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| policy of giving into Hitler's demands |
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| rise of dictator, Japan's taking of China |
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| killing of 6 million Jews via concentration camps and tortue and executions |
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Dec 7, 1941
-japanese attack US base killing lots. makes US Very mad |
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| Japense fortress on small island |
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"lightning war"
uses peed and suprise to gain territory |
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| Gerneral who organized D-Day |
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Jun 6, 1944
allies left Englad to Envade Northern French Coast |
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| we pushed the germans back |
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| America will help any country resist communism |
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| America tries to help rebuild Europe |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| we heled S Korea fight N Korea against communist, lost land but then gaint it back. We didn't win, but we didn't loose either. Border stayed at 38th paralell |
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| chruchill's "iron curtain speech" |
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| said europe was divided by an iron curtain |
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| societs angry US kept atomic bomb secret, tentions b/t US and soviets |
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| willing to go to the brink of war to stand up to soviets |
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| America tries to stop the spred of communism |
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| used red scare for political advancement "McCarthyism" - accusing ppl with no evidence |
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| paid tuition for sevicemen to get a college degree |
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| towns outside cities full of conformity; pple buying looots of stuff |
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| babies born after soldiers returned home |
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| rock-n-roll - criticisms and importance |
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| not so conservative, suggestive, way for teenagers to rebel and express themselves |
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| automobile and its effects |
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| showed statis and "american dream", teenagers could express themselves, highways created |
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| didn't give up her seat on the bus, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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| 9 Students went to integrated school, faced big resistance |
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| leader of the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadersip COnfrence) and civil rights movement |
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| Brown vs. board of education |
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| desegregated scheools, started civil rights movement |
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| black and whites rode interstate busses to south, used opposite bathrooms, ect.; were beaten and thrown in jail, gained attention |
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| outlawed segregation in schools, employment and public places (ended Jim crow laws) |
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| charismatic leader of Nation of Islam |
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| govt said employment places had to employ a certain number of blacks |
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| SNCC (Student Nonviolent Card Committee) Violent, black panther, democratic |
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| televised, Nixon vs Kennedy, Nixon disheveled, kennedy looks sharp, Kennedy won |
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| USA sent Cuban exiles to attack Cuba; failed misserably |
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| Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs and their importance |
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Economic Opportunity Act- $1 billion for youth programs
Medicare, HUD(dept of housing), pbs, dept of transportation, civil voting rights acts,clean air and water acts, immigration act of 1965
--lowered poverty, ensured equality, helped many, america becomes optimistic |
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| russia puts nukes in cuba, scares the crap out of USA, negotioat, they remove them |
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| John Kennedy, his importance and his assassination |
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-young, has family, rich, intelligent, has a good personality
-handled Cuban missle crisis
-assass:conspiricies |
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| North Vietnamese suprise atack |
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| gave president a blank check to call war at any time |
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| proved govt had lied to America about war |
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| S.V. citizens on N.V. side. Soooooo frustraiting for soldiers |
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| leader of the feminist movement |
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| restricted presidents power on war |
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| National Organization of Woment (NOW) |
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| fought agains police brutality |
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| nuclear reactor overheated and seeped low level radiation to surrounding area |
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| easing cold war tensions by playing soviets and chinese off on each other |
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| Jimmy Carter's success and failures |
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success- camp David Accords (1st peace agreement b/t Egypt and Ireal)
Failures- economy. inflation rose 14%, gas prices skyrocket, iran hostage crisis |
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| Iran leader overthrown, flees to USA, rebells mad, captures 52 from USA embassy, didnt release them for 444 days |
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| Richard Nixon's successes and failures |
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success-detente, SALT 1 Treaty (limited missles and subs)
failures- watergate, stagflation (high unemployment and high inflation due to deficit spending and dependence on oil) |
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| rolald reagan and reaganomics |
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| republican preident whos economic plan was to use less govt, cut taxes and increase defense spending |
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| initiative uses lasers to shoot nukes out of space |
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persian golf war
-iraq invaded kuwait in Aug, 1990 to pay dept from war in Iran
-succeded military, failed to remove saddam hussein
-americans happy |
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| first woman of the supreme court |
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| led operation desert storm |
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