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The characteristics of fascist governments include each of the following except

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A government owned economy

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Which one of the following was not a provision of the neutrality acts of the 1930s?

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Complete trade embargo with all belligerent

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Which one of the following was not a pricniple expressed in the Atlantic Charter?

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complete disarmament

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The Joint Declaration issued by the Allies included each of the following expect:

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A plan to create an international peaekeeping organization after the way

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The functions of the War Production Board included all of the following except

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regulating wages and prices

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The provisions of the Yalta Agreement included each of the following except

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The Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against Japan following the defeat of Germany

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Douglas McArthur introduced each of the following democratic reforms to Japan after the war except:

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Freedom of speech

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T/F: During the war, women held jobs that had not been open to them before, but women in the armed forces were assigned traditional women’s duties exclusively.

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False

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Giving in to the demands of a bully, such as Hitler, in the vain hope that the will be satisfied and that war will be avoided is ______________.

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Appeasement

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The American policy of selling non-military goods to belligerents, with the understanding that they would pay in advance and would pick up the goods with their own ships

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Cash-and-carry

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The American practice of loaning wa supplies to the British in exchange for the right to use their naval and air bases in the Caribbean

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Lend-Lease

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The German war tactic that combined rapid troop movement with close coordination between land and air forces

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Blitzkrieg

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Limiting the amount of certain products that consumers could purchase in any given month

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Rationing

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The strategy of attacking certain Japanese-held islands while bypassing others of lesser importance

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Island Hopping

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Japanese suicide pilots who attempted to sink American ships by deliberately crashing their airplanes into them

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Kamikaze

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The British Prime minister who led his people safely through WWII

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Winston S. Churchill

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Leader of the Committee to Defend America by helping the Allies

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William Allen White

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Leader of the daring attack on Tokyo and other Japanese cities in April 1942

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James Doolittle

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Pilot and author of “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”

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Ted Lawson

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Builder of prefabricated “Liberty” ships

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Henry Kaiser

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Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Supreme Allied Commander in the South Pacific

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Douglas MacArthur

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Commander of the U.S Navys Pacific fleet

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Chester W. Nimitz

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U.S. Navy pilot shot down and rescued by a U.S. submarine

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George H Bush

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Physicist who led the top secret U.S. program to develop the atomic bomb

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J Robert Oppenheimer

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The goals of the marshall plan

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A,B,C,D

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The provisions of the Geneva Peace Accords of 1954 included each of the following except

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A date was set for an international conference to negotiate the reunification of Vietnam

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The actions taken by Johnson in escalating the war in Vietnam included each of the following except:

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Bombing of North and South Vietnam

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The provisions of Nixons strategy for ending the US combat role in Vietnam included each of the following except

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Covert ground operations in Cambodia and Laos

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T/F: The outcome of the North Vietnamese Tet offensive of 1968 was a serious military defeat for the US

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False

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The policy adopted by Harry S Truman of resisting he expansion of communism anywhere in the world

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Containment

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President Eisenhowers proposal that the US and the Soviet Union conduct reconnaissance flights over each other’s territory

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Open Skies

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The Worlds first artificial satellire, launched by the USSR in 1957

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Sputnik

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Kennedys tactic of refusing to permit the USSR to install nuclear weapons in Cuba by intercepting ships transporting them

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Quarantine

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The belief that if South Vietnam fell to communists, the rest of Southeast Asia would follow

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Domino Effect

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The American tactic of locating the enemy, calling in air strikes, and sending in ground forces to mop-up any remaining enemy soldiers

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Search and destroy

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The chemical defoliant that was dropped on Vietnamese rain forests in order to strip the land of all vegetation

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Agent Orange

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The knowledge, shared by the US and the Soviet Union was an attack by either against the other would result in the devastation of both

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Mutally assured destruction

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People who flee a country because of a well-founded fear of persecution and seek safety in another

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Refugees

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American State department official who sugested the Soviet expansion be resisted

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George Kennan

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Secretary of State who planned to rebuild Europe’s war-shattered economy

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George Marshall

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Commander of UN forces in Korea

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Douglas MacArthur

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Wisconsin Senator who sought to uncover communists in the US government

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Joseph McCarthy

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American U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960

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Francis Gary Powers

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Commander of US forces in North Vietnam

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William Westmoreland

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Richard Nixons national Security Advisor who later became Secretary of State

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Henry Kissinger

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Sculptor who designed the Vietnam Memorial in DC

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Maya Lin

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The methods used by southern states to prevent their black citizens voting included each of the following except

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Property requirements

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Which one of the following was not a goal of the government’s termination policy?

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To encourage Indians to move to cities and assimilate into the white community

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Which of the following was not a provision of the Civil rights act of 1964?

