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Favoring native born Americans and opposing immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act |
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Avoid American involvement in European wars
Weapons embargo on warring countries |
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Failed to provide relief for Americans during Great Depression
Hoovervilles/Shanty Towns |
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Stock Market Crash- Americans buying stocks on margin
Ends with the conclusion of WWII
Unequal distribution of wealth |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) |
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The New Deal
Court Packing to gain support for New Deal plans
Declared war on Japan after attack on Pearl Harbor |
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increased size and power of government and involved the social and economic life of the people
Federal government directly assisted Americans- (example-Social Security)
Provided relief, but did not cure the Depression
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Started for U.S. with Pearl Harbor attack
Caused by economic hardships left over from treaty of Versailles
Hiroshima and Atomic Bomb controversy |
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| Korematsu v. United States |
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removal of Japanese Americans from their homes after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
civil liberties may be limited
Internment camps- west coast |
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Manhattan Project
Nuclear Weapon |
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| Free education for veterans |
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rebuild the economies of European nations after WWII |
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A war of words between Soviet Union and USA on political philosophy and economic systems
Arms Race/ Space Race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Fall of the Berlin Wall ends |
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Resulted from claims that communists had infiltrated the federal government
fear of communist influence in the United States |
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develop military alliances around the world |
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Send aid to countries to keep communism out
Containment |
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President Harry S. Truman |
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Authorized dropping Atomic Bomb on Japan
Containment |
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Stop spread of Communism
Vietnam/Korean Wars |
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President Dwight Eisenhower |
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| Sent federal troops to Little Rock AR to enforce Brown v. Board |
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Rights for Black citizens
Martin Luther King Jr.
Brown v. Board of Education 1954 |
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Know your rights as an accused
Right to a lawyer
Right to remain silent |
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President John F. Kennedy |
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Assassinated
Containment- Vietnam War |
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Containment of communism
North and South Vietnam become communist
Controversial war |
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| Chief Justice Earl Warren |
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increased the rights of individuals |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) |
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“Great Society”
Government should increase involvement to improve people’s lives
Wanted to end poverty in the United States |
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Watergate
Détente Foreign Policy (better relations with soviet union)
United States v. Nixon (supreme court case) |
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Trickle Down Economics
Lower taxes |
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Impeached but not convicted
Similar to Andrew Johnson (impeached but not convicted) |
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Judicial Review
Federal Courts the power to decide whether a law is constitutional |
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regulate interstate commerce |
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