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9/1/1939- German troops and tanks roll into to attack ______. Germany came in from west, Russia came in from east. Poland wasn’t ready. All they had was horses and wagons to defend them. Not like the new tech of the germans who had been preparing since ab 1933 when Hitler took over. Their legislature is the Duma with 500 ppl and all 500 have to vote yes to get something passed.

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Poland

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lightning war. Often seen in WW2

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Blitzkreig

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Swastika was symbol for the_______ aka Nazi Germany. Usually black circled in red.

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The Third Reich

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Evacuation of Dunkirk 6/1940

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1940 France Surrenders (Compiegne)

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Blitz is what Churchill called it. He wanted daily war reports but shortened and summarized.

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Battle of Britain 8-9/1940

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Ava Braun

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is code word from Germany

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Operation Barbarossa

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The date of Pearl Harbor

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12/7/41

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_____was the biggest casualty. It was sunk and all of its ppl went down with it bc their rescuers couldn’t get them. For days morse code could be heard from the passengers saying to get them out.

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USS Arizona

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Concentration camps

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(supposed to be on the fifth but it rained.) is D-Day. It happened in Normandy. Eisenhower was in charge of this. Where is invasion gonna happen?? Very secretive. Code name was Operation Overlord. The fake invasion at Calle was called Fortitude.

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6/6/44

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12/44 Battle of Bulge

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There are islands on the way but the japanese controlled them. So we’d go in and attack the island we want and take it over. Then we would surround other islands to take them over. This is called

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Island Hopping

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There are islands on the way but the japanese controlled them. So we’d go in and attack the island we want and take it over. Then we would surround other islands to take them over. This is called island hopping.
Iwo Jima is one of these.
Another is _________
Both of these battles lasted several months a piece.

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Guadalcanal

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( Admiral Nimitz was over this battle. ) we sent in a fake purple magic message for the Japanese to hear that said we were having difficulties. They then decided to “ambush” us but we ended up ambushing them by setting them up. They lost 4 carriers ( about a couple of hundred airplanes over all dispersed through these carriers.) here at this battle. They were most concerned ab saving the portrait of the emperor instead of saving their men or boats. They saw their emperor as like a god to them.

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Battle of Midway

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9/2/45 U.S.S. Missouri

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_____were suicide bombers who planes into boats but they weren’t very successful by not sinking boats and being shot down.

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Kamikaze

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Enola Gay is plane selected to fly to drop bomb on ____ on August 6, 1945. The allies wanted this to make the Japanese unconditionally surrender.

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Hiroshima

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___is plane selected to fly to drop bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The allies wanted this to make the Japanese unconditionally surrender.

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Enola Gay

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Allowed to keep Hirohito

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-Back in America comes big ____after WW2. At this time we were getting tvs (leave it to Beaver- where dad went to work and mom stayed home and worked with lots of money- this shows some of the 1950s)and (Happy Days, another TV show), interstates, automobiles.

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Baby boom

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Zones of Occupation

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Balance of Power

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Harry S. Truman

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____ fires up again in 1954 in Vietnam. War was never officially declared here, it was a Conflict too. The US ended up withdrawing from this war leaving it back to the SOuth Vietnamese who ended up losing. This was the first televised war.

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Cold War

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Divided Germany

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___ (created in Warsaw) saying that if any communists are attacked the other communists will help them out.

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Warsaw Pact

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____conflict. US never actually declared war on Korea and it ended in a tie. Macarthur’s solution to Korea was to nuclear bomb it and be done with it but when the communists had pushed the capitalists to almost no room left but Truman said no (and later fired him in Hawaii.) The capitalists were able to push on though with their landing at Inchon and push communists to barely having room left. But then the push evens out and goes back to the 38th Parallel, right where they started.

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Korean Conflict 1950-1953

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MASH

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Eisenhower

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The truce is finally signed for the Korean Conflict in 1953 at the___ with a DMZ (demilitarized zone) on both sides

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38 Parallel

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____ of Topeka Kansas changes segregation. Linda Brown wanted to go the white school right across the street from her house. The name of the school was Summer. Supreme Court approves.

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1954 Brown v. Board of Ed.

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1956 Uprising in Hungary

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U2 Incident

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When Rosa Park wouldn’t give up her seat on the bus what was that called

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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-1959 Castro takes rule over Cuba and puts communist nation 90 miles off our border. It became Communist in 1959. It’s still communist today with more castro’s ruling. But it isn’t as strict anymore. Ppl would try to escape from Cuba back when it was super communist.
In ____ a missile could of hit us in no time to prepare.

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1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

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JFK thing was the New Frontier.- “ASk not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country” and that by the end of the decade that the US would put a man on the moon (we followed through with it on July 1969). He said both of these things in his inaugural address.

