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United nations

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where the nations had idealistic goals for peace. they had the general assembly security council, and secretariat

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cold war

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period of tension between the U.S. and russia that flares into actual military conflict (hot war)

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iron curtain

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a line separating the communist from the free west

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containment

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keeping communism where it was and going no where else.

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truman doctrine

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aiding countries fighting communist takeover

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marshall plan

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helps restore the economy of western europe if they reject communism

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization: military alliance to defend themselves against soviet attack

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Warsaw pact

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communist countries military alliance to counter NATO

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Berlin airlift

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forced the soviet union to end the blockade. Airplanes went to Berlin to bring supplies to free germans, and kept doing it to bug the communist

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Chaing Kai Shek

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A civil war between China and the communist o Mao Zedong led Japan

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Korean war

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1950-1953. north communist korea VS. south free Keora never really ended

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38th parallel

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north and south Korea’s line of their own territory

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Douglas MacArthur

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Americas hero in the pacific during ww2 was in charge of the UN military forces

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Inchon

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a seaport halfway up the western cost of Korean that MacArthur launched an invasion on

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Limited war

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we didn’t want to start ww3 so we held a war with the limited objective shot and total victory over the enemy

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Peaceful coexistence

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won’t try to kill communism just put up and live with it.

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Ho Chi Minh

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started a guerilla war against france

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Domino theory

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one nation in South east asia falls to communism all will fall

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Fidel Castro

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Cuban dictator turned it communistic

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Bay of pigs

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double crossed cuban refugees who tried to kill Castro

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Cuban missile crisis

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close to starting a war because we tried to get rid of the missiles in Cuba

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Berlin wall

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a wall keeping their people in and us out

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fair deal

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truman tried to make sure everyone had a job

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Taft-Hartley Act

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permits states to allow the right to work law- being able to work without having to join a union

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national security act

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being ready in case of a surprise attack always

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red scare

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Citizens afraid of soviet communist takeover

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Alger Hiss

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gave secret paper to russia

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Joseph McCarthy`

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Said he had a list of people who were communist in the U.S. (lied) and had many innocent people arrested

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McCarthyism

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hunting out couminiest

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Adali Stenenson

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the democratic nominee against eisenhower

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dynamic conservation

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conservative with money and and liberal with people

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interstate highway system

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connected the US together. allowed the roads to be turned into airways

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new frontier

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Kennedys idealistic view for America

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Peace corp.

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skilled volunteers overseas to help underdeveloped nations

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The affluent society

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a very prosperous era

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baby boom

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after the war people had a lot ob babies

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civil rights movement

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starting to get rights for minorities

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Brown V. boe

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no more segregated schools

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Bus boycott

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civil rights people stopped taking the bus because of rosa parks

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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impactful leader of the civil rights movement

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March on washington

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many people gathered and heard the I have a dream speach

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great society

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Johnson trying to get rid of poverty and inequality and better themselves

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civil rights act of 1964

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ended a lot of racial injustices

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voting rights act of 1965

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outlawed literacy tests and set troops to help allow blacks to vote

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war on poverity

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through job training, job placement programs johnson would be able to get rid of poverty

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Barry goldwater

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went against Johnson in 1964 said what he wanted and didn’t care if people agreed or not

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medicare

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government health insurance

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Earl warren and the warren court

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chief justice who wanted judicial activism

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judicial activism

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interpreting the law and the constitution broadly in order to address what the judges perceive a major social problem

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gulf of tonkin resolution

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taking all necessary action to repel any armed attack against the US and to prevent further aggression

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vietnam war

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war between north and south vietnam

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viet cong

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pro communist vietnamese

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tet offensive

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attacked major cities in vietnam

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paris peace talks

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over 5 years of trying to attain peace

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urban riots

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uncontrolled riots and racial conflict - watts and detroit

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black power

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securing black rights many times with violence

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new left

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anti war group radical and sometimes terroristic. hoped to use the resentment of war to overthrow American institutions

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counter culture

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rebellion and rejection materialism morals and values of the previous generation

