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a american feminst activist
co-founder of the national organization for women (NOW) |
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African american Civil rights activist " mother of the modern day Civil Rights movemnt
after a hard days of work she board a bus and sat in the colored section, and a white man told her to get up and she did so they arrested her, and this is what started the bus boycott |
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| first woman to hold a cabinet postion, roosevdelt apponted her as the seceratary of the department of labor |
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sec of state inder Nixon
wanted a new international order, wanted a multi-polar balance of power between all nations
helped cool off the US/ soviet
and china open door policy |
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frist african american to serve on the supreme court
he was the lawyer for the case of brown V. board of education |
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summers would go to Mississippi and help get blacks registered to vote
leader of bereklys freedom of speech movement |
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american domestic terrorist
had a part in the oklahoma city bombings |
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| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
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| American citizens and Communist Party members who were thrust into the world spotlight when they were tried, convicted, and executed for spying for the Soviet Union |
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became president becuase of the Death of FDR
chose to drop the A-bomb to end the war
when stalin closes Berlin truman airlifts supplies there in Operation Vittles |
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| first African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947 |
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a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin
McCarthyism was coined to specifically describe the intense anti-Communist movement that existed in America
1950 speech to the press which said he had a list of 200 names of communist who were working in the state department |
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President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office
opposed americans in the league of nations, enemy of progressive gains and firend of big business |
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socialist in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement
In 1925, Randolph organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This was the first serious effort to form a labor union for the employees of the Pullman Company, which was a major employer of African Americans |
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senater of Lousiana, share the wealth programs,wanted to distrubute all of the money from people with 5 million dollars or more to poorer people
was assassinated |
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small town in vietnam, there was a battle there between viet Minh and france,
The battle is significant in that it ended major French involvement in Indochina, and led to the accords which partitioned Vietnam into North and South |
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June 6, 1944 — the day on which "Operation Overlord" began — commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II
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| the reserves were still under the jurisdiction of Edwin C. Denby, the Secretary of the Navy. Denby was easily convinced by Albert Fall to give jurisdiction over the reserves to Fall's department. Fall then legally leased the rights to the oil to Harry F. Sinclair of Sinclair Oil without competitive bidding. Contrary to popular belief, this manner of leasing was legal under the General Leasing Act of 1920. Concurrently, Fall also leased the Naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, California to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum in exchange for personal loans at no interest. In return for leasing these oil fields to the respective oil magnates, Fall received gifts from the oilmen totaling about $404,000. It was this money changing hands that was illegal--not the leasing |
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| The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations[1] led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations in order to liberate Kuwait. |
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The Sputnik program was a series of unmanned space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s to demonstrate the viability of artificial satellites.
Sputnik also led to the creation of NASA |
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in an American court case that tested a law passed on March 13, 1925, which forbade the teaching, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals". This is often interpreted as meaning that the law forbade the teaching of any aspect of the theory of evolution. It has often been called the "Scopes Monkey Trial".
william jennings bryant was the proscuter |
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series of operational offensives during the Vietnam War, coordinated between battalion strength elements of the "Viet Cong" and divisional strength elements of the North Vietnam's People's Army of Vietnam against South Vietnam's Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), and United States military
resulted in a crushing operational defeat for the North Vietnames |
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| the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep water naval base: headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941 that brought the United States into World War II. |
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| The war began between Germany and the Allies, with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 |
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| The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks upon the United States of America carried out on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in which a total of nineteen hijackers simultaneously took control of four U.S. domestic commercial airliners. The hijackers crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City |
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The U.S. presidential election of 1948 is best known as one of the greatest political upsets in history, as incumbent President Harry S Truman defeated Republican Thomas Dewey against the predictions of most contemporary polls and in spite of a three-way split in his own Democratic party.
The Chicago Tribune had gone so far as to print “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN” on election night as its headline for the following day |
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| in 1972 Nixon ges to china to open them to the USA and establishes a mission there |
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US ships and U2 planes see nuclear missle silos in cuba
lasted for 13 days intel leader of USSR said he would dismatle them
regarded as the one moment when the Cold War came closest to escalating into a nuclear war |
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| 1943, sailors beat up mexicans for 2 days |
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| Nixon sends FBI and cuban nationals to break into the democratic building to see if he was going to lose |
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| loyalty programs for unions and Gov workers |
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wartime meeting from February 4 to 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. The delegations were headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin,
There was agreement that the priority was the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany |
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| It is the site of the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion during John F. Kennedy's presidency - a 1961 US-backed invasion by Cuban exiles intent on overthrowing Fidel Castro. |
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naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, fought in the seas around the island of Leyte in the Philippines
The Japanese intended to repel or destroy the Allied invasion of Leyte. Instead, the Allied navies inflicted a major defeat on the outnumbered Imperial Japanese Navy which took away Japan's strategic force in the Pacific War. |
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The German Armed Forces had intended to split the Allied line in half, capturing Antwerp and then proceeding to sweep north to encircle and destroy four Allied armies, thus as Hitler believed, forcing the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis' favour.