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a ban on discrimination based on sex

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The system of complete separation of the races that was adopted throughout the south

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Jim Crow

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Racially motivated murder

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lynching

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The belief that black Americans should accept society as it was, learn a trade, get a good job, support their families, and leave civil rights for the future

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Accomodationism

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the movement of large number of European americans to the suburbs, in order to avoid to avoid living near member of minority groups

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white flight

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Agrreements among neighbors designed to prevent racial or religious minorities from buying homes in certain neighborhoods

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restrictive covenants

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Civil rights demonstrations in which people would politely request to be served in restaurants or diners and would not resist if they were attacked

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sit-ins

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The brave people who undertook interracial bus trips across the south, protesting the segregation of interstate transportation

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Freedom Riders

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The summer of 1964, when northern volunteers went to Mississippi to assist black southerners in their attempts to register to vote

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Freedom Summer

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The civil rights law which states that women must receive equal opportunities in interscholastic and intercollegiate sports

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Title IX

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The effort to improve educational and employment opportunities for women and minorities, without the use of a quota system

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Affirmative Action

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the only supreme court justice to dissent from the “separate, but equal” decision

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John Marshall Harlan

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Newspaper publisher who campaigned to make racially-motivated murder a federal crime

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Ida B. Wells

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Educator who believed that black men should learn a trade, support their families, and not to worry about civil rights

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Booker T. Washington

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Co-founder of the NAACP and editor of its magazine, the crisis

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W.E.B. DuBois

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First African-American to play major league baseball in the 20th century

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Jackie Robinson

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Black youth murdered by racists for being “disrespectful” to a white woman

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Emmet Till

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Person arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus when ordered to relinquish a seat to a white passenger

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Rosa Parks

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leader of the Alabama bus boycott

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Martin Luther King, Jr

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black student who enrolled at the all-white University of Mississippi

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James Meredith

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three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964 for trying to assist black Americans in registering to vote

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James Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner

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Chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam who was later murdered by members of that group

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Malcom X

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Leader of STOP-ERA

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Phyllis Schlafly

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Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy initiatives included each of the following except

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Obtaining the release of our hostages in Iran

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George H Bush’s foreign policy initiatives included each of the following except:

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permanent suspension of arms shipments to the People’s Republic of China

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Bill Clinton’s foreign policy initiatives included each of the following except

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seeking the capture of Osama Bin Laden

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Clintons domestic policy successes included each of the following except

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a major overhaul of the national health care

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Which of the following was not a provision of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation act?

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It created a system of block grants that the states could use to design their own back to work programs

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T/F: The event that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union was the tearing down of the Berlin wall.

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False

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Ronald reagans theory that sizeable tax cuts wll stimulate the economy by putting more cash in the hands of the consumers is known as

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Supply-side economics

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The conservative agenda proposed by the Republican Party during the 1994 midterm elections

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Contract with America

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The attempt by Serbian forces to rid Bosnia and Herzegovina of its Muslim population, either by killing them or driving them away

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ethnic cleansing

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To lie under oath in a court of law

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perjury

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A network that allows all computers linked to the Internet to communicate and exchange information

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Worldwide Web

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First female Supreme Court Justice

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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Chief Justice of the US (1986-2005)

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William Rehnquist

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Commander of the US- led invasion of Iraq

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Norman Svhwarzkopf

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Creator of the largest chain of discount stores in the US

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Sam Walton

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Creator of the PC

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Steve Jobs

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The servicemen’s readjustment act included each of the following benefits excpept

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Cash Bonuses

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The gains made by workers during the 1950s included each of the following excpet

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The number of strikes declined dramatically as job satisfaction increased

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The reasons for the relocation of many northern industries to the south included

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  1. the south reduced labor costs

2. favorable tax laws

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The cause of juvenile delinquency, according to Freserick Wertham, was

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comic books

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The criticisms of rock n roll during the 1950s included each of the following except

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it was played too loudly

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The components of Johnsons War on Pverty included

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A, B, C, D, E

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The dramatic increase in the birth rate that followed WWII and continued for 18 years

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Baby boom

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The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act was commonly known as

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GI Bill

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A derogatory name applied to television during the 1950s

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Boob tube

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Eisenhower, in hid farewell message, cautioned the American people that a potential problem for the US was the _________________, a powerful alliance between business and the armed forces.

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Military- industrial complex

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Nixons proposal to return a portion of federal tax dollars to state and local governments in the form of grants to be used as they saw fit

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Revenue Sharing

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Nixons proposal to replace most federal welfare programs with a guaranteed annual income for all families

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Family-assistance plan

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The strange, unprecedented combination of high unemployment and high inflation that afflicted the US in the 1970s

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stagflation

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Creator of post- WWII suburbs

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William Levitt

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Publisher of National Review and founder of the modern conservative movement

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William F. Buckley, JR.

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Republican presidential candidate (64)

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Barry Goldwater

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President of Egypt and Prime Minister and of Israel who negotiated a peace treaty

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Anwar Sadat

Menachem Begin

106
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George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense

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Donald Rumsfeld

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George W. Bush’s National Security of State Advisor who then became his secretary of State

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Condoleezza Rice

108
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The Term used to refer collectively to biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons is _______________

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Weapons of Mass Destruction

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Extracting oil and natural gas trapped in layers in shale by pumping fluids under pressure into, and cracking, the rock is _____________

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hydraulic fraction

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