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History Exam 3 Flashcards

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George Keenan

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Who: U.S. Diplomat in the USSR
What: Proposed the "Containment Theory"
When: 1946
Where: Moscow and Washington DC
Why: wrote the "Long Telegram" informing the US about the USSRs plan to spread communism throughout the world
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UN Security Council

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Who: 15 world governments
What: World police
When: 1945
Where: New York; The Hague
Why: ensures Anglo-Americans influence in world events. 5 permanents members and 10 rotating members with veto power
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Truman Doctrine

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Who: President Truman
What: Speech before Congress warning that the US should stop the spread of communism by all means necessary
When: 1947
Where: Washington, D.C.
Why: plan in order to stop the spread of communism. Turkey and Greece were the first to benefit from this policy.

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Marshall Plan

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Who: Secretary of State George Marshall
What: Gave needed money to Western European countries (mainly France and Italy) to help them rebuild after WW2
When: 1947
Where: Washington, D.C.
Why: plan to help stop the spread of communism in Western Europe. Countries receiving aide under this plan had to resist communism

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“Cold War”

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Who: Walter Lippmann
What: American Journalist who coined the term “Cold war” to identify tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union
When: 1948
Where: New York
Why: tensions between the US and the USSR. While Lippmann did not see the Soviet Union as a legitimate threat, the Cold War lasted decades

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National Security Act

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Who: Congress
What: laws passed by congress to fight the threat of communism at home
When: 1947
Where: Washington, D.C.
Why: in order to better fight communism, this act formed NSC, NSA, CIA, USAF

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Berlin Airlifts

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Who: Allies and Soviet Union
What: Flights over Soviet Union controlled east Germany to bring supplies to West Berlin
When: 1948
Where: Berlin
Why: 1st confrontation between former allies. With over 10,000 flights in

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NATO

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Who: 12 original allied nations
What: alliance to help stop the spread of communism
When: 1949
Where: Europe and North America Why: established after the Berlin airlift incident, created an alliance between free government to come to each other’s aide should one be attacked by a communist country

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“To Secure These Rights…”

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Who: Congress
What: Report by Committee on Civil Rights
When: 1947
Where: Washington, D.C.
Why: civil rights report requested by president Truman in order to identify the struggles of African Americans in the south. Led to the integration of the military in 1947

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Harry S. Truman

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Who: 33rd US President
What: proposed the Truman doctrine and led the US in the Berlin Airlift
When: 1945-1953
Where: Washington DC
Why: won re election in 1948 after given little or no chance to win. Led the United States at the end of the WW2 and beginning of the Cold War

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Dixiecrats

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Who: southern democrats
What: old conservatives hard liners
When: 1948
Where: southern states
Why: while they split from the democratic party and did not support Truman, they were not able to influence the outcome of the election as Truman won re election and upset the Dewey favorites
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Second Red Scare

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Who: US government
What: fear the communist would take over the country
When: 1950s
Where: Washington, D.C. and Urban US
Why: led to many unproven accusations of people being communist sympathizers and of innocent lives being destroyed

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Niger Mars/ Pumpkin papers

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Who: career diplomat 
What: accused of being a communist 
When: 1950
Where: Washington, D.C. 
Why: proved that there were communist spies in the United States. Hiss was found not guilty of being a communist spy. Hiss was however found guilty of perjury
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McCarthyism

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Who: senator Joe McCarthy
What: said to have a list of government officials who were communist sympathizers
When: 1950
Where: Washington, D.C.
Why: increased the fear that the government had been infiltrated by communists. It turned neighbor
against neighbor and destroyed lives. He lost credibility when he challenged the army and was censure by the senate in 1954

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Korean War

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Who: China, North Korea, and UN
What: police action approved by the UN 
When: 1950-1953 
Where: Korean Peninsula 
Why: first military involvement by the US and it's allies to stop communist aggression when communist North Korea invaded democratic South Korea
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“Conformity”

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Who: society
What: fitting into society 
When: 1950s
Where: urban US
Why: the need to conform to society in order not to be singled out.
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The Kinsey Reports

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Who: zoologist
What: reports on sexual patterns of American society
When: 1947-1958
Where: New York
Why: proved that America was not as conservative

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Attack on Comic Books in the 50s

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Where: New York
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Elvis

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Who: rock n roll artist
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When: 1956
Where: New York
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Television in the 50s

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Where: New York
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Walt Disney

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Movies in the 50s

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Where: Hollywood
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UFO Scare of the 40s and 50s

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When: 1947-1969
Where: Roswell, New Mexico
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Interstate Highway Act of 1956

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“Dynamic Conversation”

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When: 1952
Where: Washington, D.C.
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Dwight Eisenhower

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Who: 34th president of the US
What: Advocate of civil rights
When: 1953-1961
Where: Washington, D.C.
Why: supported civil rights for African Americans in the Jim Crow south
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Richard Nixon

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Who: Eisenhower’s Vice President What: chosen as Ike’s running mate to appease hard liners
When: 1957-1961
Where: Washington, D.C.
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Brown v. Board of Ed

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Who: Oliver Brown v. School Board
Of Topeka, Kansas
What: US Supreme Court case
When: 1954
Where: Washington, D.C.
Why: ended segregation in public schools
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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Who: Rosa Parks
What: refusal to ride public bus transportation
When: 1955
Where: Montgomery, AL
Why: ended segregation in public buses and rose Martin Luther King as the leader of the civil rights movement

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Martin Luther King, Jr

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Who: minister and civil rights activist
What: civil rights leader
and leader of the SCLC
When: 1950s and 1960s
Where: USA, mostly southern states
Why: lead to non-violent protests throughout the south in order to bring equality to African Americans
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Emmett Till

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Who: African American teenager
What: Brutal killing in Mississippi When: 1941-1955
Where: Mississippi/Chicago
Why: will bring world wide attention to the civil rights issues of African Americans in the South

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Little Rock Nine

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Who: 9 students
What: first African American students to enroll in white school in Arkansas
When: 1957
Where: Arkansas
Why: desegregated public schools in the south

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U.S. Involvement in Vietnam (1950s and 60s)

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Who: Dwight Eisenhower 
What: stop the spread of communism in the south east Asia (domino effect)
When: 1950s-1960s
Where: Vietnam
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Gary Powers

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Who: US pilot 
What: shot down over soviet air space
When: 1960
Where: Moscow 
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Election of 1960

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When: 1960
Where: Washington, D.C.
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John F. Kennedy

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Who: 37th president of United States
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When: 1960-1963
Where: Washington, D.C.
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Robert F. Kennedy

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When: 1960
Where: Washington, D.C.
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NASA

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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Berlin Wall

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When: 1961
Where: berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Feminine Mystique

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When: 1963
Where: New York
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NOW

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When: 1966
Where: Washington, D.C.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Greensboro Sit-In

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Where: North Carolina
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“Freedom Riders”

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When: 1961
Where: Gadsden, Al
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“Letter from Birmingham Jail”

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Where: Birmingham
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1963 Civil Rights March on DC

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Great Society

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Robert Weavers

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Thurmond Marshall (1950s-60s)

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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Malcolm X

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March From Selma

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Watts Riots

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SCLC

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SDS

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1968 Olympics

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Tonkin Incident/ Resoulution

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Tet Offensive

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Election of 1968

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