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franklin delano roosevelt

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32nd president one of the most productive presidents helped the US through Great Depression

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flapper

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rebellious woman who dresses untriditionally

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hoovervilles

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makeshift shanty towns that sprung up during the great depression

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red scare

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widespread fear of communism

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fundmentalism

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people who believe the bible word for word

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eighteenth amendment

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prohibited the manufacturing and selling of alcohol

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speakeasy

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illegal bars

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dust bowl

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dust storm that went through texas, oklahoma,

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sacco and venzetti

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arrested for armed robbery and murder but found innocent

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henry ford

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maker of ford company made the first car company was big after great depression

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scopes trial

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teacher from tennessee that got put on trial for teaching biology

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dw griffith

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filmmaker who made birth of a nation created a new art form

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economic causes of great depression

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the stock market crash of 1929; the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; government policies; bank failures and panics; and the collapse of the money supply

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financial causes of the great depression

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stock market collapse, waves of bankruptcy and bank failure, and contractions in the money stock

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long-term response of hoover

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Hoover requested that the Federal Reserve increase credit, and he persuaded Congress to transfer agricultural surpluses from the Federal Farm Board to the Red Cross for distribution to relief agencies. Hoover asked Congress for even more spending on public works

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effects of the great depression

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drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation in almost every country of the world

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new deal

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relief: for people suffering from depression
reform: to prevent serious economic crises in the future
recovery: reform a better economy

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fdr’s hundred days

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100 days of FDR’s presidency
FDR placed key parts of program

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al capone

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joined johnny torrio’s gang the colosimo gang
1920 moved to chicago
became influential lieutenant
created the fbi and international stuff

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lucky luciano

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gangster helped naval intelligence

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court packing

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the idea of adding justices to the supreme court or lower courts to shift the balance in a liberal, conservative or other direction

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adolf hitler

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leader of nazi germany

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joesph stalin

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leader of soviet union

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winston churchill

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great britian’s prime minster during ww2

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hideki tojo

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served as tokyo’s prime minister

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benito mussolini

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leader of fascist italy

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robert oppenheimer

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responsible for building the first atomic bomb

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blizkrieg

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lighting war, combination of air attacks and fast moving armored strikes deep into territories

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truman doctorine

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established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

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axis powers

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germany italy and japan

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allied powers

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great britian
france
russia (USA replaces them)
italy

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appeasement

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giving into aggressive demands to maintain peace

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totalitarian

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form of government in which a person or party in charge has absolute power

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manchuria

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area that japan takes from china prior to ww2 to have resources and territory

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rhineland

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hitler wanted control of rhineland
industrial capital he wanted it
1936 germans cross into the rhineland and reoccupy the territory

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anschluss

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austria and germany create union

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sudetenland

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area of German speaking territory in Germany

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which describes the government in the ww2

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totaltarian

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battle of britain

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great britain was alone by germany
nation was led by churchill
people were inspired by him
never once thought about surrendering
german plan was to destroy RAF (Royal Air Force)
thanks to radar, british forces were to see when germany was going to attack
battle wore on the Luftwaffe German Air Force began bombing Britain
stopped targeting the RAF
britain wins the battle

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operation overload

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planned invasion of france

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battle of the bulge

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last german offensive of the war

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pearl harbor

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complete surprise
4 battleships sunk 4 more damaged
more than 200 planes destroyed
2,400 Americans killed
⭐ results in america joining WWII

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baatan death march

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forcing filipino and americans to march through the philippines

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battle of midway

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Japan’s Plan
Lure the rest of the U.S. navy out to sea then destroy it
U.S. Advantage
Broken Japanese codes
Knew date of Japanese attack and direction of attack
U.S. met Japanese planes before they attacked the island
Japanese planes went back to the aircraft carriers
U.S. destroyed the carriers
Significance
Japanese loses Naval advantage

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battle of leyte

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u.s. destroy the remaining Japanese navy

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battle of okinawa

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350 miles from Tokyo
Would be launching pad for invasion of Japanese mainland
Japanese tactics
Hide in caves and launch assaults
Outcome: U.S. Victory

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manhattan project

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code name for the creation on the atomic bomb

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holocaust

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destruction or slaughter on a mass scale
mass execution of jews by hitler during ww2

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yalta conference

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met to discuss what to do with Germany

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george f kennan

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former us director of policy planning

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fidel castro

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captured havana capital of Cuba became dictator

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rosenburgs

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american couple executed for passing atomic secrets to soviet agents

