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ruled the Soviet Union since 1928, died at the age of 73, his death led to a temporary thaw in Cold War tensions.
-Soviet premier in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his violent purges of internal political enemies and his suspicion of Western leaders, an ideology guided by two major German invasions into Russia.
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| Speaking in Fulton, Mo., Winston Churchill announces that "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent" of Europe. |
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-A speech by President Truman in March 1947 that set the course of U.S. foreign policy for the next generation, painting international affairs as a struggle between free democratic governments and tyrannical communist governments, and advocating American intervention to protect democratic governments.
- committed the United States to providing aid to countries resisting communist aggression or subversion and provided the first step toward what would become known as the Containment Policy.
-it made the United states struggle with the soviet go global (resist communism) |
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a policy that incorporates both military and economic action to prevent the spread of communism
-influenced by George Kennan (signed x) |
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author of The sources of soviet conduct" talked about containment "The X Article" -placed the cold war in a broad historical and philosophical perspective.
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plan to give financial aid to European countries. |
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leader of Chinese Communists proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China.
-leader of Chinese revolution |
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| anti-capitialist political and military leader of Zoth entury China memberof nationalist party, led to he National military council and becaome china's nominal leader became embroiled in a bloddy civil war with chinese communist party, promoted traditional chinese culture |
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| the pre-war border between North and South Korea. |
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-first secretary of communist party
-denounced Stalin and his policies at the 20th Communist Party conference. In early 1956 called for peaceful coexistence" between the East and West. |
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involved in passing of government documents
former state representative
-accused of providing documents to soviets, and was found guilty.
-accused of spying for the soviets |
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sent to the electric chair in 1953, along with her husband for the crime of atomic espionage
-guilty of having passed atomic secrets to Soviet agents. |
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general, became the youngest circuit court judge in Wisconsin history. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served as an intelligence officer in the South Pacific. In 1946, at the age of 38, he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
-speech on lincon day.
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impolse of american fear.
-act of making accusation of ppl that are false, with no evidence |
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-supreme commander of allied forced in Europe during world war II
-authorized the largest public works project in the history of the world. The president had been impressed by Hitler's autobahns and believed that a national system of highways was necessary to move troops and military equipment and to provide evacuation routes during national emergencies.
-promised to end involvement in Korea |
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| ominous bill that provided college education for world war II veterans. unemployment compensation, loans to buy homes and other aid for WWII veterans. |
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| time period after world war II that ppl had many children. |
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| first black major league baseball player. |
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American political scientist and first blak to win nobel peace prize
diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Palestine. |
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turned to the courts to prove that separate facilities for blacks and whites were inherently unequal. He won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court. In his biggest victory, Brown v. Board of Education (1954) of Topeka, Kansas, he persuaded a unanimous Supreme Court to rule that the "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional.
-lawyer for civil rights, chipped away at segregation laws |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) |
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Supreme Court decision of 1954 that overturned the "separate but equal doctrine" that justified Jim Crow laws.
-overturned Plessy v. Ferguson |
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| Conflict in 1957 when governor Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the racial integration of Little Rock's Central High School. After a crucial delay, President Eisenhower federalized the National Guard troops and sent in 1000 paratroopers to foster the school's integration. |
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| African-American seamstress and active NAACP member arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white patron in Montgomery, Alabama, prompting a huge bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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led bus boycotts
-served as the SCLC first presidents, AMerican clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African Ameican civil rights movement led the Montgomery bus boycott, led the march on washington, where he delivered "i have a dream he became one of the youngest to receive the nobel peace prize for his workds to end racial segregation adn racial discrimination he was assassinated on April 4, 1968. |
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| southern Christian Leadership conference (SCLC) |
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| American civil right organization consisting of black churchmen |
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| A form of nonviolent protest in which civil rights activists occupy seats in a segregated establishment. |
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| Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
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| In April, some 142 student sit-in leaders from 11 states met in Raleigh, North Carolina, and voted to set up a new group to coordinate the sit-ins. |
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| Civil rights activists who in 1961 demonstrated that despite a federal ban on segregated travel on interstate buses, segregation prevailed in parts of the South. |
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nickname for Birmingham Al.
