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31st President of the United States (1929–1933)
Hoovervilles,
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act |
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| a United States Army infantryman, WWI |
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| an American jazz trumpeter and singer during the 20s |
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a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II
led the United Nations Command forces defending South Korea against the North Korean invasion from 1950 to 1951
removed for publicly disagreeing with Truman's Korean War Policy |
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created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934
A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies.
advocated federal spending on public works, public education, old-age pensions and other social programs |
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Italian-born laborers and anarchists who were tried, wrongly convicted and executed via electrocution on August 23, 1927
Due to red scare |
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the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights.
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the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As the 34th vice president, he succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died less than three months after he began his fourth term.
desegregation of the U.S. armed forces
decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan, the founding of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the Truman Doctrine to contain communism |
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became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government
inability to substantiate his claims led him to be discredited and censured by the United States Senate |
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a zealous opponent of anarchist communists, insurrectionary anarchists, and other radicals who advocated revolution and/or the violent overthrow of the Federal government
at least 10,000 individuals were arrested.
First Red Scare. These were a series of police roundups, warrantless wiretaps (authorized under the Sedition Act), and mass arrests |
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the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961
oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System |
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| candidate of the Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election |
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| an American singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis |
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