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1
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Yalta conference…

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  1. Agreed to divide Germany into 4 zones(French,British,USA,SU)
  2. Stalin promised to give Eastern European countries free elections after the war
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United Nations was established in…

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June 1945

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Postwar goal for SU

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Shield itself from another invasion from the West and spread communism
*wanted to use Eastern Europe as a buffer

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US postwar goals

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To spread democracy in the world

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5
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Potsdam conference-July 1945

It began…

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  1. Stalin said no to free elections in Eastern Europe
  2. Declared communism and capitalism can not exist in the same world
    * the Cold War began
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6
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By 1948 who gave back their zones and who didn’t

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USA, Britain, and France gave back their zones to Germany

Soviet Union did nit(2german states)

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2 German states still occupied

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  1. Federal republic of Germany-west germany

2. German Democratic Republic-east Germany

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A struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military actions or war…struggle between ideas of democracy and communism

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The Cold War

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9
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Blocking and stopping the spread of communism and spreading democracy

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US foreign policy-”containment”

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10
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Gave US aid money and support to any country that resisted and rejected communism

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Truman doctrine

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11
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Assistance(aid) program to rebuild Western Europe
Just had to renounce communism
Named after Secretary of State…

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Marshall plan

George Marshall

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12
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First conflict in the Cold War 1948-1949

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Berlin airlift

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13
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Two rival alliances formed during Cold War

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  1. NATO(North Atlantic Tracy organization)-formed by the USA, Canada, and Eastern Europe
  2. Warsaw Pact-led by Soviet Union and Western Europe
    * some countries remained neutral, like China(communism) and India(democratic)
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14
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During the Cold War there was always the threat of..

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Nuclear war

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15
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…we’re developed which were thousands of times stronger than…

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H-bombs(hydrogen)

A-bonds(atomic)

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16
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Willingness to go to the brink or edge of war

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Brinkmanship

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17
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49 year build up of nuclear weapons

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Arms race

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18
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Space race(sky)

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  1. 1957-soviets created first ICBM(International ballistic Kissel)
  2. 1958-soviets latched first satellites into space(Sputnik)
  3. 2960-USA launched first spy planes(U-2s)
  4. 1969-USA, First to put man on the moon
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19
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Iron curtain

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Berlin Wall-divided east and West Berlin(87 miles long)

*seperated freedom from tyranny-Churchill

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20
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Attempted overthrow of Cuba’s communist government…failed

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Bay of pigs

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21
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Cuban missile crisis-soviet union leader

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Nikita Khrushchev

Missiles all aimed towards the US

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22
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Pilot who was the only casualty in Cuban missile crisis

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Rudolf Anderson

*closest to nuclear war

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23
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Kennedy was assassinated in … by …

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1963

Lee Harvey-lived in the USSR

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24
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Conspiracies on Kennedy’s death

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  1. Russians had him killed

2. White supremacist had him killed

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25
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Conclusion that it was one lone man

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Warren investigation

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26
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Dr. Seuss satire on the Cold War and nuclear race

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The butter battle

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27
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USA

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Yooks

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28
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Soviet Union

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Zooks

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29
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End of the Cold War, 2 events

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  1. Fall of Berlin Wall
  2. Fall of the Soviet Union
    Both in 1991
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30
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Last imperial dynasty

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Quing dynasty

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31
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Prior to ww2, Chinese were in middle of bitter civil war between…
Was put,off to fight common enemy…

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Communist forces vs. democratic nationalist

Japan

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32
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Chinese Nationalist(democratic) forces led by

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Chiang Kia-Sheik

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33
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Chinese communist forces led by

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Mao Zedong

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34
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Formosa is now

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Taiwan

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35
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Communist China took…by force in 1950

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Tibet

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36
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Spiritual and political leader forced into exile

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Dalai Lama

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37
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Attempt to make China go from agricultural to industrial

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The Great Leap Forward

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38
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Great leap forwards goals

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  1. Increase food production

2. Industrialize country

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39
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Collective farms

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Communes

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40
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Why did the Great Leap Forward fail

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Famines, which Kilroy 35-45mill people

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41
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Was to establish a society of peasants and workers all equal was the goal of the

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Cultural revolution

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42
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Purge country of the 4 olds

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Old

  1. Ideas
  2. culture
  3. customs
  4. habits
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43
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All out attack on
Intellectuals=
Industrials=
Western religion=

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Educated
Capitalist
Missionaries/Christians
*persecuted, imprisoned, executed

44
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Former high school and college students who formed military units to enforce the revolution

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Red guards

45
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Forgotten war

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Korean War

*first armed conflict of the Cold War

46
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…was sent to stop the invasion of north on South Korea

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Douglass mcArthur

47
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McArthur asked…to use nuclear bombs

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President Truman

*said no, mcarthur was fired

48
Q

Korean War ended in …

…died

A

1953

4 million

49
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Durning imperialism … controlled all of …

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France 
Indonesia(Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia)
50
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French Indonesia war communist leader who had to flee to exile
Formed the Vietnam independence league

