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| What 2 nations fought against the united nations during the Korenan War? |
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| Ethel and Julius Rosenburg* |
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| What US senator created a "witch hunt" saying he had a list of known communist in the state department? |
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| What organization was established in Western Europe to provide for mutual defense against the Soviets and their allies? |
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| What General was fired by Truam during the Korean War because of his demand that the President expnd the war? |
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| What post WW2 legislation helped returning soldiers attend college and get low cost loans to buy homes? |
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| Truman's support of civil right at the 1948 Democratic National Convention led to the formation of what political party? |
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| Dixiecrats or States rights party |
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| Who made the "Checkers speech" and said that all he and his family had only received a dog names Checkers? |
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| What Presidential election saw the first televised debates? |
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| What was the name of Kennedy's domestic program? |
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| What did Kennedy set as the goal for the Uited States in the space race? |
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| put the first man on the moon before the end of the decade |
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| What commission was set up to investigate the Kennedy assassination? |
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| The Office of Economic Opportunity was a major part of President Johnson's war on |
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| Whose arrest in Montgomery, AL led to a bus boycott? |
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| What protest method was used by CORE to integrate many restaurants? |
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| Whose philosophy and techniques of protest did Martin Luther King Jr draw on? |
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| Where did Martin Luther King Jr give his "I have a Dream Speech"? |
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| Which leader of the civil rights movement advocated the end of segragation through nonviolent passive civil disobedience? |
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| What Supreme Court case in 1869 approved the "separate but equal" doctrine of segregation? |
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| What organization was created by Dr. King to end segregatio and encourage African Americans to register to vote? |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| What organization's Voter Education Project was focused on the rural areas of the Deep South? |
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| What act passed in 1957 was intedned to protect African Americans' voting rights? |
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| What was organized to draw attention to the South's refusal to integrate bus terminals |
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| What civil rights leader came to believe that an integrated society was possible after a pilgrimmage to Mecca? |
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| What group was organized in Vietnam to fight the Japanese during WW2? |
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| What resolution passed by Congress gave war powers to president Johnson in 1965? |
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| What defoliant was used in Vietnam to destroy the Vietcong's ability to hide in the jugles of Southeast Asia? |
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| What military action, by the North Vietnamese , caused many in the mainstream American media to openly criticize the war effort in 1968? |
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| What battle in Inochina caused the French to withdraw? |
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| Which American preident sent in military advisors in the 1950s to try and help the South Vietnamese against the Vietcong? |
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| What did monks do in South Vietnam to protest discrimination against Buddhists? |
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| A sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam that started in 1965 was called |
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| operation rolling thunder |
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| What offensive was a turning point of the wat as the North Vietnames scored a political and propoganda victory out of ilitary defeat in 1968? |
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| In the summer of 1968 where did police and antiwar protesters clash? |
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| 1968 Democratic National Convention |
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| What secret papers published by the New York Times showed that the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam? |
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| What movement started because restrictions placed on student's rights to distribute literature and recruit volunteers for political causes? |
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| What rock concert drew thousands of people to a farm in upstate New York for a weekend in the summer of 1969? |
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| What book written by Betty Friedan sparked th women's movement by reportig on the unfulfilled lives of many houswives? |
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| What Supreme Court case ruled in a reverse discrimination case that schools could use race but not quotas for deterining college admissions? |
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| Bakke vs Univeristy of Cali |
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| Who successfully organized migrant farm workers into the American Farm Worker Union by calling for boycotts on ceratin fruits and vegetables? |
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| What inciden in the 1970s caused many Americans to question the safety of nuclear energy? |
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| What enviromentalist wrote Silent Spring and started the modern enviromentalist movement? |
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| What Educational Amendment prohibited federally funded chools from discriminating against women in sports and in other aspects of their operations? |
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| What Supreme Court cae ruled that a woman's rights to have an abortion could not be interfered with by state laws in the first 3 months of the pregnancy? |
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| In what Supreme Court case did the court rule that busig to desegregate schools was constitutional? |
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| Schwan vs Charlotte Mecklenburg |
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| What town became a "poster child" for dangerous pollution as an old toxic waste leaked into the ground and caused reesidents to experience health problems? |
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| Who was the first American President to visit the Soviet Union? |
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| Where did burglars working for the White House try to bug and steal information from Democratic Party headquarters? |
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| In the Watergate scandal what did President Nixon do that was illegal? |
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| Nixon's VP that was forced to resign because he had taken bribes as gov, of Maryland was |
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| By the 1970s the US economy had become dangerously dependent on what imported commodity? |
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| What action by the Soviets caused Pres. Carter to impose an embargo on grain sale to the Soviet Union and a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics? |
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| What American Pres had an "enemies list" of people he considered to be a threat to his presidency? |
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| WHat was Reagan before he was gov. of Cali? |
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| In the Iran-Contra scandal what did the US trade to Iran for the freeig of hostages beig held in Lebanon? |
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| What was Reagan's economic tiulus plan of higher interest reates, lower taxes and less government regulation of business commonly called? |
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| Reagan's proposal to destroy incoming enemy ICBMs from space was called |
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| strategic offense initiative (STAR WARS) |
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| In May of 1989 where did Chinese students hold demonstrations for democracy? |
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| What nation did Iraq invade to start the United Nations actio in Desert Storm? |
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| What was the firt practical and affordable home computer? |
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| What company was founded by Bill Gates? |
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| What gun control bill was passed as an indirect result of Hinckley's assassination attempt against Pres Reagan? |
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| What did opponents of lowering trade barriers fear it might cause in the American economy? |
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| What was the global agreement to lower greenhouse eissions worldwide called? |
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| What did George Bush push through to prevent a recession? |
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| What Muslim terrorist group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks? |
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| WHat did the terrorists use to attack on 9/11/01? |
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| what computer innovations did apple computer come up with on its caintosh computers that made it so user friendly? |
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| What is the global information system alled that links computers wordwide? |
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| Who did Pres Clinton appoint to head a task force on health care reform? |
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| What peace areement was signed to bring an end to the fighting in Kosovo? |
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| Who were the repulican and Democratic candidates in the 2000 pres election? |
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| Pres Bush's educatio reform bil to have annual reading and math tests in pubblic schools for grades 3-8 was called |
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| What sites were attacked by terrorist on 9/11? |
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| Pentagon and World Trade Center |
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