Terms

Question 0

All deliberate speed

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Brown V. Board of education, Chief Justice Earl Warren adopted Justice Felix Frankfurter’s suggestion to use a phrase associated with the revered Oliver Wendell Holmes, “with all deliberate speed.” Shortly after Warren retired from the Court he acknowledged that “all deliberate speed” was chosen as a benchmark because “there were so many blocks preventing an immediate solution of the thing in reality that the best we could look for would be a progression of action.”

Question 1

Assessment

Answer 1

A neutral word and concept before the war or to bring to a state of peace or an agreement pg 22

Question 2

All deliberate spedd

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They ordered the desegregation of schools they prolonged the process because they didn’t specify the speed, many dragged their feet moved very slowly out never set a timeline

Question 3

American Dream

Answer 3

In the definition of the American Dream by James in 1931, “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

Question 4

Arms race

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Race between military power and rival

Question 5

Battle of Seattle

Answer 5

First real terrorist act from an American to his people at a college campus he killed 43 people in Seattle. 1999.

Question 6

Bretton Woods

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Delegates began by pledging themselves to freer trade: not yet to free trade, which might jolt many economies excessively, but to a series of steps in that direction. The commitment to freer trade eventually took the form of the general agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, which in rounds of negotiations over the following decades progressively reduced tariffs and other barriers to trade. this meeting also established the Bank of Reconstruction and development (world bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Question 7

Brown V. Board of Education

Answer 7

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The federal government had just outlawed school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, signaling to activist that it would not support Alabama’s segregation laws. The Supreme Court decision legitimized civil rights demands and emboldened activist to challenge state laws.

Question 8

Color Line

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The term color line was originally used as a reference to the racial segregation that existed in the United States after the abolition of slavery.

Question 9

Contract with America

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Gringrich nationalized the 1994 election by writing a playbook for republicans across the country to use. Stated in constructive and forthright fashion what the house republicans would do if voters gave them a majority.

Question 10

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

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Homosexuals couldn’t be involved in the army. It was a law where they couldn’t ask someone if they were gay.

Question 11

Fat Man

Answer 11

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A bomb (see little boy) As Tokyo continued to refuse to surrender, another American warplane dropped a second bomb – the fat man- on Nagasaki on August 9th. The destruction was comparable to that at Hiroshima.

Question 11

FHA

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Federal housing administration they build low income housing loans for construction of houses

Question 12

GI Bill

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Congress passed the GI bill, which would provide funding for the soldiers return to the ivy-covered walls. It provided funding for soldiers to go back to school. The GI bill also underwrote home mortgages for veterans after the war.

Question 14

IMF

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International Monetary Fund, established to stabilize exchange rates and currency flow.

Question 15

Greatest Generation

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The generation that fought in WWII they protected freedom

Question 16

Isolationism

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By 1944 isolationism was a spent force in American politics, and the American economy had so surpasses the economies of all other countries that such internationalist staples as free trade could only redound to America’s benefit.

Question 17

Internationalism

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Roosevelt attempted to institutionalize the new American thinking in a series of meetings during the last year of the war. At that time Roosevelt was not fully convinced that institutionalism held the key to American economic recovery, and he was convinced that internationalism posed a threat to his reelection chances. Internationalism was the key to American economic recovery. Trading with other countries and involving ourselves in their issues

Question 18

Little boy

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A bomb called “little boy” to distinguished from another design in the small American arsenal, “ Fat Man” – was released from the Enola Gay. It fell for nearly a minute before detonating at 2,000 feet, an altitude chose to maximize the effect of the blast.

Question 19

New Deal Reforms

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predominantly social security helped cushion some americans. But this still wasn’t believed to be the ultimate solution to depression. many were opposed during Roosevelt’s second term.

Question 22

Welfare state

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Has not provide enough lifeboats (services) to those who need medical care, childcare, or income support.

Question 23

Willow Run

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Built by Ford Motor Company for the federal government. The willow run plant sprawled across hundreds of acres. It constructed B-24 bombers

Question 24

Separate but equal

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Separate schools between the races ended with the brown ve board of edu

Question 25

Timothy McVeigh

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Terrorist attacked the federal building with a bomb killing many people he was a radical, anti government hostility, angry at the government

Question 26

Levittown

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All houses looked the same quick housing they were segregated

Question 28

The buck stops here

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Henry Truman. I take the responsibility of what happens

Question 29

Safety Net

Answer 29

Series official programs That provide support when reaching retirement