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| WW2 the war killed almost 420000 Americans soviet union has more than ________. |
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| 20 million killed citizen and soldiers and weakened agriculture, and industrial sectors |
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________ term developed by 1947 the ideological rivaly between the USSR and US. |
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| ________ forms a joint agreement between U.S., Canada, and Western European countries. |
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| National Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| In 1948 President Truman __________. |
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| desegregates armed forces |
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| In 1949 _____ approve development of the ________, this after learning USSR has detonated an atomic bomb. |
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| Hard line U.S. policy of containment developed by ______. |
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| U.S. emerged from WW2 as an _____. |
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| This because the nation was at the time ________. |
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American ______ were the most serious domestic problem after WW2.
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| inflation and labor relations |
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| Know that the G.I Bill after WW2 allowed for veterans to receive _______. |
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| job training, education, and low-interest home loans |
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| African-American vets returned back from WW2 was a resolution to ______. |
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| Truman also had _______ - looking ideas about advancing civil rights. |
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| He won the presidental election in 1948 because and of ______. |
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| broad support from the labor unions |
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| Truman's presidency also enshrined the ______. |
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| motion of guilt by association |
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| A major influence on social norms was television. Television commercials ________. |
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| told people what they need |
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| ______ spearheads the rebid search for communists and sympathizers throughtout the American government. |
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| It took on something that resembled a witchhunt: Federal employees was _________. |
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| investigated citizen were blacklisted, and homosexuals were harassment |
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| McCarthy begins ________. |
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| attcking the army and citizens-soldiers: this triggered his down fall. |
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| Korea in the 1950s ________ and triggers the US to intervene. |
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| Communist North Korea invades South Korea |
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| The WW2 allies commander, Eisenhower (Ike) was known during his president as ______. |
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| rising above partisan politics. Governed by compromise and consensus |
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| Eisenhower __________ eisenhower interstate system |
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| expanded the walfare state and left the size and functions of the federal government interact |
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| Brown vs. Board of education |
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| Police in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested Rosa Parks on Decomber 1, 1995, ________. |
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| for refusing to give up her seat to a white man |
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| In 1956 Bus Boycott in Montgomery Supreme Court evenually decided that ______. |
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| segragated buses was unconstitutional |
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| ______ side with _____ in the 1960s election and vice president by Lyndon Johnson carried the sourthern vote. |
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| MLK Jrs. was assainated on April 4, 1968 in ________. |
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| Eisenhower warns of the Military Industrial complex, or the collaboration between military and defense contractors to ________. |
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| spread more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems |
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| Space race in 1957 the soviets launched sputrink this triggered an ______. |
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| inferrority complex in the U.S. psyche, and an American desire to intensify scientific, technological and philosophical development |
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| _______ demonstrated the assembly - line approach to housing. |
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| Throughout the 1950s African Americans migrated to cities, and their ________. |
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| demographic increased by 50% |
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| Blues and Rock n Roll __________. |
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| Broken down racial barriers |
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| Lyrics and styles was all ________. |
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| Stuff was needed for a US population that ________. |
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| increased to 30 millions, consumer borrowing, and aggressive advertising |
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| In 1961, Federal communications comission chairman Newton Minow said television was a ________. |
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| In 1950s, television __________. |
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| did not encourage women to pursue careers outside of home |
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| Betty Friedian's Femimine Mystique 1963 argued that the ideology of domesticity pressured women ___________. Evenually Friedian organized the _______. |
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- to seek fulfiilment in serving others
- National Organization for Women in 1966
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| Know that Allen Ginberg and Jack Kerouac wrote works that ________. |
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| rejected almost every aspect of mainstream culture |
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| In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" MLK explained the ________. This help ________. |
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- importance of civil disobedience
- moblize masses of people to use passive resistance for change
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| By 1957 black clergy in the South chose King to head the___________. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| Ceser chavez and Doloies Huerta orgainzed chicanos to __________. By calling themselves Chicanos they tried ________. |
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- improve migrant farm-working conditionsin California
- ethnicity to political activism
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| JFK wanted to eradicate poverty by ______. Berlin Wall established in 1961 by USSR to stop __________. |
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growing the economy
mass exodus of east Germans into west Berlin. |
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| JFK launches the Peace Corps in 1961 to engage Americans __________. |
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| in directly working in and with 3rd world countries |
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| Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1960. This is significant beacuse __________. |
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| potential to unite rather than divide the country was lost |
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| LBJ came to the White House with large amounts of political and social capital. He was extremely skilled ________. |
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| in persuading and theatening legisrators |
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| LBJ great society program included ________. |
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| Medicare, the Fair Housing Act, the Voting Rights Act and Project Head Start |
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| ________ provided the prologue to thw war in Vietnam |
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| US passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, this based on ___________. |
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| uncomfirmed reports that North Vietnamese gunboats fired on U.S. naval ships. |
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| Largest social group of US soldiers in Vietnam came from ________. |
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| low-income and working class |
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| The war in Vietnam contributed to the ________. Nixon's major adviser was ________. |
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- downfall of 2 presidents LBJ and Nixon
- Henry A. Kissinger
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| over much cabinet authority over to White House Staff |
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| The Watergrate Scandal involved the uncovering of Nixon campaign workers who had broken into and __________. |
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| bugged the Democratic Party headquaters in Washington, D.C |
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| Nixon charged with __________. |
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| abuse of power, obstruction of justice and contempt of congress President ford pardons Nixon. |
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| ________ Look into Reagon, Congress, and the leftist sandinsta governement in Nicargnia. |
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| US supported the Shah of Iran up to 1979 because he was a ________. |
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| non-communist ruler in a strategic area |
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