navy ships near Cuba
  • we have quarantined Cuba
  • SU calls off ships
  • we nearly escape WW3
93
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Freedom rides

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  • integrated bus ride to south
  • stop at Virginia = use bathrooms unsegregated
  • stop at Atlanta = meet Martian Luther king
  • stop at Alabama = mob shows up and beat bus
  • stop at Birmingham = injures everyone
94
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James Meredith

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  • Wants to desegregate ole miss
  • he does
  • national guard came when he enrolled
  • people die as result
95
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George Wallace

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  • gov of Alabama

- “seg now, and later”

96
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Fred Shuttlesworth

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  • AA in Birmingham
  • held protest and children were beaten
  • people now was to desegregate
  • “end it today”
97
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Kennedy assassination

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  • November 22, 1963

- Johnson becomes prez

98
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What was freedom summer

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  • People go to Mississippi and get African-Americans registered to vote
  • two white and a black killed by cops
  • cops are prosecuted by federal government
99
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Who is John Lewis

A
  • hope to get people to register to vote but they were put in jail
  • State barred civil rights activities
100
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Holden march from Selma to Montgomery

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  • get stopped by police and get beaten

- call bloody Sunday

101
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Voting rights act 1965

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  • Took away literacy test
  • interpretation clause
  • and taxes
  • have a great effect on elections
102
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What was Lyndon Johnson’s great Society

A
  • war against poverty
  • Headstart program
  • elementary and secondary education program
103
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Elementary and secondary education act

A

Gave $1 million to schools

104
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Medicare and Medicaid

A

Insurance for Poor and disabled

105
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Golf of Tonkin resolution

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  • President is allowed to do anything to protect US lives or US interests
  • so we put more money and more troops into Vietnam
106
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Tet offensive

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  • brutal attack from north Vietnam/Vietcong on south Vietnam
  • Vietcong attacks US Embassy
  • US wins these battles
107
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Malcolm X

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  • believed in segregation
  • likes black culture
  • shot and killed
108
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Stokely Carmichael

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  • was trying to register African-Americans in rural Alabama
  • wanted to move away from nonviolence but promoted self-defense
  • coined phrase “black power”
109
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Black Panthers

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  • founders are Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
  • scary African-American group
  • not like Martin Luther King
110
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Cesar Chavez

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  • fights for Hispanic rights
  • bilingual education for kids
  • minimum wage for farmworkers
111
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Richard Nixon

A
  • evil and intelligent
  • for affirmative action
  • neighborhood schools which were racist
112
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Affirmative action

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  • Women and African-Americans more job rights

- even if a white man don’t get the job

113
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Southern strategy

A
  • using race to win elections

- Reagan uses it

114
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How was Nixon famous for foreign-policy

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  • opened up China (ping-pong match)
  • visit to China and freaks out so be at union
  • this basically ends the Cold War
115
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Houche men trail

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  • Route between North and South Vietnam that the US was against
  • trill went between Laos and Cambodia
  • so we bomb them
116
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Watergate

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  • Nixon ordered the break-in of Watergate building aka international Democratic headquarters
  • Woodward and Bernstein discovered scandal
  • Nixon hides secret tapes
  • supreme Court says he has to give them over
  • he gives tapes but with information deleted
  • Nixon resigns August 1974
117
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Gerald ford

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  • President after Nixon

- only president not to be elected

118
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What is Title 9

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  • women’s attempt to equal sports

- equal opportunities in higher education

119
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What is ERA

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  • equal rights amendment
  • equal pay for women
  • never went through
120
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Roe vs Wade

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  • legalized abortion
  • women’s rights increase
  • safe way to have abortion
121
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What was stonewall inn

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  • gay bar in NY
  • police raided gay bars for publicity
  • raid stonewall inn and they didn’t get arrested peacefully
  • they riot
122
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APA

A
  • American psychotic association

- think gay is a disease

123
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AIDS

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  • originally GRIDS
  • “gay disease”
  • things have changed
124
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What was ford remembered for

A

Pardoning Nixon

125
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Who did ford go against after his first term was over

A

Carter and carter won

126
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Who was jimmy carter

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  • GA governor
  • peanut farmer in rural Georgia
  • an anti-Nixon
  • hard core baptist
127
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Carter playboy interview

A
  • asked if he’s ever cheated on wife

- he said he has in his heart (lusted)

128
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What kind of disasters happened under carter

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  • lots of inflation
  • rise in unemployment
  • Middle East problems (oil crisis)
129
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Who has a peace agreement under carter

A

Egypt and Israel

130
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What happened in Iran in 1979

A
  • Iran over threw leader we installed earlier
  • they raided US embassy
  • took people hostage
  • the US rescue plan failed miserably
  • carter was blamed for all of it
  • installed Muslim leader
131
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Who invades Afghanistan in the early 80’s and what did we do about it

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  • soviet union
  • we couldn’t send troops in
  • so we send in CIA to train Afghan rebels
132
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Who was Ronald Reagan

A
  • Celebrity/ actor
  • unlikely prez
  • asked “are you better off than you were 4 years ago”
  • won him presidency
133
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What kind of government spending did Reagan cut

A
  • student loans
  • welfare
  • pub trans
134
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What else did Reagan do

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  • trickle down theory: didn’t work
  • set back for conservation
  • opposed affirmative action
  • placed Sandra de O’Connor in Supreme Court
  • and also some racial minorities
135
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Who gets credit for ending Cold War

A

Reagan got credit

136
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What does Reagan refer SU as and what was going on there during his presidency

A
  • evil empire
  • communist wasn’t working
  • so they gained few speaking rights
  • leaders kept dying
137
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Did Reagan increase or decrease defense spending

A

Increase

138
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How did SU collapse

A

-revolution under Boris Yeltsin

139
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What two journalist discovered watergate scandal

A

Bernstein and Woodward

140
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Headstart program

A

Allowed children to be equal before kindergarten started

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