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1
Q

After wwii Korea was divided at the ____ parallel, communist ______ Korea and non communist _______ Korea are still divided today

A

38th
North
South

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2
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President Eisenhower’s policy in which the US would go to the brink of war before baking down

A

Brinkmanship

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3
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US was the First Nation to land on the ________ in 1969

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Moon

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4
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President Johnson’s domestic reform plan

A

Great society

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5
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Many dust bowl victims moved to

A

California

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6
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FDR discussed new deal, most Americans received their news from radio

A

Fireside chats

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7
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Regional development in a severely depressed area, built and renovated 25 dams

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TVA

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8
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The US tried to remain ________ from european conflicts despite the rise of militarists, and dictators in Japan/general _____ , Germany/general ______, Italy/general ______

A

Isolated
Tojo
Hitler
Mussolini

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9
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Meeting between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt where they discussed peace goals for the post war world

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Atlantic Charter

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10
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Confined to internment camps for no crime, Americans were denied due process of law

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Japanese American internment

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11
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Sea battle in the pacific, between the US and Japan, was the turning point in the war, heavy Japanese loses allowed the Allies to begin to retake pacific islands

A

Battle of Midway

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12
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US strategy of moving form island to island

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Island hopping

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13
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Decorated African American pilots who flew in Europe

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Tuskegee Airmen

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14
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First dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, development of the _________changed the world the most after WWII

A

Atomic bomb

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15
Q

Laws aimed at separating the races

A

Jim Crow laws

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16
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1896 Supreme Court tule that segregation was legal as long as it was “separate but equal”

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Please v Ferguson

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17
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Main purpose was to fight segregation and discrimination through the legal system

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NAACP

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18
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1954 Supreme Court overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine relating to education.

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Brown v board

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19
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NAACP lawyer and the first African American Supreme Court Justice who supported civil rights through the legal system

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Thurgood Marshall

20
Q

National guard called out by president eisenhower to protect 9 African American students attending a white school

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Little Rock Arkansas

21
Q

Sparks the Montgomery bus boycott

A

Rosa Parks

22
Q

Delivers his “I have a dream” at the march on Washington

A

Martin Luther king

23
Q

Prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, nationality in public accommodations

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Civil right act 1964

24
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Disagreed with MLK over the philosophy of nonviolent resistance

25
Q

Young people who road through the south yo protest segregated interstate travel

A

Freedom riders

26
Q

Voting rights eliminated the

A

Literacy test

27
Q

Feminine mystique

A

Betty Friedan

28
Q

Failed to pass state ratification by 1983, some saw the liberation of women as a threat to traditional American life

29
Q

cofounder of the National Farmers workers association and fight for Latin American civil rights

A

Cesar Chávez

30
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Allowed for curriculum to be taught in a child’s native language

A

The Bilingual Educational Act

31
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Communist north Vietnamese leader who caught against the French and the us

A

Hi chi minh

32
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Us in Vietnam main goal

A

Stop the spread of communism

33
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Fear that is Vietnam fell into communism other southeast Asian countries would also fall to communism

A

Domino theory

34
Q

After south Vietnamese fell to communism, Cambodia fell to a communist govt called. _________this brutal regime killed more than a million Cambodians

A

Khmer Rouge

35
Q

Gave the us president broad military powers in Vietnam

A

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

36
Q

First extensive bombing of Nortg Vietnam

A

Operation rolling thunder

37
Q

Commander of US troops in south Vietnam

A

William Westmoreland

38
Q

Most YS soldiers who fought in Vietnam were

39
Q

Lead killing toxin used to clear jungles of Vietnam

A

Agent Orange

40
Q

TET offensive, assassinations of mlk and jfk

41
Q

People who opposed the war and thought the US should withdraw

42
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People who supported the war

43
Q

Knowledge of the event fueled anti war movement

A

My Lai Massacre

44
Q

Classified documents, leaked to the press outline plans to escalate US involvement in Vietnam when the public was told other wise

A

Pentagon Papers

45
Q

Purpose was to restrict the power of the president relating to military action

A

Was powers act

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