Organizations Flashcards by B -

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American Red Cross founder

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Clara Barton

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19th Century English Socialist Society

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Fabian Society

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Animal protection group

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ASPCA

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Organization founded to aid political prisoners - 1961

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Amnesty International

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“Rainbow Warriors” organization

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Greenpeace

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Famine relief fund raiser

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Live Aid

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Organization founded by 33 scientists in 1888

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National Geographic Society

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Organization founded in Bogota in 1948

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OAS

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Location of NATO headquarters

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Brussels Belgium

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Defense organization founded April 4 - 1949

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NATO

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First Peace Corps director

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Sargent Shriver

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Organization that teaches economics to youth

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Junior Achievement

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International Red Cross founder

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Henry Dunant

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National youth service created in 1993

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Americorps

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National Organization for Women founder

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Betty Friedan

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John Birch Society founder

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Robert Welch

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Hull House founder

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Jane Adams

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Planned Parenthood founder

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Margaret Sanger

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March of Dimes founder

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Franklin Roosevelt

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Sierra club founder

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John Muir

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Salvation army Founder

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William Booth

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Girl Scouts Founder

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Juliette Low

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Boy Scouts Founder

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Lord Baden-Powell

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League of Women Voters Founder

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Carrie Chapman Catt

Special Olympics founder

Eunice Shriver

League founded in 1910 to help blacks migrate

Urban League

AFL-CIO leader following Meany

Joseph Lane Kirkland

AFL-CIO leader - 1955-79

George Meany

AFL founder

Samuel Gompers

Teamsters president - 1991

Ron Carey

Teamsters leader - 1957-71

Jimmy Riddle Hoffa

Detroit-based union

United Auto Workers

United Farm Workers founder

Cesar Chavez

United Mine Workers leader (1920-60)

John L. Lewis

American Railway Union founder - 1893

Eugen Debs

19th century female union leader

Mother Jones

Group that teaches employment skills to youth

Job Corps

Organization trying to unite Africa

Pan Africa

Railroad car manufacturer's strike - 1894

Pullman strike

Organization established for overseas veterans

VFW

America's largest veteran's organization

American Legion

George Bernard Shaw' socialist society

Fabian Society

Western European organization established to promote free trade - 1957

EEC

Cartel founded in Baghdad in 1960

OPEC

Location of Interpol HQ

Paris

United Nation's children's aid organization

UNICEF

Organization founded by Carolyn Scott Harrison

DAR

Civil Rights organization founded in 1909

NAACP

"We do by learning" organization

4H

Largest teachers' union

United Federation of Teachers