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Final Exam Terms Flashcards

1
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President 1980-1988

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Ronald Reagan

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2
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Used television to motivate Christians to be political

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Charismatic Movement

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Sought to lower inflated prices and increase the supply of goods

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Supply-side economics

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Pledged Americas support to insurgent groups battling communism

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Reagan doctrine

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5
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Anti-Sandinista guerrillas directed by the CIA

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Contras

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6
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Used as a fueling station for Cuban communists

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Grenada

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7
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Democratic candidate in 1988

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Walter Mondale

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8
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First female candidate for VP

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Geraldine Ferraro

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9
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Took charge of the USSR in 1985

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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10
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Shift from command economics to free enterprise

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Perestroika

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11
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Openness of trade and ideas in Russia

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Glasnost

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12
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Eliminated most medium-range missiles

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Intermediate nuclear forces treaty

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13
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Christian television: 700 club

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Pat Robertson

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14
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53 Americans taken for the embassy in Tehran

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Iranian hostage crisis

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15
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Took power of Iran after the fall of the shah

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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16
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Peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel

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Camp David accords

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17
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By 2000, the Panamanians world own and operate the canal

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Panama Canal treaty

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18
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Advocated women’s rights

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Feminists

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19
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High inflation and high unemployment

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Stagflation

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20
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OPEC nations increased prices 300%

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Oil embargo

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21
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President ford gave one to Nixon

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Pardon

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22
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Cause of Nixon’s resignation

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Watergate affair

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23
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Nixon’s VP who also resigned

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Spiro Agnew

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24
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Only non-elected president

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Gerald Ford

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25
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Democratic nominee 1972

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George McGovern

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26
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National guardsmen open fire on students

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Kent state

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27
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Prove many lies regarding Vietnam

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Pentagon papers

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28
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Nixon’s Secretary of State

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Henry Kissinger

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29
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Attempted to integrate Americas public schools

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Busing

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30
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Americas were quiet, decent, and respectable

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Silent majority

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31
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Republican nominee 1972

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Richard Nixon

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32
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Assassinated by sirhan sirhan

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Robert Kennedy

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33
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Leader of the civil rights movement

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MLK

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34
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Hippie culture; nonconformists

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Counterculture

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35
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60,000 Viet cong surprised our forces

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Tet offensive

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35
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Included amendments regarding voting and equal treatment

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Civil rights

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36
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Civil rights protest: I have a dream speech

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March on Washington

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37
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Determined: separate is not equal

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Brown v. Board of education

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38
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Unprecedented growth in population post WWII

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Baby boom

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39
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Govt agency for volunteers to help underdeveloped nations

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Peace corps

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40
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President during the “Camelot” era

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John F. Kennedy

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41
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Guilty of treason

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Alger Hiss

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42
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Use of lies, distortion, and innuendo to destroy another person

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McCarthyism

43
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Stood from 1961 to 1989

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Berlin Wall

44
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Khrushchev put long range missiles 90 miles from our shore

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Cuban missile crisis

45
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Our CIA failed to create democracy in Cuba

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Bay of pigs

46
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Post Korea foreign policy regarding Communism

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Peaceful coexistence

47
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Eisenhower’s belief: communism in America

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Domino theory

48
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Code named: “fat man” and “little boy”

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Atomic bomb

49
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Demand for Japan’s unconditional surrender

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Potsdam

50
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The attempted genocide of the Jewish nation by Hitler

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Holocaust

51
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Young men used for suited flights in WWII

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Kamikazes

52
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Securing air bases on less-fortified islands in the pacific

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Island hoping

53
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Winter in the Ardennes Forest in 1944

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Battle of the bulge

54
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June 6, 1944 - largest amphibious attack in history

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D-day invasion

55
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Led by Eisenhower, land troops in Africa

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Operation torch

56
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General of German panzer division

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Erwin Rommel

57
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Nationwide war effort limiting various goods

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Rationing

58
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FDRs program to assist Great Britain with supplies and industry

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Lend-lease

59
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Erosion of farm lands due to over producing in the 1930s

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Dust bowl

60
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Provisions given to the unemployed during the depression

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Bread lines

61
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Share with wealth - socialism candidate

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Huey Long

62
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Bank accounts insured by the federal government

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FDIC

63
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Project to build dams along the Tennessee river

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TVA

64
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Helped debt ridden farmers keeps their land

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AAA

65
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Created jobs and built roads, public buildings, and parks

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WPA

66
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FDRs weekly talk with America via radio broadcast

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Fireside chats

67
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FDRs promise to the American people after the depression

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New Deal

68
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Fire upon by McArthur during the Hoover Presidency

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Bonus army

69
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Highest tariff in American history: destroyed foreign trade

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Smooth-Hawley tariff

70
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Caused by many factors, including the crash of ‘29

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Great Depression

71
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Investors paid only a percentage of the cost of the stock

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On the margin

72
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Buying something with the hope of selling is later at a profit

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Speculation

73
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Small monthly payments until the item is paid for

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Installment plans

74
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Christians who fought to remove modernists from their churches

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Fundamentalism

75
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Chicago psychopath, eventually jailed for tax evasion

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Al Capone

76
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1921 American idol - sports in America begins

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Babe Ruth

77
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Begins the science of psychology

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Sigmund Freud

78
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Develops the theory of relativity

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Albert Einstein

79
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Reduced German reparations of WWII only slightly

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Dawes Plan

80
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The federal laws making liquor illegal

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Prohibition

81
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Fear of communism in American

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Red scare

82
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Club where liquor was served during prohibition

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Speak easy

83
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Woodrow Wilson, George Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando, David Lloyd George

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Big four

84
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German nation was responsible for the war and all legal damages therein

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War-guilt

85
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WWI truce

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Armistice

86
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Nickname for WWI American soldier

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Doughboy

87
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Revealed that Germany asked Mexico to invade the USA

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Zimmerman telegram

88
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Wilson stated America would declare war if another passenger ship was attacked

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Sussex passage

89
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German leader during WWI

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

90
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Chased back into Mexico by John J. “Black Jack” Pershing

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Pancho Villa

91
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Submarine

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U-boat

92
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April 6, 1917

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USA in WWI

93
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Ideals for peace written by Woodrow Wilson

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14 points

94
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Later becomes the United Nations, designed by Woodrow Wilson

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League of Nations

95
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Adapted learning so to relate to the child’s interests

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Progressive education

96
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Created the airplane

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Wright brothers

97
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Created the model-t and the assembly line

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Henry Ford

98
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Defined and halted unfair business practices

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Federal trade commission

99
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Peace between Russia and Japan

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Root-Takahira agreement

100
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TR non-violent show of power

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Great white fleet

101
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Policeman of Latin America

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Roosevelt Corollary

102
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Assisted people of color in the early 1900s

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NAACP

103
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Outlawed impure food

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Pure food and drug act

104
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TR’s promise to Americans

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Square deal

105
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Journalists who exposed abuse and corruption

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Muckrakers

106
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Mrs. Martins favorite president

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Teddy Roosevelt

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