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Highway Act
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Eisenhower was responsible for passing this act based on german auto bond
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Khrushchev
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had this built escalating cold war tensions , berlin wall
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Rosa Parks
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started the bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama
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Brown v Board
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This court case said that Separate was not equal
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Little rock
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Secondary desegregation was first revealed in this city
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Woodstock
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The anger over the war was most known by this large event
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Great Society
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President Johnsons domestic reforms were dubbed this
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Closest US ever came to war with Soviet Union
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Truman Doctrine
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Greece and Turkey were saved from Communism because of this
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A. Philip Randolph
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Leader of brotherhood of sleeping car porters, This man cancelled march on washington
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Jimmy Carter
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Peanut farmer from rural GA was elected president
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Gerald Ford
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Only man to be president without being elected
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Watergate
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Nixon resigned because he knew of a burglary here
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Eisenhower
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first to send troops to vietnam
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Authrine Lucy
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Attempted to desegregate University of Alabama
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Rosenbergs
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After WWII this couple was killed for spying
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Tet Offensive
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turning point in the war
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Gulf of Tonkin
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Gave blank check to go to war
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Hochi Minh
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Leader of N VIetnam
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Desegregated Military
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This President Trumans decision almost cost him the election
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McCarthy
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Wisconsin senator brought ppl to congress to falsely accuse them of being communist.
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Title 9
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Nixon was responsible for this gave equal opportunity to women's sports
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China
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President succèss was when he started his relations with china
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Black Panthers
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Militant civil organization formed in 1966 Oakland, CA
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Stonewall Inn
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Gay Rights movement started when police raided this bar
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Goldwater
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Election of 1964 could've reversed civil rights if this man was elected
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Evil Empire
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Reagan referred to Soviet Union as this.
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Strom Thurman
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1948 Dixie Crat elected this Republican
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Rachel Carson
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Wrote Silent Spring
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George Kennedy
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Concept of containment was created by this man
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James Meridith
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He tries to desegregate University of Mississippi
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Voting Rights act of 1965
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Bans literacy tests
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Betty Freidan
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Wrote Feminist must speak
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Martin Luther King
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This man lead the Montgomery Boycott and gave the I have a dream speech
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Bay of Pigs
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14,000 Cubans invaded Cuba and overthrew Fidel Castro
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Levittown
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3 bed room 2 Bath
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Baby Boom
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Soldiers came home and had children
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Holocaust
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Mass murder of 6,000 Jews.
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Rosie the Riveter
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Commonly used as a symbol of feminism. She represented women who worked in factories.
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Pearl Harbor
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Japanese bombing of US naval base in Hawaii
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Stokely Carmichael
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Hippies
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People who rejected conventional values while doing drugs
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Silent Majority
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Those who didn't participate
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Henry Wallace
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Little Rock 9
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During this even a school tried to desegregate and the Governor called in the National Gaurd
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Alger Hiss
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high ranking american official convicted of lying about his association with a Communist.
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Hollywood Ten
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These writers would not remove communist activity from their films
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Japanese Internment Camps
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Japanese US citizens were placed in these for fear of spying on US
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Joseph Stalin
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Dictator of the Soviet Union
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Adolph Hitler
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Leader of the German Nazis
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Appeasement
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France and Great Britain allowing German aggression This is called
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Manchuria
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Japanese invaded this place
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Washington Naval Conference
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Women in the 1950's
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In this decade women were seen as domestic and motherly
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Containment Doctrine
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Truman adopted George Kennan's cold war strategy named this
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Marshall Plan
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Provided financial aid to rebuild Europe's economy
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1968 Election
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This election involved Richard Nixon, George Wallace, & Hubert Humphrey
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Roe v. Wade
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This court case struck down 46 laws that restricted abortion
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Environment Protection Agency
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Nixon established this organization who's first act was banning DDT
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Non-Violence
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This civil rights movement involved not putting harm on others no matter what.
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Sit-Ins
Definition
form of protest where people occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
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