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New Frontier

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September 1, 1939

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Sitzkeig

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Winston Churchill

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Maginot Line

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before US was involved, they leased their leftover 50 destroyers from WW1 to Britain as long as they leased the US some of their naval bases for a dollar for the next 99 years. It was a legal transaction because it was paid for.

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Lend Lease Program

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Lebensraum

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Invasion Russia 6/22/41

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Battle of Stalingrad

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Pearl Harbor

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Sabotage

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June 6, 1944 (supposed to be on the fifth but it rained.) is D-Day. It happened in Normandy. Eisenhower was in charge of this. Where is invasion gonna happen?? Very secretive. Code name was _______. The fake invasion at Calle was called Fortitude.

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Operation Overlord

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“Final Solution”

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Normandy

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( victory in europe day is why it’s called ____) the day the war against germany is over (but not against japanese.)

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May 7, 1945 VE day

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Atomic Bomb

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There are islands on the way but the japanese controlled them. So we’d go in and attack the island we want and take it over. Then we would surround other islands to take them over. This is called island hopping.
____is one of these.
Another is Guadalcanal.
Both of these battles lasted several months a piece.

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Iwo Jima

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______ is supreme allied commander of pacific.
He chewed a corn cob pipe and his famous quote was “I shall return. “ when he was forced to retreat from the Philippines. After the war, in Hawaii, he and Truman got into an argument to see who would get to land first because who is most important. Truman got to land first because he fired macarthur then and there.
Another famous quote of his “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. “ Meaning they stay famous.
A famous joke of his was he had so much power that hirohito had to ask him to go to the bathroom.

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Douglass MacArthur

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Emperor Hirohito

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Much of pacific war was____ against USA planes. We knew we had to bomb them but we didn’t have a plane that had enough fuel to get to Japan. So we take islands to make pit stops at

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Japanese zero

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Nagasaki

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Brock’s Boxcar

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____is victory in Japan day.

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VJ Day Sept 2, 1945

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____was established to help get returning soldiers back on their feet.

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Montgomery Scott GI bill

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US Secretary of State Marshall came up with a plan - the _________- where we send money to europe to make up for war and rebuild. It sent it to the rest of the allied powers except for USSR/ Russia because they are communists.

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Marshall Plan

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Domino Theory

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At end of WW2 Truman puts in place the ______in US saying we aren’t going to allow the spread of Communism. The original doc was Truman Doctrine that said we will go to Greece ( who was having unrest) and keep Russians. When Eisenhower Doctrine comes he changes it to saying they’ll go anywhere to stop the spread, not just Greece.

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Containment policy

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Iron Curtain

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Berlin Blockade 1948

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Korean Conflict (1950-1953.) US never actually declared war on Korea and it ended in a tie. Macarthur’s solution to Korea was to nuclear bomb it and be done with it but when the communists had pushed the capitalists to almost no room left but Truman said no (and later fired him in Hawaii.) The capitalists were able to push on though with their landing at ______ and push communists to barely having room left. But then the push evens out and goes back to the 38th Parallel, right where they started.

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The truce is finally signed for the Korean Conflict in 1953 at the 38th parallel with a _____ (demilitarized zone) on both sides.

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-At end of WW2 Truman puts in place the Containment Policy in US saying we aren’t going to allow the spread of Communism. The original doc was _____ that said we will go to Greece ( who was having unrest) and keep Russians. When Eisenhower Doctrine comes he changes it to saying they’ll go anywhere to stop the spread, not just Greece.

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Truman Doctrine

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1956 Suez Crisis

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Francis Gary Powers

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Who was with the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Rosa Parks

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Martin L King Jr.

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1959 ______ takes rule over Cuba and puts communist nation 90 miles off our border. It became Communist in 1959. It’s still communist today with more ______’s ruling. But it isn’t as strict anymore. Ppl would try to escape from Cuba back when it was super communist.
In Cuban Missile Crisis a missile could of hit us in no time to prepare.

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Fidel Castro

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JFK was our youngest president at that time and prob the richest too bc he came from money. He was a WW2 war hero an “old war hero” who had back injuries and had to take many pills. There are many similarities between him and Lincoln. (His secretary was named Lincoln and Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.)
-He was the only Catholic President
We make fun of his Boston accent (Cuber.)
- His thing was the New Frontier.- “ASk not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country” and that by the end of the decade that the US would put a man on the moon (we followed through with it on July 1969). He said both of these things in his inaugural address.
- During his presidency (august 1961) Berlin Wall went up overnight with snipers by Russians saying we want to keep the West out but really they wanted to keep the East Berliners from escaping to the west bc they had no Marshall money. The wall got covered in graffiti over time. Wall comes down in (1989 or 1991?) and it’s seen as the end of Communism bc there is not longer a split.
- With his accent when he tried to say “I’m a citizen of west Berlin” he accidentally said “I’m a jelly donut.” during a speech to west germany. when Jackie was shopping in Europe spending $10,000 on a dress.
His assassination had a big impact on country bc he was so popular and a champion for equal rights!

