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What did Stalin and Churchill want to control?

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Areas of strategic interest to them

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2
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What did Stalin open in Europe?

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A second front

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What was the issue with Poland?

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No one could decide how much of it should remain independent

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What was the meeting at Yalta?

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With Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin

Russia got part of its territory back

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What did the Atlantic charter do?

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Use democratic processes to work out problems

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What was the Tehan conference?

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Roosevelt and Churchill went to Iran to speak with Stalin.
Stalin agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war in the pacific soon after the end of the hostilities in Europe.
Roosevelt promised that the Anglo American second front would be established in six months

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Where was the second peace conference?

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Yalta

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What did Roosevelt agree that the SU should get and why?

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They should get some of the pacific territory that Russia lost to the Japanese because they were helping with the pacific war

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9
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What were the parts of the United Nations?

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A general assembly in which every member was represented
A security councils its permanent representatives of the five major powers (the U.S., Britain, France, and the Soviet Union) and each had veto power

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10
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What two places could not be agreed upon?

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Germany and Poland

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What were the two views on what should happen to Germany?

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Roosevelt said they should reconstruct and reunite Germany

Stalin said they should dismember the nation permanently.

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Who controlled zones of occupation in Germany?

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The U.S., Britain, France, and Russia

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How did Roosevelt die?

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A stroke

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Who became president after Roosevelt died?

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Harry s Truman

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How much did Truman say the U.S. Should go get?

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85% of what it wanted

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16
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Who met at Potsdam?

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Stalin, Churchill, and Truman

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17
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Who replaced Churchill after the elections?

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Clement Attlee

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What were the 2 sides of Germany?

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Western - United into one nation, friendly to the U.S.

Eastern - the Russian zone with a pro-soviet, communist government

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What two Chinese leaders fought eachother?

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Chaing Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong (communist)

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Who did Truman support in the Chinese arguments?

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Chasing

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21
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Who’s idea was containment originally?

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George f Kennan

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22
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Who was containment used on?

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Soviet Union

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23
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How much money did Truman request to help Greece and turkey?

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$400 million

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24
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What was the john birch society?

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An anti communist group

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25
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Who lead the JBS?

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Robert welch

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26
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What was wrong with the JBS?

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They were totally paranoid

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27
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Who’s idea was rollback?

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John Foster Dulles

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28
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How many Western European nations accepted the Marshall plan and which nations did not?

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16

Russia and its eastern satellites

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29
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Which agency administered the Marshall plan?

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The economic cooperation administration

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30
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How much did European industrial production rise because of the Marshall plan?

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64%

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31
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What was the atomic energy commission?

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It became in charge of overseeing all nuclear research

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32
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What oversaw all branches of the armed service?

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The department of defense

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33
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What governed foreign and military policy?

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The national security council

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34
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What replaced the office of strategic strategies?

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The Central Intelligence Agency

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35
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What did the national security act do?

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It gave the president expanded powers to pursue international goals

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36
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What was Stalin demanding needed to happen if Germany was going to be officially divided?

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All the parts of Berlin must be given to the eastern sector

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37
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How long did the U.S. Airlift to Berlin continue?

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10 months

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38
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What was the name of the western side and its capital?

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The federal republic

Bonn

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What was the name of the eastern republic?

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The democratic republic in the east

East Berlin

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40
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What was the North Atlantic treaty organization?

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Twelve nations signed an agreement saying that if one of them was atta kid they were all attacked

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41
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What alliance did the Soviet Union make?

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The Warsaw Pact

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42
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What two things really startled Americans?

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The Russian atomic bomb

The collapse of chasing Kai-Shek’s government

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43
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After China fell to communism, what did some Americans make to support them?

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China Lobby

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44
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What did people think the end of the war would bring to American?

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Depression

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45
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What did the Ned of the war bring to American?

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Growth

46
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What was the servicemen’s readjustment act do?

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The GI Bill of rights provided housing education and job training to vets

47
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Who ,was the united mine workers on strike?

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John l Lewis

48
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What did Truman do to get the railroad workers to work again?

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He threatened to make the army work the trains

49
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What was the republican’s slogan to win both houses of congress?

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“Had Enough?”

50
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What wa the first thing the republican congress did?

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Chip away at new deal reforms

51
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What act damaged unions?

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The Taft Hadley act

52
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What were problems that Truman faced with his new campaign?