ultimately unsuccessful, |
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| southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually became a metaphor for all high tech businesses in the area. |
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a Japanese American internment camp during World War II that operated near Independence, California
On December 6, 1942, there was a riot and sentries shot two detainees. |
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sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal
Prohibition was accomplished by means of the Eighteenth Amendment to the national Constitution (ratified January 16, 1919) and the Volstead Ac |
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| relief revocery and reform |
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| United States was prepared to send any money, equipment, or military force to countries that were threatened by the communist government, thereby offering assistance to those countries resisting communism |
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| officially following its enactment as the European Recovery Program (ERP), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe after World War II. |
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| The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, a.k.a. the Court-packing Bill, was a proposal in 1937 by United States President Franklin Roosevelt for power to appoint an extra Supreme Court Justice for every sitting Justice over the age of 70 and six months. This was proposed in response to the Supreme Court overturning several of his New Deal measures that proponents claim were designed to help the United States recover from the Great Depression. |
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| the economic policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. Reagan assumed office during a period of high inflation and unemployment, which had largely abated by the time he left office. |
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| international organization that describes itself as a "global association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity." It was founded in 1945 by 51 states, replacing The League of Nations. |
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the government had deliberately expanded its role in the war by conducting air strikes over Laos, raids along the coast of North Vietnam, and offensive actions taken by U.S. Marines well before the American public was told that such actions were necessary. All of this had happened while president Lyndon Johnson had been promising not to expand the war
Daniel Elysberg gave the press the papers |
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| lend or lease any goods that england or any counry needed to go to war |
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| ended segragation, thurgood Marshall was the lawyer for this case |
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| military organization of Central and Eastern European Communist states. It was established in 1955 to counter the perceived threat from the NATO alliance |
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| international organisation1 for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. |
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| Gulf of tonkin resolution |
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| launched retaliatory strikes and went on national television on August 4, 1964. Although the USS Maddox (DD-731) had been involved in providing intelligence support for South Vietnamese attacks at Hon Me and Hon Ngu, Johnson's Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, went before Congress and denied that the United States Navy was supporting South Vietnamese military operations. He thus characterized the attack as "unprovoked." He also claimed before Congress that there was "unequivocable proof" of an "unprovoked" second attack against the Maddox. |
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| severely restricts the activities and power of labor unions in the United States |
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| severely restricts the activities and power of labor unions in the United States |
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| signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. Sadat also said he wanted them to be called the Carter Accords. |
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| The Atlantic Charter established a vision for a post-World War II world, despite the fact the United States had yet to enter the war |
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The Atlantic Charter established a vision for a post-World War II world, despite the fact the United States had yet to enter the war
no territorial gains sought by the United States or the United Kingdom;
territorial adjustments must be in accord with wishes of the people;
the right to self-determination of peoples;
trade barriers lowered;
global economic cooperation and advancement of social welfare;
freedom from want and fear;
freedom of the seas;
disarmament of aggressor nations, postwar common disarmament |
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| G. I. Bill of Rights or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as GIs or G. I.s) as well as one-year of unemployment compensation. It also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses. |
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| Federal highway act of 1956 |
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| $25 billion for the construction of more than 40,000 miles of interstate highways over a ten-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history to that point |
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1927 first talking movie was the jazz singer
Douglas Fairbanks-first action hero |
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| Anti-immigrant, black catholic jewish, centered in bible belt |
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| a New Deal government agency that provided jobs to unemployed people from 1935 to 1943 to mitigate the effects of the Great Depression |
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was one of the primary institutions of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
SNCC played a leading role in the Freedom Rides, |
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| name colloquially used to refer to the effort during World War II to develop the first nuclear weapons by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada, and other European physicists. Formally it refers to the period of the project from 1942-1946 which was under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED). |
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| drug users, and people of that sorts |
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| Kennedy's New Frontier domestic program was ambitious, promising federal funding for education, medical care for the elderly, and government intervention to halt the recession. Kennedy also promised an end to racial discrimination. The New Frontier program proved impossible to complete, however, due to the reluctance of a conservative Congress |
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