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EC history set 2
EC history set 2
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History
Undergraduate 2
06/02/2010

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Term
Scopes Trial
Definition

1925

  • biology teacher put on trial b/c he taught evolution and was found guilty
  • lawyer was Clarence Darrow who defended Scopes and Bryon assisted persecution
Term
Immigration Restriction
Definition

1986

  • all immigrants from Asia were banned
  • fewer that 4% immigrants were allowed from Italy
  • 1917-1st immigration law:required literacy tests and banned radicals
Term
Silent Spring
Definition

1962

  • Rachel Carson
  • DDT and its effects on the environment (ex. weaker bird eggs)
  • Environmental movement
Term
Watergate
Definition

1972

  • failed burglary attempt at Democratic party HQ
  • President Nixon resigned in 1974 after Watergate scandals
Term
Red Scare and Palmer Raids
Definition

1919-1920

  • anti-communism
  • "Palmer Raids" named after Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
  • about 6,000 deportation of people suspected of "subversive" activities
Term
Operation Desert Storm
Definition

1991

  • US-led multi-country military engagement that drove Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army out of Kuwait
  • helped undo "Vietnam Syndrome"

(exaggerated preference for a policy which precludes the use of U.S. military forces overseas unless in overwhelming numbers, with unambiguous public and Congressional support, and with an assurance of a quick victory.)

Term
D-Day
Definition

1944

  • military operation led by American forces in Normandy
  • liberation of France
  • brought on the final phases of WWII in Europe
Term
Cuban Missile Crisis
Definition

1962

  • standoff between JFKennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev over Soviet plans to install nuclear weapons in Cuba
  • US wins
Term
Bonus Army
Definition

1932

  • 20,000 veterans marched to Washington, DC to demand immediate payment of bonuses earned during WWI
Term

Brown vs Board of Education

 

(of Topeka, Kansas)

Definition

1954

  • overturned Plessy vs Ferguson
  • abolished racial segregation in public schools
Term
1968
Definition

1968

  • LBJohnson delivers the State of the Union Address
  • Tet Offensive
  • Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out
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