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He was unpopular

Divisions in the Democratic Party

53
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What party did the southern conservatives form and who was the leader?

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The Dixiecrat
States’ rights party
Governor strom Thurmond of SC

54
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What did the left wingers make?

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The new progressive party

Henry a Wallace

55
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Who did the democrats try to get to run?

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Dwight d Eisenhower

Truman wS their second choice

56
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What did the case Shelly v Kramer decide?

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Courts could not be used to enforce private convenants meant to bar blacks from residential neighborhoods.

57
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Film noir

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Originated in France

Known for its dark lighting

58
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What did most people believe about the nuclear bombs?

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It would do more harm than good

59
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Who fought the Korean War?

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Both the United States and Russia had troops in Korea fighting the Japanese

60
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Where was Korea divided?

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Along the 38th parallel

61
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What happened when the Russians left the north?

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They left behind a communist government

62
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Who did the Americans turn their power over to n korea?

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Shngman Rhee

63
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Who was the main American General in the Korean War?

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Douglas MacArthur

64
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What did MacArthur suggest?

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They should directly attack the Chinese

65
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Who did MacArthur write a letter to?

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House republican leader Joseph w Martin

66
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Which republican group tried to prove that under democratic rule the government tolerated communism?

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The house unamerican activities committee

67
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Who was klaus Fuchs?

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A young British scientist sho gave atomic bomb tips to Russians

68
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Who wS the main person who investigated communists?

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McCarthy

69
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Who led the afl cio

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George meany

70
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What happened to the labor unions?

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The became tainted with violence

71
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Pasteur and Joubert

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Development of antibiotics

72
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Fleming

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Penicillin

73
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Edward Jenner

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Smallpox vaccine

74
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Wright

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Developed the typhoid vaccination

75
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Jonas Salk

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Developed the cure for polio (vaccine)

76
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Albert Sabin

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Developed the oral vaccine for polio

77
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Paul muller

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Made the pesticide for ddt

78
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What was bell labs?

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The research arm of AT&T

79
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What did integrated circuits do?

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Helped advance the development of the computer

80
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What’s the first significant computer?

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The universal automatic computer

The UNIVAC

81
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Who made the first computer?

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The Remington rand company

82
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Who publicized the first computer?

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The international business machines company

83
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What were the first American ICBM’s?

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Atlas and Titan

84
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Miss,es thst could travel several states thousand miles

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Minuteman

85
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The Polaris

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Nuclear miss,w capable of being carried and fired by submarines

86
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What were soviet astronauts?

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Cosmonauts

87
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Which shuttle exploded?

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The challenger

88
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David potter

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Wrote people of plenty

89
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What was everyone entranced with?

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The hula hoop

90
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Who was the most famous suburban developer?

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William levitt

91
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Bernard devoto

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Shall we let them ruin our national parks?

92
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David brower

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Leader of the Sierra club

93
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William h whyte jr

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Produced the organization man which described the mentality of s worker in a large burcreatic setting

94
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What were the restless teens called?

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The beats or beatniks

95
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Who was an icon of the beats?

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James dean

96
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What show did dick Clark host?

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American bandstand

97
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Payola

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Secret payments from producers to DJs to get their music played sooner

98
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Michael Harrington

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The other America

99
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Who was the least experienced politician to serve in the presidency?

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Eisenhower

100
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How did McCarthy die?

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After he had been removed from his position, he died of alcoholism

101
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Who was eisenhower’s SOS?

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John foster Dulles

102
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Massive retaliation

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Dukes idea of using nuclear weapons in situations of co,,units threats

103
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Brinkmanship

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Pushing the soviets to the brink

104
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Who was trying to get power over Vietnam?

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Ho Chi Minh and the French also

105
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Who would Roosevelt not support Minh?

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He was a communist

106
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Where were treated for Korea and Vietnam both settled?

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Geneva

107
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Who was the nationalist prime minister of Iran?

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Mohammed mossadegh

108
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Who was ether leader of Egypt?

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General gamal abdel Nasser

109
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Who overthrew the Cuban government and started his own?

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Fidel Castro

110
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Who did Castro make and alliance with?

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The Soviet Union

111
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What caused Eisenhower and kruschev’s meeting to be cancelled?

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There was a bombing of an American plane in Russian territory

112
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Who was the pilot of the plane?

A

Francis Gary Powers

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