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nikita khrushchev

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replaced stalin

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joesph mccarthy

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u.s. senator who falsely accused Americans having communist ties

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alger hiss

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u.s. government official accused of being a communist

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john f kennedy

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a democrat won a close presidential election in 1960 defeating republican richard nixon

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great siocety

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In the 1964 presidential election with barry goldwater lbj was re-elected
johnson used his popularity to call a great society that would end poverty and injustice

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new frontier

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a term for Kennedy’s proposals to resolve economic, educational, healthcare, and civil rights issues and to explore states

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massive retaliation

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us willingness to use nuclear force

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eisenhower doctorine

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us declared it would help to request any nation in the middle east trying to resist armed communist nation

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johnson doctrine

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the formal declaration of the intention of the united states to intervene in such affairs

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programs for better world

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA)

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roots of cold war

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ww2

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korean war

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A conflict between north korea and south korea in which the united states along with other un countries, fought on the side of the south koreans while china fought on the side of the north koreans

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effect of soviet hydrogen bomb

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effect of the hydrogen bomb was that death was highly likely and radiation poisoning it wiped out cities and populations

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cuban missile crisis

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together leaked over 5,000 classified documents to british and us intelligence forces
american intelligence agency photographed the soviet nuclear missile installations in cuba
missiles threatened major cities in the us

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warren commission

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to investigate the assassination of president john fitzgerald kennedy

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douglas mcaurthur

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in charge of allied powers

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sputnik one

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October 4, 1957 184 lbs steel ball with transmitter launched into space

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alliance for progress

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economic cooperation between north and south america, particularly aimed at countering the perceived communist threat from cuba

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hot spots for the cold war

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germany, poland, greece, czechoslovakia, china, korea, vietnam, cuba

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nasa

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organization that coordinates the space related efforts and the military

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medicare

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grandparents help with drugs

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martin luthur king jr

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civil rights activist inspiring speech at a boycott meeting propelled him into the leadership of nonviolent civil rights movement

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malcom x

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a minster in the nation of islam which called for african americans to break from white society
he led the nation of islam until 1964. he was assassinated in 1965

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medgar evers

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who was instrumental in helping meredith gain admittance to “Ole Miss” was murdered in June 1969

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earl warren

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chief justice during brown vs board decision

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thurgood marshall

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led the NAACP legal team in Brown v.s. Board of Education

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richard nixon

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jfk defeated him in election race repaced lbj in office first president to resign from office

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vietnamization

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of the war which would transfer front-line fighting to South Vietnamese

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pacification

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“win the hearts and minds” of the south vietnamese people by calming or pacifying them

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geneva conference

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are four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war.

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little rock nine

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when nine African American students tried to enter Central High the governor had the National Guard stop them

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rosa parks

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was arrested for giving up her seat to a white person
This sparked a boycott to integrate public transportation
The black community walked or carpooled to rather take public transport

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24th amendment

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prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.

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black panthers

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was a militant group organized to protect blacks from police abuse

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freedom rides

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to protest segregation on the interstate transportation system

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freedom summer

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the summer of 1954 the SNCC enlisted 1,000 volunteers to help african americans in the south to vote
Three campaign volunteers were murdered but other volunteers were not deterred
From this effort the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was formed as an alternative to the all white state democratic party

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de jure segeration

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in south segregation required by law

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de facto segeration

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In the north
Discrimination in housing
Discrimination in employment
Only low-paying jobs were available

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domino theory

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which said that if Vietnam became communist it’s closest neighbors would follow

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gulf of tonkin

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North Vietnam attacked a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin

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operation rolling thunder

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was to Americanize the war effort
The US would use it’s superior war technology to win conflict quickly

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ho chi minh trail

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suppy trail between north and south vietnam

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tet offensive

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a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam

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search and destroy

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inserting ground forces into hostile territory, searching out the enemy, destroying them, and withdrawing immediately afterward

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vietcong strategies in vietnam

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retreating when the enemy attacked; raiding enemy camps; attacking the enemy when they were tired and pursuing the enemy when they retreated

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nixon vietnam strategies

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Publicly Nixon advocated the Vietnamization of the war which would transfer front-line fighting to South Vietnamese
Secretly Nixon ordered the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia to reduce flow of supplies
Extended the war with a ground attack by U.S. soldiers on North Vietnamese bases in Cambodia

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my lai massacre

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U.S. soldiers searching for Vietcong in the village of My Lai had killed hundreds of unarmed civilians

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pentagon papers

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The report revealed that American leaders had lied to Congress and failed to inform the public fully about the American involvement in Vietnam

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