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Imaginary line that separated the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West

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Iron Curtain

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The period when the US and the Soviets tried to stop the spread of each others ideologies

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Cold War

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Sending millions of tons of aid after the Soviet blockade in East Germany

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Berlin Airlift

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Leader of the People’s Republic of China

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Mao Zedong

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The period after WW2 when Americans feared that communist were infiltrating the American government

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Red Scare

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Going to the edge of war to force the other side to back down

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Brinkmanship

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Lead the AUAC

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Joseph McCarthy

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trying to stop the spread of communism

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Containment

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Boosted the economy by providing generous loans to veterans to help them establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college

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GI Bill

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The period of rapidly increasing birthrates between 1945 and 1961

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Baby Boom

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Invented the polio vaccine

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Jonas Salk

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When rock ‘n’ roll helped to create a cultural separation between children and their parents

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Generation Gap

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Sputnik

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Brought many Mexican migrant workers to the US

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Bracero Program

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Kennedy’s legislative agenda was called this

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New Frontier

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?”one man, one vote” all citizens votes would have equal weight

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reapportionment

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Stated that separate but equal wasn’t exactly legal

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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Anyone who is arrested has the right to a lawyer

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Gideon vs. Wainwright

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Banned prayer in public schools

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Engel vs. Vitale

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One of Kennedy’s plans that called for a buildup of conventional weapons

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Flexible Response

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April 17, 1961, armed Cuban exiles landed on the south coast of Cuba at where

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Bay of Pigs

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The closest the US has come to being involved in nuclear war after WW2

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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To find out if more than one person was involved in the Kennedy assassination

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Warren Commission

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Assassinated President Kennedy

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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President Johnson’s vision of the more perfect and equitable society the US could and should become

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Great Society you

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Declared when President Johnson felt that wealthy government should try to improve the lives of its citizens

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War on Poverty

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Military group- armed conflict to save our civil rights movement is what we should do

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Black Panthers

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Members of the nation of Islam and turned again their ideas

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Malcolm X

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Bloody Sunday

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Selma March

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Young people from the North who came to the South and tried to integrate places

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Freedom Riders

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference , Afro Church members in the Souther (Leader MLK Jr.)

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SCLC

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African who wouldn’t move to the back of the bus in Montgomery

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Rosa Parks

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Leader of North Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia make up what

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IndoChina

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The French withdrew fro Indochina after this battle

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Dien Bien Phu

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Put into power in the South

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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The belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, so too would the other nations of Southeast Asia

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Domino Theory

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Special fortified villages that Vietnamese peasants moved into to protect them and prevent them from aiding the Vietcong

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Strategic Hamlets

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Separate- but- Equal

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Filibuster

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?

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Martin Luther King Jr.

43
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When Congress gave its war powers to the president

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Jellied gasoline that explodes on contact

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Napalm

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The goal of this was to destroy the ability to hide in jungles

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Agent Orange

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?Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television helped create this

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Credibility Gap

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The US attacked all of the bases in North Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

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Revealed that the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam

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Pentagon Papers

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Capital of South Vietnam

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Saigon

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Split Vietnam

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17th Parallel

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This law, passed by Congress after the war, limited the President’s ability to engage US troops overseas without the approval of Congress

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War Powers Act

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Expressed the views of the Students for a Democratic Society

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Port Huron Statment

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Led the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley

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Mario Savio

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Members of this dropped out and lived in communes, sharing living arrangements with other youths

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Counterculture

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Rock festival that drew hundreds of thousands of people in 1969

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Woodstock

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Founded the National Organization for Women

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Betty Friedan

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Ruled that state could not regulate abortion in the first three months of pregnancy

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Roe vs. Wade

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Called for companies and institutions to actively recruit African American employees

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Affirmative Action

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Organized a successful grape boycott

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Cesar Chavez

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Wrote Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson

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A town where residents experienced health problems because an old toxic waste dump under the community was leaking into the ground

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Love Canal

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Pollution standards in America are enforced by this agency

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EPA

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The incident here left many people in great doubt about the safety of nuclear energy

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Three Mile Island

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Wrote unsafe at any speed that led the movement to make cars safer

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Ralph Nader

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President Nixon’s national security advisor

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Henry Kissenger

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Easing tensions between the US and the Soviet Union

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Dètente

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White House Plumbers broke into hotel at Dem. Nat. Con.

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Watergate

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A person who believes government power, particularly government power, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom

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Conservative

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Strategic Defense Initiative, it called for the development of weapons that could intercept and destroy incoming missiles

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Star Wars

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A place in Beijing where many people were killed and hundreds of pro-democracy activists were arrested- private government enterprise “ “

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Tiannanmen Square

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Chinese students for Democracy

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Perestroika

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Created Apple

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Steve Jobs

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Microsoft

74
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Invented DNA

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Watson and Crick

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?

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NAFTA

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Promised to reduce emissions but very few went into affect by Clinton

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Kyoto Protocol

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