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John F. Kennedy

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George C. Wallace

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In 1963, George Wallace stands in the door of Alabama. _______of Foster Auditorium at U of A .

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Stand in school house door

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-The wife of JFK
-Jacquie was so busy she had to have 2 secretaries- one for professional life and another to keep up with personal life. They had to keep up with what she wore so she never wore it twice and she might change clothes 6 or 8 times a day.
They had 2 kids who lived and 2 kids who died. They had a boy named Patrick (lived 2 or 3 days) who died and a girl (stillborn) who was never named who died. Caroline is the only one still alive. And then there was John Jr. with his pic of him peeking out of his dad’s desk and him saluting the flag with the coffin that held his dad when he was 3.

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Jacqueline B. Kennedy

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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“I Had a Dream” by MLK in 1963 at Washington Monument across from the mall. The theme of the speech was for everyone to be equal.

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I have a dream speech

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Bull Conner

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Freedom Rides

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Selma March.
“I Had a Dream” by MLK in 1963 at Washington Monument across from teh mall. The theme of the speech was for everyone to be equal.
He was assassinated April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN and his mom was assassinated a couple years later in Atlanta at her home Church playing piano.

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Civil Rights movement

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1949 Communist China

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Mao Tse Tung was communist (Communists were Red China) defeated _____ (a capitalist) and made him leave and go to Taiwan. For years, US would not recognize Mao and only recognized Chiang and gave him a spot in the UN. China is still Communist today.

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Chaing Kai Shek

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Berlin Wall 1961

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Fidel Castro

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Brezhnev Doctrine

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Army McCarthy hearings

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Carpet bombing

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500,000 troops

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Richard Nixon

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Impeachment

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1948 Israel founded

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Jimmy Carter

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O.P.E.C oil embargo

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Margaret Thatcher

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Solidarity

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1989 Year of Revolution

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Desert Shield

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George Bush

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Bill Clinton

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One of Clinton’s scandals

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Monica Lewinsky

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Bosnia-Herogovinia

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was the year two thousand and the grid might stop and they were scared what computers were going to do.

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here was a van full of explosions in a van in 1993 though so it wasn’t the first attack on it. Four planes- 2 to for trade towers, one for pentagon, and one that was headed to White House but the ppl got ahold of it and it crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

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Donald Trump

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The____was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies.

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Selma march

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November 22, 1963

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Birmingham

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Civil Rights Act of 64

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says how close we are to WW3. During Cuban Missile Crisis it was three minutes from midnight and when it strikes midnight is when WW3 is said to start.

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Doomsday clock

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was communist (Communists were Red China) defeated Chiang Kai Shek (a capitalist) and made him leave and go to Taiwan. For years, US would not recognize ____ and only recognized Chiang and gave him a spot in the UN. China is still Communist today.

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Mao Tse Tung

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Taiwan (Formosa)

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When Stalin died_____ became next leader and he got his training from Stalin. He was opinionated and thought it was gonna be his way or no way. During one speech at the UN he slams his shoe on the table to get everyone’s attention.Later he loses his power in 1964 bc he’s viewed as too soft on the US. (ruled from 1953-1964)
-______ is succeeded by Brezhnev.

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N. Khrushchev

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Vietnam War 63-75

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Joseph MccArthy (MccArthyism) the ______

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Joseph MccArthy (MccArthyism) the Red Scare. He thought Communists were invading the country. He accuses the top members of our army of being a communist and made a “______” of hollywood actors who were communists. I Love Lucy was accused bc she was married to a Cuban. He’s like the boy who called wolf.

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Black lists

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In 1964, a gunboat in South China Sea is attacked in the ____

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Gulf of Tonkin 1964

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Vietnamization 1969

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Dien Bien Phu 1954

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Executive Privilege

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Yom Kippur War 1973

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Iran hostages

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1982 Falkland War

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1985 Gorbachev

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Lech Walesa

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Fall of Communism

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Rumania 12/25 Persian Gulf

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Sadam Hussein

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Desert Storm

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Boris Yeltsin

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Hillary Clinton

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George W. Bush

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The Towers that go hit on 9/11/01

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Twin Towers

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Barak Obama

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What was the thesis for the Cold War? 10 points

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Civil rights? 5 points

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