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silent majority

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the people nixon appealed to who were not violent radicals but who were discontent with the status quo

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busing

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getting the right # of different color students in schools even if they have to bus them a hour away

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new economic policy

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90 day freeze on wages and prices. established a regulation on all wages and prices and wages… then made it voluntary

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Detente

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a period of relaxation between 2 nations which the secretary of state Henry kissinger helped a lot with

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vietnamization

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reducing the American forces and letting the vietnamese take control

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William calley

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court martialed for killing many citizens in vietnam and took much blame but he killed mostly viet cong

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Kent state killings

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college students burnt down the ROTC building and officers shot 4 students

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pentagon papers

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stolen classified papers that embarrassed the country

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watergate affair

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burglars who were said to have come from higher up in the ranks

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Spiro Agnew

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vice prez for nixon who resigned

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nixon pardon

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Prez Ford gave a full pardon to nixon for everything he did while in office

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oil embargo

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the prohibiting the sale of oil to a country

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energy crisis

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a combination of higher prices for the shortages of america’s energy resources

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environmental movement

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growing concern for the effects of industrial development on the earth’s environment

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stagflation

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high inflation and high unemployment at the same time

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trade deficit

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imported more goods then exported

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women’s rights movements

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women took life into their own hands to get equality

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womens liberation movement

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radical extreme feminist

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roe v. wade

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abortion legal

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human rights

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protecting people from an oppressing government

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panama canal treaty

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jointly ran the canal with panama until 2000 when we gave it to them fully

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Camp david accords

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In return for Egypt’s recognition of Israel sovereignty and a guarantee of Peace Israel return to Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula

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shah of iran

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King… Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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ayatollah ruhollah khomeini

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Fanatical Islamic extremist it denounced everyone who was not as zealous as he is followers were

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iranian hostage crisis

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Iranians trying to get America to release hostages broadcasted footage of them burning American flags and Chanting anti-American slogans

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new right

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People who wanted to join conservatives who shared many believes of the traditionalists notably opposition to communism and belief in limited government

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religious right

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Various conservative Christian leaders and organizations concerned primarily with moral issues

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presidents 19- 40

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  1. Rutherford B. Hayes
  2. James A Garfield
  3. chester a arthur
  4. Grover Cleveland
  5. Benjamin Harrison
  6. Grover Cleveland
  7. William McKinley
  8. theodore roosevelt
  9. William Taft
  10. Woodrow Wilson
  11. Warren Harding
  12. Calvin Coolidge
  13. Herbert Hoover
  14. Franklin Roosevelt
  15. Harry truman
  16. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  17. John F. Kennedy
  18. Lyndon B. Johnson
  19. Richard Nixon
  20. Gerald Ford
  21. Jimmy Carter
  22. Ronald Reagan
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List and discuss four major factors that made the Vietnam War hard for the US to win

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First the war was not clear cut conflict between two separate nations
Second supplies for the communist forces from North Vietnam flowed not only across the north south border but also through the neighboring supposedly neutral countries of Cambodia and Laos
Third The government of South Vietnam although it was non-Communist was corrupt unstable and undemocratic the only thing good about it was it was better then the communists
Fourth Johnson was committed to the idea of limited defensive war he did not want to risk an out right war against North Vietnam because it could bring in the Soviet Union were Communist China and divert dollars for the great society at home

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Define the cold war and discuss the United States response to the spread of communism

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a period of tension and intense competition which only occasionally flared up into actual military conflict between the U.S. and the USSR. The U.S responded to the spread of communism by trying to contain it. they also tried the truman doctrine and the marshall plan

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Evaluate life in the post World War II America

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very prosperous era people could keep buying things like a house. more and more babies… baby boom, families changed more and more women started working changed what the traditional family looked like

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Discuss Lyndon Johnson’s great Society and then evaluate its effectiveness on our country’s history

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it was supposed to eliminate poverty and inequality it made the black more able to vote more freely. it allowed outlawed the poll tax. He also declared a war on that which he could not win poverty

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