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| Form of resistance; Anti-Eviction Movements |
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| Gave workers the right to join unions |
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| (1936-1937) Victory for the American working class; FDR and his new deal, Wagner Act, Social Security, and Fair Labor standards (8 hour work day, minimum wage) |
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| Jews went to Cuba, denied, went to U.S., denied; went back and mostly died. |
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| Joe Louis vs Max Schemling |
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| "dress rehearsal for the war" Joe drops right, Max hits him and wins, U.S. cheers for Max |
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U.S. has all of the power, we bring freedom to everyone.
Henry Luce - "our time... power house..."; become like us, it's our job to spread democracy |
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| gives Europe loans (movies, coke, etc.) |
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| Korean war (any country... communism... we will save) |
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| Land reform; led taking land and giving it to people |
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Democrat elected; oil shouldn't belong to Britain, U.S. disagrees.
Called "the Shah," not a well liked man, rules by force for 20 years |
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| Wheeling speech, 1950. Says he has a list of communists in the government but really doesn't. |
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| (republicans) setbacks for labor movement |
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| Betty Freidan; resistance to separate spheres |
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| black MLB player, first year playing was rough |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education |
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| Blacks and whites were seperated until 1971 |
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| "world must be made for safe democracy" (Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush) |
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| Largest private employer in the U.S.; low prices, low wages. Contradictions of capitalism. |
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| (1970's-present) housing prices go up, women and men work |
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| solve by looking better and how to please him |
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| Title IX of the Higher Education Act |
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| Women and sports, can't be told what to major in |
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| a school of macroeconomic thought that argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce (supply) goods and services, such as lowering income tax and capital gains tax rates, and by allowing greater flexibility by reducing regulation |
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| built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after the President of the United States at the time |
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| the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. |
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| refers to a mass migration that took place between 1929 and 1939, when as many as 500,000 people of Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the US |
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| is a town that is or was purposely all-white. |
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| refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program |
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| 9/11, dramatically reduced restrictions in law enforcement agencies' gathering of intelligence within the United States |
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| was an Egyptian terrorist and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks who served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, crashing the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks |
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| also known as the "Golden Boy", was a Mexican-American boxer. He won a gold medal for the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics. |
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| was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association |
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| He founded the political magazine National Review, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement |
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| was a historic boxing event. It pitted then world Heavyweight champion George Foreman against Muhammad Ali. Ali won by knocking out Foreman in the eighth round. |
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| was a political scandal as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at theWatergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon |
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| principal character in the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. |
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| States' Rights Democratic Party |
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was a leader in the African American civil-rights movement and the American labor
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| was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty |
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| unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro |
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| was an African-American revolutionary leftist organization |
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| was a thirteen-day confrontation between theSoviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. Soviet Union was building nuclear missiles to launch at U.S. |
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| outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S |
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| Racial Segregation that happens by fact rather than legal requirement |
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| After four runs for U.S. president he earned the title, "the most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics |
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| an American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet |
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| involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard |
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| Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers |
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| military campaign during the Vietnam War launched by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. |
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| United States Supreme Court case which held that courts could not enforce racial covenants on real estate. |
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| relocation and internment by the United States government of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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| Works Progress Administration |
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| was the largest and most ambitiousNew Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects |
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| Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) |
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| was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955 |
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| was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 17–23 |
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| Executive Order 8802 (FEPC) |
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| to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry |
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| Congress of Racial Equality |
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| CORE is a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement |
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| a set of domestic programs in the United States promoted by President Lyndon B. Johnson and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s |
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| was popular with the poorest and most marginalized people in the gay community |
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| an album by Merle Haggard and the Strangers, released in 1969 |
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| a city in northwestern Vietnam;The city is best known for the events which occurred there during the First Indochina War |
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| The city is best known for the events which occurred there during the First Indochina War |
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| Constitutional lawyer, American politically conservative activist and author who founded the Eagle Forum |
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| a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention being undertaken by the United States government, with the assistance of participating countries, intended to both define and reduce the illegal drug trade |
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| The organization was formed to address various issues concerning the Native American urban community in Minneapolis, including poverty, housing, treaty issues, and police harassment |
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| a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in support of the Iranian Revolution. |
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| a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field |
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| a caribbean island that the U.S. invaded |
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