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Nickname for LBJ

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Master of legislative compromise

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How many major bills passed with LBJ

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181/200

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What was the great society

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Plan for domestic reform

Abundance, Liberty, end to poverty and racial injustice

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Lbj’s war on poverty

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Persuaded congress to pass Medicare and Medicaid
Healthcare to the needy
Improved American Indian reservations

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What opportunities did LBJ provide

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27 women to upper level government positions

Mexican Americans in high positions overseeing Mexican American affairs

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What is segregation

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The enforced separation of different racial groups

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When did segregation become legal

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1896

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What was brown vs. board of education

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NAACP challenges segregation by sending Lynda Brown to a nearby white school instead of far black school
Overturned plessy vs. Ferguson
Separate is inherently not equal
Separating children of different races is unconstitutional

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When did the little rock 9 start

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1957

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Who were the little rock nine

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9 African American students enrolled at little rock central high school
Mass protest
Eisenhower sends 101st airborne to enforce desegregation

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When was the bus boycott

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1957

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Where was the bus boycott

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Montgomery

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What was the bus boycott

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NAACP seeks end to segregation in transportation in south
Back for blacks, front for whites
Rosa parks is arrested for refusing to give up seats
MLKJ organizes

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How old was MLKJ

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26

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What was MLKJ

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Baptist minister who organized non-violent protest

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What was the civil rights act of 1957

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Protected black right to vote

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17
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When were the freedom riders

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1960

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What did the freedom riders do

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Rode buses through southern cities in protest

Arrested and beaten

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When was the march on Washington

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1963

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What happened at the March on Washington

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I have a dream speech

What america could and should be

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What was the civil rights act of 1964

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Banned discrimination in employment

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What happened to MLKJ

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Assassinated in Memphis 1968

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Who was Malcolm X

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Member of Nation of Islam
Encouraged violent protest until he visited Mecca
Assassinated by Nation of Islam 1965

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What did Ho Chi Minh do

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Declared Vietnam independent from France 1945
Organized communist government
Defeated French in 1954

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Who did America support

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South Vietnam

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What was the Vietcong

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Guerrilla tactic warriors fighting against pro US government in the south

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27
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What does JFK send

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900 military advisers in 1960

16000 by 1963

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What was the Tonkin gulf resolution

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Passed by congress
Gave Johnson more authority over military to prevent further aggression
President can conduct war without declaring war

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29
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US strategy in Vietnam

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Rolling thunder

Ground war

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What was rolling thunder

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Superior air power to break N. Vietnam

Bombing campaigns

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Ground war

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Us troops sent in to subdue VC
Frustrated by guerrilla tactics
Invisible enemy who is everywhere

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32
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When was the tet offensive

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1968

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What was the tet offensive

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Surprise attack from VC
84000 Vietcong soldiers hit 100 cities and 12 US bases
Technical victory for US
40000 Vietcong killed

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34
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What did Americans feel after tet

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War is endless

Anti Johnson

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35
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Who were the doves

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Against war

36
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Who were the Hawks

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More bombings and more troops

37
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Who were the SDS

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Students for a democratic society

Movement attracted broad range of people against war

38
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Nixon’s 1968 campaign

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End war and get troops out of Vietnam
Turn fighting over to South Vietnamese
Bombings increased and fighting continued

39
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End of Vietnam war

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Cease fire agreed January 27, 1973

South Vietnam overrun in 1975

40
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About the baby boomers

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Different experience than elders

Frustrated by organization and structures

41
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About college students

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Actively protested discrimination and war

Sit ins

42
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What organizations did baby boomers hate

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Governments
Corporations
Universities

43
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When was the summer of love

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1969

44
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What was the summer of love

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Young people disillusioned with organized political action
Abandoned traditions and social norms
Drugs
Communes
Woodstock
45
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What was Woodstock

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Music and art fair 1969
500000 flower children in bethel New York
3 days of peace love and music

46
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Women activism

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Inspired by civil rights movement

Challenged cult of domesticity

47
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Who was Betty Friedan

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Wrote the feminine mystique 1963
Middle class home a concentratoin camp
National organization for women
Struggle alone with home activities, afraid to ask is this all

48
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What was the national organization for women

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Led efforts to end job discrimination

Legalize abortion

49
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Roe versus wade

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1973

Supreme Court rules states cannot forbid abortion in the first three months of pregnancy

