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Populism

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Farmers seeking reforms

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Musckrakers

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Journalists exposed govt.

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Upton Sinclair

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The Jungle; exposed meat packing industry; Meat Inspection Act

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Ida Tarbell

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Exposed Rockefeller

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Socialism

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Women rights

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Eugene V. Debs

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ARU (American Railway Union

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McKinley

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Assassinated by anarchist

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Square deal; National Park Conservation; Big Stick Diplomacy; mediated coal strike; trust regulator

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Taft

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Trust buster; not really liked; Dollar Diplomacy; split republic; sided with Cannon

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Joseph Cannon

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Conservative

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Election of 1912

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Roosevelt (vamoos)! Taft (republican) vs. Wilson (democrat). Wilson won.

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16th amendment

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Income tax

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17th amendment

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Direct election of senate

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18th amendment

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Prohibition

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19th amendment

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Women’s suffrage

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Triple entente

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Britain, France, Russia

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Allies:

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Italy, _____ , _____

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Central powers

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Germany, Italy, Japan

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Stalemate

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Dead block; not moving anywhere

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Reparation

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War payments made by defeated nation

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Trench warfare

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WWI

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Schliffen Plan

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Dead eating two fronts (France and Russia)

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Selective Service Act

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Hoover; WWI;

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Herbert Hoover

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Food administration

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League of Nations

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Never joined by U.S.

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Treaty of Versailles

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Ended WWI; signed by big four- France, Brit, U.S., Italy

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Big four

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France, Italy, U.S., Italy

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Ho Chi Minh

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Leader of french colony

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Underwood Tariff

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Longest tariff

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Ku Klux Klan

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Racist group; everyone escort whites who are protestant

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Bloc

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Voting together

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Charged with murder; Italian immigrants

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Washington Naval Conference

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Reduce evil arts

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Warren G. Harding

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Pres. of 1920s; many scandals (ten pot dome)

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Andrew Mellon

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Sec. of Treasury for Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover

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Charles Evans Hughes

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Sec. Of State

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Albert B. Fall

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Sec. of interior (indicted in teapot scandal)

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A. Mitchell Palmer

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Palmer raid; arrested

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Herbert Hoover

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Great Repression blame

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God Neighbor Policy

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Foreign Policy; Hoover (FDR get credit)

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Red Scare

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Fear of communism

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42
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Uneven distribution of income causes

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Easy credit

Buying on margin

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Bonus army

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WWI veterans

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Rugged individualism

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Hoover’s philosophy; pick yourself up

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45
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Hoover

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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4 terms; democrat; preserved New Deal to

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47
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Brain trust

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Smart people in office

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48
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Civilian Conservation Corps

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CCC; young men

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National Industry Recovery Act

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Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court

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Social Security Act

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Elderly

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51
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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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Unconstitutional pay farmers to not do so much

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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Electricity for rural communities

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Court Packing Bill

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Of you’re old, add additional judge or replace them

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Huey Long

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Governor of Louisiana; assassinated

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Charles Coughlin

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Catholic priest; had radio show

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56
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Sudetenland

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In chekoslovokia

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57
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Nuremberg Trials

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Stripped Jews of rights

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Manchuria

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Japan attacked (for resources)

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Axis Powers

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Italy, Germany, Japan

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60
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Neville Chamberlin

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British Prime Minister before 1940

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61
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Appeasement

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Avoid war

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Winston Churchill

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Prime minster after 1940

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Francisco Franco

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Spanish fascist dictator

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Josef Stalin

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Former Premier of Soviet Union

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Benito Missolini

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Italian; leader of National Fascist Party

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Facism

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Totalitarian state; dictators

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Sitzkrieg

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Phony war; winter illusion

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Blitzkrieg

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“Lightning war”

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Erwin Rommel

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Desert Fox; German General

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Big Three

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Stalin, Churchill, FDR

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Atlantic Charter

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After Woodrow Wilson; self-determination

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Office of Price Administration

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WWII; control consumer prices to avoid inflation

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Manhattan Project

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Issei

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1st generation

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Nissei

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2nd generation

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Kamikazes

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Suicidal pilots

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Hirohito

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Emperor of Japan;

