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| an area of the US Plains that included parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The term was coined in the 1930s, when dry weather and high winds caused many dust storms throughout the United States, but particularly in this area |
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| agricultural adjustment act |
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| restricted production during the New Deal by paying farmers to reduce crop area |
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| the name given to a group of diverse academics who served as advisers to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the early period of his tenure. The group acted as an informal Cabinet and was first suggested in March 1932 by Roosevelt's legal counsel Samuel Rosenman |
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| federal housing authority |
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| A part of the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development which offers mortgage loan insurance programs to buyers of qualifying properties |
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| studied the causes of United States involvement in World War I between 1934 and 1936 |
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| a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. nobel prize lit |
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| pioneering United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 |
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| the foremost pressure group against American entry into the Second World War. Often portrayed as somehow pro-Nazi they were in fact a disparate collection of Old Right Republicans, Midwest populists and left wing pacifists |
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| United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan |
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| June 6, 1944—the day on which "Operation Overlord" began—commencing the British, American, and Canadian effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II |
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| the date of Allied victory in Europe, World War II |
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| the date of Allied victory over Japan, World War II |
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| the meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill between November 28 and December 1 1943l; first war conference among the three world powers in which Stalin was present |
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| Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Generalissimo Joseph V. Stalin met in Potsdam to confer on plans for reestablishing peace |
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| United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States |
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| An international organization comprising most of the nations of the world, formed in 1945, to promote peace, security, and economic development |
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| the boundary between the Soviet bloc countries of Eastern Europe and the West European countries. The phrase was first used by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in March 1946 |
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| represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to April 1956 and November 1956 to 1964 as a Democrat and from 1964 to 2003 as a Republican |
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| elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan |
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| an expression applied to the zealous search for Communists in various US institutions during the 1950s |
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| refers to a specific United States movement, political event, and/or period of time in which desegregation was being implemented in national education policy |
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| conference between many countries that agreed to restore peace in Indochina and Korea. It produced a set of treaties |
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| American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denied the true purpose of the plane, but were forced to admit it when the U.S.S.R produced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to corroborate their claim of being spied on aerially |
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| Term coined by Dulles in 1954 to imply the United States would use nuclear weapons against the Soviets; military doctrine in which an entity commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack |
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| national defense education act |
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| passed in response to the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and the fear the United States was falling behind in mathematics and science |
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| the 35th President of the United States ; assassinated |
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| the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, and was appointed by his brother as Attorney General for his administration |
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| the Vice President under John F. Kennedy (1961–1963) and later ascended to the 36th presidency (1963–1969) after Kennedy's assassination |
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| used by John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in 1960 as the Democratic nominee, and was used as a label for his administration's domestic program |
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| one of the largest demonstrations in support of civil rights and justice for African Americans and other minorities. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the gathering at the Lincoln Memorial of over 250,000 civil rights activists |
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| operation rolling thunder |
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| the code name for the supposedly non-stop, but often interrupted bombing raids in North Vietnam conducted by the United States armed forces during the Vietnam War |
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| a campaign of legislation and social services aimed at reducing or eliminating poverty in the United States of America. The term was first introduced by Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| White House Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon; became deeply involved in the Watergate scandal cover up, even referred to as "master manipulator of the cover up" by the FBI |
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| a Democratic United States Senator from the state of North Carolina from 1954 to 1974 |
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| a former military analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the US military's account of activities during the Vietnam Wa |
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| political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon |
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| 444-day period during which the new government of Iran after the Iranian Revolution held hostage 66 diplomats |
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| prohibit gender discrimination |
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| a massacre by American soldiers of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians |
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| an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, founder of the Moral Majority & Liberty University, and a prominent Conservative activist. His parents were Carey and Helen Falwell |
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| an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1981. She was the first woman to serve on the Court |
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| the first and, so far, only woman to be a candidate for Vice President of the United States on a major party ticket |
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| "Young Urban Professional," describes a demographic of people generally between their late twenties and early thirties |
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| a document released during the 1994 Congressional election campaign by the United States Republican Party. It detailed the actions that the Republicans would take upon becoming the majority party in Congress |
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| Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms |
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| established the United Farm Workers union, and is a source of great pride for Hispanics nationwide |
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| United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against polio |
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| United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America |
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| a disparity between genders involving quality or quantity |
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| A style of painting and sculpture that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in Britain and the United States; based on the visual cliche, subject matter, and impersonal style of popular mass-media imagery |
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| a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism |
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| An art movement, primarily in painting, that originated in the United States in the 1940s and remained strong through the 1950s |
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| congress of industrial organization |
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