50
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What did Hispanics do in WWII

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Skilled jobs

Established American identity

51
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Who was Cesar Chavez

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Founded farm workers association
Organized boycott of grapes in San Joaquin valley California
Helped improve wages and working conditions

52
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What was the farm workers association

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Fought for equal rights in education and employment

53
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Nixon’s domestic policy

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Increased school desegregation efforts
Ended draft
Looked to to fix economic crisis

54
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Nixon and the economy

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Vietnam war expensive
Inflation rising
Gas shortage prices increase
Nixon froze wages for 90 days with no success

55
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Nixon’s international policy

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Denounced America’s role as the anti-communist policeman

Interest shape commitments, not vice versa

56
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China 1972

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Nixon visits Beijing

Us recognizes China as a country

57
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Moon landing

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1969
Astronauts land on moon
Neil Armstrong

58
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1972 election

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Nixon wins 49 states

59
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Watergate scandal

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Burglars broke into watergate hotel
Investigation leads to Nixon denying involvement - not a crook
Tape recordings of meetings in the Oval Office not given to Supreme Court because of presidential privilege
Nixon hands over tapes and resigns

60
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What is the organization of petrol exporting countries about

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OPEC

Arab members increase price for western countries and caused shortage because of western aid to Israel

61
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What did ford do

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Pardoned Nixon
Wanted to heal the country
Witnessed Vietnam and Cambodia fall to communism

62
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Election of 1976

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Carter democrat versus ford republican
Lowest voter turn out
Carter wins 41 million to 39 million

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Carter’s actions

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Amnesty to draft dodgers

Camp David accords

64
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What is a draft dodger

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Young man who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam

65
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What were the camp David accords

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Brought Egypt and Israel together to arrange peace agreement
Israel gives back Sinai peninsula
Egypt recognizes Israel as sovereign nation

66
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WHO WAS AYATOLLAH ruhollah khomani

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Fundamentalist Muslim
Believed in militant Islamic values
Toppled government in Iran, exiled shah
Wanted to expel western influence

67
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What does Carter do in Iranian crisis

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Let’s former shah to undergo cancer treatment in America

68
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What does Iran do when Carter helps

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Mob storms embassy and captures 52 hostages
Carter sends failed mission in April 1980
Hostages released hours after Carter leaves office

69
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Family in the 70s

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Both parents work
Birth rates drop
Divorce rates rise

70
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Director of the 70s

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Spielberg

71
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Spielberg movies

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Jaws
Close encounters of the third kind
Raiders of the lost ark
ET

72
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Music

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Disco

Pop

73
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Disco

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Bee gees staying alive

74
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Pop

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Michael Jackson

Off the wall

75
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About space program

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Skylab is first us space station launched 1973

Us and Soviets collaborate on missions

76
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Computers

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Microprocessor invented 1971
Bill gates improves Altair 8800 1977 and founds Microsoft
Steve jobs and Stephen Wozniak found Apple as a smaller PC that revolutionized the computer industry

77
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1980 election

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Reagan republican versus Carter democrat

Republican wins

78
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Nickname for Reagan

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Great communicator

79
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About Reagan communicating

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Hollywood actor
Governor of California
Committed to conservatism
Government not solution to problem, it is the problem

80
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Defensive building

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Reagan increases military spending
Nuclear arms race
Development of strategic defensive initiative - Star Wars
Defensive satellites against nuclear missiles

81
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Reagonomics

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Supply side economics
Decreased taxes will spur economic growth
Deregulation of domestic markets
Cut taxes
Favored wealthy
82
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Iran contra affair

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US secretly sells weapons to Iran and sends money to contras fighting communism in government after congress forbode aid

83
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Who is held responsible for Iran contra

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Lieutenant colonel Oliver north

Reagan criticized for failure to manage White House officials

84
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Lebanon

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Consumed by war
Muslim versus Christian
Capital Beirut
241 Americans killed in suicide bombs at HQ

85
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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Scaled back military spending and imperial ambitions

Institutes economic policies of glastnost - openness

86
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Ending of war

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Berlin Wall comes down
Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall
Germany reunited 1990
Enemies of Gorbachev fail to seize power
Communists dissolve
Soviet republics declare independence
87
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What did LBJ say

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Reassured Americans he planned to continue kennedy’s policies

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