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| the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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| born from 1946-1964, there are 78 million baby boomers in the U.S |
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| a 21 point legislation that included raising minimum wage from $.65 to $.75 expanding Social Security |
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| It helps veterans pay for college. |
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| the migration of thousands of African-Americans from the South to the North to escape problems of racism |
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| nearly 120000 Japanese Americans were held under lock and key in internment camps. |
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| gave the wartime right to put American citizens of Japanese ancestry into concentration camps |
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| A small suburban community that was built by William Levitt for returning servicemen and their families. |
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| not rich but also not poor |
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| during the war the government imposed rationing of food and gasoline |
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| a media propaganda creation devised to encourage women to fill in for men while they were fighting World War II. |
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| authorized President Woodrow Wilson to raise a volunteer infantry force of not more than four divisions. |
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| a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities. |
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| declared the closed shop illegal and permitted the union shop only after a vote of a majority |
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| the women's branch of the US Army |
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| generate capital for the government and make civilians feel involved in their national militaries. |
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| regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II. |
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| an unsuccessful attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban government. |
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| sent a daily airlift which brought food & supplies into West Berlin |
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| a concrete barrier built by East Germany that completely enclosed the city of West Berlin. |
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| central intelligence alliance |
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| created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Harry S. Truman. |
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| the war with nothing but the chinese |
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| keeping something from spreading |
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| a confrontation between the US, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in the early 1960s during the Cold War. |
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| an general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. |
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| a message to the United States Congress on January 5, 1957, was the foreign policy of U.S. |
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| the former President of the Republic of Cuba |
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| agreements reached in 1954 that were intended to provide a basis for the end of the First Indochina War |
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| a highly destructive bomb that works by the nuclear fusion of deuterium |
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| it seperated erurope in to 2 parts |
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| the world's only Jewish state |
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| civil and military struggle that was fought on the Korea Peninsula between 1950 and 1953. |
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| agreement negotiated by the US, USSR, and UK prohibiting tests of nuclear devices |
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| the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the country |
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| was born in 1894 and was one of Stalin's top advisers |
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| a term used to describe the post-World War II struggle between the US and its allies and the USSR and its allies. |
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| A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. |
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| established that the United States would provide for political and military reasons |
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| Francis Gary Powers was shot down while flying over Soviet Air space. |
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| they felt like they would call on the police rather than declaring war |
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| the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. |
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| program of foreign aid presented by J.F. Kennedy to help solve economic/social problems of Latin America |
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| a military alliance made up of 26 countries from Europe and North America. |
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| brings together nations of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen democratic values. |
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| were Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, UK and USA. |
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| has primary responsibility, under the Charter,for the maintenance of international peace and security. |
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| a worldwide organization dedicated to peace |
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| military alliance of eight European Communist nations, enacted to counter the rearmament of West Germany. |
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| an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party |
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| an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. |
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| Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. |
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| A gov't system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all. |
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| Freedom of speech and expression, Freedom of religion, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear |
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| -a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations. |
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| the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union 25 yrs and considered a murderous dictator. |
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| was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928 |
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| an act of Congress passed during World War II authorizing the President to sell, lease, and lend, |
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| was made to appease Germany before the war |
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| designed by a nation to keep itself neutral during a time of conflict or war |
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| formed to allow Hitler to invade Poland without repercussion from the Soviets |
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| the reason America entered WWll |
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| calling for an international quarantine of the aggressor nations. |
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| the making of amends for wrong or injury done |
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| the German state from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler. |
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| a system of government and ideology in which all social, political, economic,and intellectual |
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| the Prime Minister of the UK during WWII |
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| a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. |
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| It is a weapon whose explosive power originates from the fission of atomic nuclei |
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| the first major failure of the Germans in WW II & it threated Hitler's plan to force Britain to accept jews |
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| the Japanese could never again operate offensively |
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| a last ditch attempt by Hitler to split the Allies in their drive towards Germany |
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| first used by the Germans in World War Two and was a tactic based on speed and surprise and needed a military force to be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry foot soldiers. |
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| led the Allied naval forces to victory in the Pacific in World War II. |
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| used for the day on which a combat attack is to be initiated |
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| One of the most complicated military men of all time |
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| an act of great destruction and loss of life |
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| hopping from one island to another |
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| The United States captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan in the Battle of Iwo Jima |
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| He was a theoretical physicist and the father of the atomic bomb. |
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| the project to develop the first nuclear weapon during World War II. |
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| a short movie dealing with current events |
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| a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of leadership of Nazi Germany after World War II |
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| a part of Japan with a major United States Marine Corps base |
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| a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover. |
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| Site of the defeat of Germany in World War II. |
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| the day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945 |
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| called Victory over Japan Day,the Surrender of Japan occurred on August 15 1945.Is a Liberation Day in Korea |
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| posters that make people want to join the war |
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