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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
being ready in case of a surprise attack always
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red scare
Citizens afraid of soviet communist takeover
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Alger Hiss
gave secret paper to russia
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Joseph McCarthy`
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
hunting out couminiest
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Adali Stenenson
the democratic nominee against eisenhower
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dynamic conservation
conservative with money and and liberal with people
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interstate highway system
connected the US together. allowed the roads to be turned into airways
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new frontier
Kennedys idealistic view for America
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Peace corp.
skilled volunteers overseas to help underdeveloped nations
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The affluent society
a very prosperous era
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baby boom
after the war people had a lot ob babies
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civil rights movement
starting to get rights for minorities
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Brown V. boe
no more segregated schools
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Bus boycott
civil rights people stopped taking the bus because of rosa parks
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Martin Luther King Jr.
impactful leader of the civil rights movement
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March on washington
many people gathered and heard the I have a dream speach
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great society
Johnson trying to get rid of poverty and inequality and better themselves
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civil rights act of 1964
ended a lot of racial injustices
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voting rights act of 1965
outlawed literacy tests and set troops to help allow blacks to vote
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war on poverity
through job training, job placement programs johnson would be able to get rid of poverty
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Barry goldwater
went against Johnson in 1964 said what he wanted and didn't care if people agreed or not
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medicare
government health insurance
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Earl warren and the warren court
chief justice who wanted judicial activism
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judicial activism
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
taking all necessary action to repel any armed attack against the US and to prevent further aggression
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vietnam war
war between north and south vietnam
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viet cong
pro communist vietnamese
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tet offensive
attacked major cities in vietnam
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paris peace talks
over 5 years of trying to attain peace
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urban riots
uncontrolled riots and racial conflict - watts and detroit
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black power
securing black rights many times with violence
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new left
anti war group radical and sometimes terroristic. hoped to use the resentment of war to overthrow American institutions
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counter culture
rebellion and rejection materialism morals and values of the previous generation
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silent majority
the people nixon appealed to who were not violent radicals but who were discontent with the status quo
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busing
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
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
a period of relaxation between 2 nations which the secretary of state Henry kissinger helped a lot with
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vietnamization
reducing the American forces and letting the vietnamese take control
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William calley
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
college students burnt down the ROTC building and officers shot 4 students
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pentagon papers
stolen classified papers that embarrassed the country
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watergate affair
burglars who were said to have come from higher up in the ranks
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Spiro Agnew
vice prez for nixon who resigned
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nixon pardon
Prez Ford gave a full pardon to nixon for everything he did while in office
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oil embargo
the prohibiting the sale of oil to a country
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energy crisis
a combination of higher prices for the shortages of america's energy resources
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environmental movement
growing concern for the effects of industrial development on the earth's environment
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stagflation
high inflation and high unemployment at the same time
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trade deficit
imported more goods then exported
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women's rights movements
women took life into their own hands to get equality
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womens liberation movement
radical extreme feminist
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roe v. wade
abortion legal
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human rights
protecting people from an oppressing government
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panama canal treaty
jointly ran the canal with panama until 2000 when we gave it to them fully
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Camp david accords
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
King... Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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ayatollah ruhollah khomeini
Fanatical Islamic extremist it denounced everyone who was not as zealous as he is followers were
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iranian hostage crisis
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
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
Various conservative Christian leaders and organizations concerned primarily with moral issues
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presidents 19- 40
19. Rutherford B. Hayes 20. James A Garfield 21. chester a arthur 22. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison 24. Grover Cleveland 25. William McKinley 26. theodore roosevelt 27. William Taft 28. Woodrow Wilson 29. Warren Harding 30. Calvin Coolidge 31. Herbert Hoover 32. Franklin Roosevelt 33. Harry truman 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 35. John F. Kennedy 36. Lyndon B. Johnson 37. Richard Nixon 38. Gerald Ford 39. Jimmy Carter 40. Ronald Reagan
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List and discuss four major factors that made the Vietnam War hard for the US to win
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
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
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
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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