A

Chi Minh

51
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In ww2 … seized and took over Vietnam

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Japan

52
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Goal, to get independence from France

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Vietnam independence league

53
Q

… used …against the French

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Vietminh

Guerrilla warfare

54
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…won the Vietnam War in 1954

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Communist

55
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Feaepred the rest of south Eastern Asia would fall to communism

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The domino theory

56
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Democratic government was led by

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Ngo Dinh Diem

*brutal dictator

57
Q

Communist guerrillas

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Vietcong

58
Q

By … over 1/2 a million … were fighting the the Vietnam War

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1968

US

59
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US army faced 2 major problems in the V war

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  1. Fighting guerrilla warfare in unfamiliar territory

2. South Vietnamese government was unpopular

60
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U.S tactics to win war=…
Problem=…
Why?

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Search and destroy
Couldn’t find enemy
Underground tunnels

61
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Air power(bombing)
Creation of more peasant opposition
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Operation rolling thunder

62
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Youth drivens, “counter culture”

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Hippies-flower children

63
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Fled rot Canada

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Draft dodgers

64
Q

Anti war

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Doves

65
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Pro war

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Hawks

66
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…pressured into a new plan called …

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President Nixon

Vietnamization

67
Q

Gradual pull out of US troops replaced by South Vietnamese troops

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Vietnamization

68
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…pulled out all us troops

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Paris accords

69
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Results of Vietnam war

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  • 58,000 troops died
  • 2 million Vietnamese dead
  • only war in US history,lost
70
Q

A hundred Tera struggle for Africa in Americans

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Civil rights movement

71
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Goals of the civil rights moment

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  1. Freedom from discrimination
  2. Equal opportunity in employment, education and so forth
  3. The right to vote
72
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“No rights which a white man was bound to respect”, Supreme Court started during

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Dread Scott case

73
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Abolished slavery

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13th amendment

74
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Granted citizenship to blacks

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14th amendment

75
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Gave blacks the right to vote

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15th amendment

76
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Kept blacks bro, voting through pull taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation by the

A

Kkk(Ku Klux Klan)

77
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Segregation laws

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Jim Crow laws

78
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Established, separate but equal

,are segregation legal

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Plessey vs. Ferguson

79
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Believed in gradual equality for blacks through education

$founded Tuskegee institute

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Booker T. Washington

80
Q

Immediate equality. Helped establish the NAACP

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Web De Bois

81
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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of colored People

82
Q

“Back to Africa” moment

Be proud of your race!

A

Marcus Garvey

83
Q

“New negro movement”
Stressed art, poetry, theater, and music
*promoted black pride

A

Harlem Renaissance

84
Q

Started the national Nehru Congress

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Phillip Randolph

85
Q

Integrated the military

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President Harry S Truman

86
Q

Went to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice

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Turgood marshall

87
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Integration became the law after this Supreme Court ruling

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Brown vs. board of education

88
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First 9 black students ti interprets into high school

Was protected by the …

A

Little Rock 9(Arkansas)

National guard

89
Q

Refused to sit in the back of the bus

*first challenge to him crow laws

A

Rosa parks

90
Q

First black student to be interpreted into elegy school

A

Ruby Bridges

91
Q

Main leader of the civil rights movement(non violent)

Based his way off of … movement in …

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Martian Luther king Jr

Mohandas Gandhi’s, India

92
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Students who staged protests in the form of sit ins, freedom rides, and marches
*many were jailed, beaten, and killed

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SNCC(student Nonviolent coordinating Committee)

93
Q

Fought segregation on public transportation

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Freedom rides

94
Q

Watershed event of the movement

*turning point

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Martian Luther kings I have a dream speech

95
Q

Endorsed her civil rights legislation-assassinated before it was passed

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President John F Kennedy

96
Q

Gets civil rights act of 1964 passed

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President Lyndon Johnson

*outlaw of discrimination and discrimination based on race

97
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Attempt to get African Americans to register and vote

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Freedom summer

98
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Peaceful march, attacked by police in Selma, Alabama

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Bloody Sunday

99
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Bloody Sunday results

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Voting rights act of 1965 was passed

*outlawed poll taxes and literary tests

100
Q

Leader is the Nation of Islam
Critic if the nonviolent movement
Preached bloodshed/revolution was necessary to gain equality

A

Malcom X(Malcom Little)

101
Q

Malcom X was assassinated by

A

Nation of Islam

102
Q

Black power
Leader=
Promoted…

A

Black panther movement
Stockley Carmichael
Violence

103
Q

Martin Luther King was assassinated in … in … by …

A

1968
Memphis, TN
James Earl Jones

104
Q

Result of Martin lither kings death and the philosophies of Malcom x and Stockholm Carmichael was

A

Worst race riots in American history

Many US cities burned…LA, Detroit, NYC, etc

105
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Why is the civil rights movement important

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  1. It established the idea of discrimination is not just and would no longer be tolerated
  2. Brought us closer to the principles our nation was founded on…”all men are created equal”

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