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur

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Pacific theater; island hopping

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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

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D-Day (June 6, 1944)

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Nagasaki

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2nd city bombed; japanese surrendered here

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Truman

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Authorized bombing

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V-E Day

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Victory

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V-J Day

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Victory in Japan

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D-Day

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WWII; allied forces invaded northern France through Normandy

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Cold War

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Not real war; constant fighting

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GI Bill

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Five assistance to veterans

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1948 presidential election

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Truman won (against Dewey)

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NATO

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U.S. and F___

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Warsaw Pact

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USSR

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Truman Doctrine

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Fight communism

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Marshall Plan

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European recovery program

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Korean War

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North attacked first!

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Joseph McCarthy

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Everyone’s a communist

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Douglas MacArthur

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Fired because criticized Truman’s war policy

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Satellite Nations

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USSR watching

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Dynamic Conservatism

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Eisenhower

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Mao Zedong

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Communist China

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John Foster Dulles

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Sec. of State under Eisenhower

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Massive Retaliation

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Nuclear weapons; brinkmanship

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Gama Abdel Nasser

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Egyptian leader; Suez Canal Crisis

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Eisenhower Doctrine

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Fight communism in Middle East

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Eggheads

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Out of touch with common people, but are book smart

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Levittown

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Massive suburban housing

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Beatniks

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Pre-hippies

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Reserved Plessy v. Ferguson

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Malcolm X

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Back power

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Governor Ross Barnett and George Wallace

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Symbols of racism; blocked entrance of schools

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March on Washington

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Passage of south

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JFK

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New Frontier; space programs; economic aid to Latin American countries

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Bay of Pigs

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Sent cuban exiles; failed

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Fidel Castro

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Cuban dictator

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Berlin Wall

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Separated east and west; U.S. for west.

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Alger Hiss

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Accused of being spy

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Great Society

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LBJ; war on poverty and social rights

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Assassinated JFK

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Lyndon Johnson

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Veteran; Great Society; Civil Rights Act

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Voting Rights Act 1965

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No poll tax

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Dien Bien Phu

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North Vietnamese took over

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Geneva Accords

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North and South Vietnam

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Hi Chi Minh

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Leader of North Vietnam

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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Leader of South Vietnam

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17th parrallel

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Divided Vietnam

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Domino Theory

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One country becomes Communist, it will spread

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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LBJ decided to send more forces; U.S. needed excuse to go to war

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Search and Destroy Missions

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Tactic. Search and destroy Viet Congs

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Viet Congs

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Vietnamese who aided ?????

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Delayed Stress Syndrome

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PTSD

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Nixon Policy

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Vietnamization

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1968

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Everything bad; King assassinated; Bobby Kennedy assassinated; U.S. televised being terrible.

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Richard Nixon

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Republican

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Deficit Spending

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Spending more than getting

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Realpolitik

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Dr. Henry Kissinger

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SALT

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U.S. And USSR signed it

134
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Pentagon Papers

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Important, private info about war; Nixon paranoid

135
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Spiro Agnew

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VP to Nixon; got caught for extortion & bribery; appointed Ford

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George Wallace

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Wanted to become president, but shot

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Ford

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Pardoned Nixon; people angry

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Stagflation

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Stagnant economy; WHIP

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ERA

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Equal Rights Amendment for men and women

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Carter

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President

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Panama Canal

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Given back to Egypt

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OPEC

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Trade embargo

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Camp David Accords

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Greatest accomplishment; Ford; Peace between Egypt and Israel

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Ronald Reagan

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Moral majority

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George Bush

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Up to Reagan

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Reagonomics

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Giving tax advance to wealthy

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Moral Majority

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Christian group

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Geraldine Ferraro

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First to email to run to become president

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AIDS

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Big issue; Gays suffered

150
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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Soviet Premier; glasnost

151
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Sandra Day O’ Connor

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First female Supreme Court Justice

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INF

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Immediate Nuclear Force

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Progressive movement

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Reform progress; Woodrow Wilson: Teddy; Taft

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