-most violent town -had bombing of churches. |
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a much-expanded voter registration project for African Americans.
-it set schools, houses, and community centers throughout Mississippi for African Americans. |
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| the first march attempt from Selma to Montgomery,when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas. |
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| Landmark legislation that prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin in employment and public facilities such as hotels, restaurants, and playgrounds. It established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| This law prohibited literacy tests and sent federal examiners to the South to register voters. |
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On May 7, 1954, a ragtag army of 50,000 Vietnamese Communists defeated the remnants of an elite French force at a network of bases located here.
-location of battle between french and Vietnamese |
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| Geneva Conference of 1954 |
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-A peace treaty
-At the conference, the French and the Vietnamese agreed to divide Vietnam temporarily into a non-Communist South and a Communist North, pending re-unification following elections scheduled for 1956. |
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| Although a Catholic in a Buddhist nation and a leader with no popular charm, the American government manufactured Diem's 1956 election because of his anticommunist views. The American government gradually realized Diem's lack of popular support and stood by when he was assassinated in 1963. |
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-led the Vietnamese Nationalists.
-prime minister and president of north Vietnam, nickname uncle Ho, |
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| an elite special operations force in the U.S. Army. |
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| sending of more troops in Vietnam under prez. Johnson |
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| a malitia group in south Vietnam (communist), that fought against South Vietnamese gvmts and the US. Got all supplies from the north and later allied with the North. |
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| was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) ... |
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| Mississippi Freedom Democrats |
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| A Party with disfranchised black and white democrats from Mississippi |
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| As American military and political leaders suggested victory in Vietnam was in sight, North Vietnam launched an offensive in January 1968 against every major South Vietnamese target. |
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| phrase used by richard nixon in a speech to describe the Paris Peace Accord to end the Vietnam war |
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| withdrawing American troops and giving South Vietnam greater responsibility for fighting the war. His attempt to slow the flow of North Vietnamese soldiers and supplies into South Vietnam by sending American forces to destroy Communist supply bases in Cambodia in 1970 in violation of Cambodian neutrality provoked antiwar protests on the nation’s college campuses. |
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came within 230 votes of defeating Johnson in the New Hampshire primary.
-An aMerican politician poet and long time member of the US congress from Minnesota He served in the house of rep. and US senate in the 1968 prez election he was the first candidate to challenge incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson for the nomination for Pres of the runnung on an anti-vietnam war platform his unexpected voted he recieved led to Johnson dropping out and lured Kennedy to win. |
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Radical youth protest movement in the 1960's named by leader Tom Hayden to distinguish it from the old left of the 1930s
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the creation of a radically new democratic political movement in the United States that rejected hierarchy and bureaucracy. In its most important paragraphs, the document called for "participatory democracy"--direct individual involvement in the decisions that affected their lives. This notion would become the battle cry of the student movement of the 1960s--a movement that came to be known as the New Left
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| Student's for a Democratic Society (SDS) |
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Founded in Port Huron, Michigan in 1962, the radical organization aimed to rid American society of poverty, racism, and violence through an individually oriented approach called participatory democracy.
-organization of the new left
-group of students from University of Michigan b/c they liked politics. |
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| founded in 1964. at the university of California at Berkeley by student radicals protesting restrictions on their right to demonstrate. kids rally and protest until they win. |
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movement to try and end war in Vietnam.
-Rally around stopping the war. |
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| Nickname for members of the youth international party, an outlandish protest group which supported Nihilism, anarchy, and psychedelic drugs. |
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prominent liberal senator from minnesota, dedicated to promotion of Civil Rights. -
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In the 1968 election, republican claimed to have a plan to end the war in Vietnam, but, in fact, it took him five years to disengage the United States from Vietnam.
-involved with Watergate. He attempted to use political authority to rid his political appointments.
