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a form of government in which power is vested in the hands of a small business elite

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ogligarchy

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the ___ was a law that outlawed the close shop, outlawed secondary boycotts, required union officials to sign loyalty oaths, and permitted the president to call a cooling off period to delay any strike that might endanger us safety or health

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Taft Harley Act

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The _____ was the overall name given to President Truman’s domestic policy

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Fair Deal

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the federal law that required organizations deemed communist by the attorney general to register with the Department of Justice

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McCarran Internal Security Act

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Truman was able to stage an upset victory in 1948 president election because

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he recruited the old new deal coalition and won most of the black vote

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in _________ (1954) the US Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment

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Brown v Board of Education

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The ________ (July 1958) was a US foreign policy statement in which us pledged military and economic aid to any nation in the middle east threatened by insurrection from within or invasion from without

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Eisenhower Doctrine

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by 1960, one-half of one percent of us companies accounted for more than ____ % of total corporate income in the us

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50

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Rachel Carson’s ______ (1962) warned of the dangers of ddt and other pesticides, leading to state and federal bans and the emergence of an environmental movement in the us

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silent spring

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10
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the unionized labor force in the us dropped from 36% in 1963 to ________ by the 1950s

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31

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the ______ refers to huge population growth between ca 1946 and 1965 spurring by an increase in the fertility rate

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baby BOOM

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By the end of the 1950s, women compromised ____% of the us labor force

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33

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this 1955 - 1956 event protested segregation on public transport in a southern city

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Montgomery bus boycott

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in the 1950s which was the poorest minority group n the us

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native Americans

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by 1960 _____% of university scientists engineers worked full time on govt research, most of which was militarily related

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33

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__________ was the name given to what was essentially rhythm and blues but performed by white musicians and singers

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rock n roll

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which of the following was NOT PART of the holy trinity of the 1960s civil rights legislation

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civil rights act of 1960

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which of the following marked sncc disillusionment with the democratic party and with liberals in general?

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the failure of the democratic party leaders to seat the delegation from the Mississippi freedom democratic party at the 1964 convention

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the dissatisfaction noted above at #18 led to the rise of the ______ movement which abandoned earlier civil rights leaders commitment to integration and nonviolence

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black panthers

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the late 1960s saw a wave of inner-city riots, beginning with _______

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Newark

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__________ was a leading preacher in the nation of islam, initially preaching separation and violent resistance to white racism, his pilgrimage to Mecca caused him to change his mind believing that inner racial cooperation was possible. Assassinated Feb 1965

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Malcolm X

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The resurgence of women’s rights activism after world war II was marked by the 1963 publication of betty Friedman’s book

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the feminine mystiqUE

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Antiwar Protests began in 1965 with

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teach-ins at Univerity of Michigan

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In June 1962, the students for a democratic society published the ______ which called for more genuine human relations and participatory democracy

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Port Huron Statement

25
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Which of the following brands was not part of the first British invasion

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AC/DC

26
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This form of birth control revolutionized american sexual behavior, beginning in the early 1960s

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birth control pill

27
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in the landmark case __________ the us supreme court struck down laws criminalizing

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Roe v Wade

28
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Which of the following does not describe the impact of the sexual

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birthrate increased

29
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the ______ was the seminal event in the modern gay rights movement

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Stonewall riot

30
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which of the following was not among the costs of the Vietnam war in Vietnam

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75,000 KIA

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President Nixon was eventually brought down by his direction of a burglary at the democratic national committee headquarters and subsequent cover-up attempt. This was known as the ______ scandal

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watergate

32
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which of the following shattered the liberal consensus in the 1970s

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vietnam war

33
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this late 1970s event highlighted the dangers of nuclear war

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three mile island

34
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in the landmark case ______ (1973) the US Supreme court struck down a texas law banning abortions

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Roe V Wade

35
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the late 1970s saw the emergence of a frightening new sexually transmitted disease : _____________; by 1990 over 31,000 americans had died of this disease

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AIDS

36
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the 1970s was marked by the rapid growth of which religious denomination

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evangelical protestants

37
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by the 1970s ca _____% of America’s black population lived in inner-city slums

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33

38
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Most of the immigrants to the us in the 1970s came from what two areas?

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Asia; latin america

39
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This 1980 crisis illustrated the disastrous consequences of industrial pollution

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love canal

40
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which of the following was not among the results of the soviet invasion of afghanistan

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the era of dente was over

41
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which part of President Reagan’s economic strategy had succeeded by 1983

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inflation

42
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this scandal plagued president REagan’s second term. The CIA and NSA sold weapons to Iran and funneled the proceeds to rebels in Nicaragua, in violation of the law mentioned above, at question 30

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Iran- Contra Scandal

43
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This event was the symbolic end of the cold war

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opening of the berlin wall

44
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this event was the official end of the cold was

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dissolution of the soviet union

45
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in this “One Hundred Hour War” UN forces, mostly contributed by the us and Britain, evicted the Iraqi army from Kuwait and destroyed most Iraqi forces in southern Iraq

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Operation DeSert Storm

46
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President Clinton initiated a new policy towards gays and lesbians in the military, called

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don’t ask don’t tell

47
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in 1992, congress ratified the _______, which established a free trade zone among Canada, the U.S. and Mexico

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North American Free Trade Agreement

48
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which statement correctly describes changed in the US life expectancy

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increased from 74 years to 77 years

49
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according to demographers by ______ no single racial or ethnic group will be in the majority in the US

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2050

50
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the fastest growing part of the US economy since ca. 1970 has been the _____ sector

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service

51
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Genocide in this African nation killed 500,000 people and made hundreds of thousands more become refugees. It represents the greatest failure of peacekeeping in the post-Cold War era

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Rwanda

52
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The Oslo Agreements fell through when terrorist attacks launches on Israel from Palestenian territory resulted in Isreali President Netanyahu’s decision to build more housing in Palestinian territory

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tru

53
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in this treaty, the us and the russian federation agreed to cut their long range nuclear arsenals in half

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strategic arms reduction treaty

54
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by 2000 only about _____% of US workers belonged to unions, weakening their collective bargaining and lobbying efforts

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13

55
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which of the following groups were not opposed to globalizationat the turn of the twenty first century?

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multinational bankers

56
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refers to the terrorist attacks made on the same day in. 2001 against the word trade center

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9/11

57
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in response to the attacks noted above, the US invaded _______ whose government had allowed the terrorist network to train in their nation.

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Afghsnistan

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