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| Series of laws passed in the United States in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that was to lead to the Second World War. |
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| Foremost pressure group against American entry into the Second World War, and was established 4 September 1940 |
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| United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 |
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| United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 |
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| Program of the United States during World War II that allowed the United States to provide the Allied Powers with war matériel without becoming directly involved in the war. |
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| The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941 that brought the United States into World War II |
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| First peace-time draft in United States history. The government selected men through a lottery system. If drafted, a man served for twelve months. |
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| Form of trade in which goods are sold from a wholesale warehouse operated either on a self-service basis, or on the basis of samples. |
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| Established a vision for a post-World War II world, despite the fact the United States had yet to enter the War. The participants hoped in vain that the Soviet Union, since June invaded by her previous ally Nazi Germany, would adhere as well. |
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| The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the United States of America. It rationed such things as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics. It was dissolved shortly after the defeat of Japan in 1945. |
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| purpose was to arbitrate disputes between workers and employers. |
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| Was the commander of the Japanese Navy for the first four years of World War II. He is generally regarded to be Japan's greatest naval strategist of the war, and among the greatest naval strategists in history. |
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| early May 1942, was one of the major turning points of the Pacific War. It was the first battle in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, and the first naval battle in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon each other. |
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| One of the most important battles of World War II. The assault on the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal by the Allied navies and 16,000 United States troops on 7 August 1942, was the first offensive by US land forces in the Pacific Campaign |
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| Remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in occupied France. |
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| Remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in occupied France. |
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| A war crime involving the forcible transfer of prisoners of war, with wide-ranging abuse and high fatalities, by Japanese forces in the Philippines, in 1942, during World War II. |
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| The first carrier-based air raid by the United States on the Japanese mainland in World War II. the only operation in which United States Army Air Corps planes were launched from US Navy ships, the longest range mission ever undertaken with the B-25 Mitchell bomber. |
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| Famous for its Ludendorff Bridge which was captured by Allied forces on the 7th March 1945 by the U.S. 9th Armored Division |
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| The town came to worldwide attention in 1945 when the Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" powers – the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom – was held at the Livadia Palace. |
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| Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. |
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| Saw the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the end of World War II, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the beginning of the Cold War, the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces, the formation of the United Nations, the second red scare, and most of the Korean War. |
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| his writings gave rise to the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union, thrusting him into a lifelong role as a leading authority on the Cold War. |
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| Refers to the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War. The idea was to defeat the Soviet Union by preventing it from expanding the territory under Communist control or otherwise extending its influence. |
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| The United States was prepared to send any money, equipment or military force to countries which were threatened by the communist government. |
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| The main plan of the United States for the reconstruction of Europe following World War II. |
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| Established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states. The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully negotiated monetary order in world history intended to govern monetary relations among independent nation-states. |
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| Five international organizations responsible for providing finance to countries for purposes of development and poverty reduction, and for encouraging and safeguarding international investment |
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| International Monetary Fund |
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| The international organization entrusted with overseeing the global financial system by monitoring exchange rates and balance of payments, as well as offering technical and financial assistance when asked. |
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| Market form in which a market is dominated by a small number of sellers. Oligopolistic markets are characterised by interactivity. |
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| A large, diversified company with a wide array of businesses |
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| Provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans as well as one-year of unemployment compensation. It also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses. |
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| Any period of greatly increased birth rate within temporal and usually geographical bounds. |
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| First African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947. Robinson's achievement has been recognized by the retirement by each Major League team of his uniform number, 42. |
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| The court held that restrictive covenants are legal because private agreements to exclude persons on the basis of race do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court held, however, that it is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment for the government to enforce such a restrictive covenant. In other words, judicial action is state action. |
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The Soviet Union blocked Western rail and road access to West Berlin--one of the biggest airlifts in history, transferring supplies to 2.2 million inhabitants.
June 24, 1948 - May 11, 1949 |
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| An international organisation1 for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1949. |
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| An economic organisation of communist states and a kind of Eastern Bloc equivalent to the European Economic Community. The military counterpart to the Comecon was the Warsaw Pact. |
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| Was a military organization for the Central European Eastern Bloc countries. It was established in 1955 to counter the perceived threat from the NATO alliance |
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| Refers to any special interest group acting on behalf of a Chinese government to influence Sino-American relations. |
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| A Korean politician and the first president of South Korea. His rule, from March 1948 to April 1960, remains a matter of controversy, arising from Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere. |
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| North Korea officially refers to him as the "Great Leader" and he is designated in the constitution as the country's "eternal President." |
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| An American military leader credited by some with defeating the Japanese in World War II. He helped rebuild Japan after the war and played a key role in limiting the Communist takeover of Korea. |
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| Decisive 15-day invasion and battle during the Korean War. Forces secured Inchon, and broke North Korean control of the Pusan region through a series of landings in enemy territory. |
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| The largest harbor city in Korea, with a population of about 4 million, Busan is South Korea's second largest metropolis next to Seoul |
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| After the surrender of Japan in 1945, the parallel was established as the boundary between the Soviet (north) and American (south) occupation zones in Korea. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| A civil rights organization founded in January 1957. The organization expressed these individuals' belief that a wider organization could be built upon the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, hence the original name. |
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| A form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for protest, often political, social, or economic change. |
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| A series of student political protests performed in 1961 as part of the US civil rights movement. |
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| Primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted in the United States since Reconstruction. |
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| A civil rights organization that played a pivotal role in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. |
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| the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. |
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| An informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975. It involved the parallel efforts by each of those countries to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land people on the moon. |
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| A series of unmanned space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s to demonstrate the viability of artificial satellites. Sputnik 1, The world's first artificial satellite[1], was launched on October 4, 1957 |
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| Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human to travel into space |
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| debate btwn Nixon and Khrushchev in front of a model kitchen. Debate over Capitalism vs. Communism. |
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| The Eisenhower administration's Cold War national security policy. |
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| Battle btwn Viet Minh and France. Signif. because it ended French involvement in Indochina and led to the accords which partitioned Vietnam into North and South. |
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| Was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946-1955) and President (1955-1969) of North Vietnam. |
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| The first President of the Republic of Vietnam (1955–63). Ngô Đình Diệm was unmarried; thus his sister-in-law, Madame Nhu, was regarded as the First Lady of South Vietnam. |
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| Has led Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista, and transformed Cuba into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere. |
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| Was the de facto leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and the country's de jure President from 1940 to 1944 and again, after a coup, from 1952 to 1959. |
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| Am Argentinian-born physician and Marxist revolutionary best known for his prominent role as a guerrilla leader during the Cuban Revolution. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, which seized power in Cuba in 1959. |
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| A United States-planned and funded landing by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in 1961 |
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| A very tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. |
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| The general name used by South Vietnamese and allied soldiers in Vietnam, as well as by much of the English language media to refer to the armed insurgents fighting against the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. |
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| A pair of alleged attacks by North Vietnamese gunboats on two American destroyers, the USS Maddox and the USS C. Turner Joy, in August of 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin. Later research, including a report released in 2005 by the National Security Agency, indicates that the second attack did not occur. |
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| Refer to the use of very large numbers of unguided gravity bombs, often with high proportion of incendiary bombs, to attempt the complete destruction of a target region, either to destroy personnel and materiel, or as a means to demoralize the enemy. |
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