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| During the Democratic National Convention in 1968, the candidates go into Chicago and are met with angry protestors. Daley told police force to reak navoic and the beat everyone out of the streets. This fighting led into the building where the political convention was going on one candidate says that Daley needs to get control of his town Mayor says FU. on national TV the party starts to collapse. Richard Nixon is elected as their candidate and wins |
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| after violence struck the students the SDS tore itself apart. a group called the weathermen were a surviving fraction of SDS attempting to launch a guerrilla war in the streets of CHicago to tear pig city apart. This occured b/c members grew frustrated with the slow pace of social change |
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| site of 1968 anti-war rioting during which 4 students were killed by guardsmen, gaining national attention and sparking a larger debate over which side was in the right: the protesters or those attempting to keep the peace. |
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| Jackson state students were protesting the same issues as the kent state students until a rumor was spread that a mayor and his wife were killed. the students rioted white motorists called the Jackson Police DEpt claiming that a group of blacks threw rocks at them. the rioting students set fire to many things and the police contained them. They responded to the call saying the students had gun fire. Next the cops confronted the kids in front of the dorm and shot fire killing three students |
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| a security guard at the watergate office found taped locks leading into the offices of the democratic national committee inside was eavesdropping equipment the burglers were linked to the CIA and CREEP nixon hired the plumbers to perform criminal acts including phone tapping and burglary against those on the enemy list when Nixon ran for re-elect more dirty tricks accured they wanted to know the democratic campaign strategy. Now after jail time some of the burglers told the truth. It was told that Nixon had recorded tapes and he resigned. |
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| A Nixon white house team consisting of former CIA operatives paid for by illegal campaign contributions engaged in a wide spread of criminal acts against those on its enemies list |
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| former US military analyst who participated a national political contreversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon papers to the NY times and other newspapers |
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| VP who was accused of extorting payoffs from building contractors while he was Maryland's governor and a Baltimore country executive. signed a plea bargain and was succeeded by gerald ford. |
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| a washington Post reporter pieced together part of the story of the watergate scandal illuminating a path of the white house larger scandal |
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| a washington Post reporter pieced together part of the story of the watergate scandal illuminating a path of the white house larger scandal |
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| a former white house appointments secretary, informed the senate committee that a system of taping conversations and telephone calls was in place within the whitehouse |
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| US attorney general under Richard Nixon he was director of the CREEP which engineered the watergate first break in, he became the only US attorney general ever to be convcicted of illegal activities. |
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| committee for the reelection of the Pres, James MCCord was chief security coordinator this group authorized illegal activities during the wintergate senate |
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| VP at the time of Nixon's resignation and former House minority leader from Michigan served as unelected president from 1974-1976 and said that the watergate nightmare is over. |
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| businessman and art college was the vice president serving under Gerald Ford and the Gov of New York. but he did not join the 1976 Republican national ticket with Ford after failing to get the (R) Prez. nomination so he retired from politics. |
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| Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon of his crimes during his presidency. |
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| a acronym for Gerald Ford's plan on how to help the economy wear the buttons, saying "whip inflation now. |
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| President from 1976-1980, a southern democrat who upheld human rights and liberal reform but lost popularity for his inability to solve America's energy and economic crisis |
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| iranian students invaded the american embassy in Tehran and held American diplomats and others hostage for 444 days. To secure their freedom Jimmy Carter agreed in his last days in office to release $8billion in frozen iranian assets. hostages released on the day of Reagan's inauguration. |
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| organization of Pertroleum Exporting countries, founded by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to fight a reduction in prices by oil companies. |
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| period in 1978 and 1979 when oil priced doubled and quadroupled shows how vulnerable the nation had become to foreign producers...also a time when gas would run out |
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| genre of dance and music that peaked in the 70s |
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| confederation of desperate political and religious groups bound together by their concern over what they believed were the erosion of values in america |
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| a Hollywood actor who became governor of California and later served two prez terms , known for his personal charisma and his conservative economic and social views. |
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