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Honors US History Final
People and vocabulary terms, second semester
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History
11th Grade
05/25/2007

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Husband/wife spies executed after WWII.
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Jieshi
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Leader of Nationalist China forced to move his gov't to Formosa.
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Mao Zedong
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Became leader of Red China in 1949
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38th Parallel
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Line separating North and South Korea
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Iron Curtain
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Imaginary line separating East and West Europe
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Richard Nixon
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Made his reputation as a "red baiter", later became president, pulled country out of Vietnam, resigned because of Watergate
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Douglas MacArthur
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Called the American Caesar, fired by Truman over a disagreement regarding Korea
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Nuremberg
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Site of a series of controversial war-crimes trials that led to the execution of twelve Nazi leaders
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Yulu River
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Boundary between Korea and China where the approach of US troops in 1950 brought the Communist Chinese into the Korean War
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Braceros
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Mexican laborers admitted to the US during WWII to provide agricultural assistance
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Robert MacNamara
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Johnson's Sec of Defense, supported American involvement in Vietnam
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Goldwater
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Conservative Republican defeated in 1964 by Johnson
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Great Society
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Nickname for Johnson's domestic policy
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Peace Corp.
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Foreign program created by JFK to help underdeveloped countries
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Viet Cong
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South Vietnamese who supported North's cause
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Lucy Stone
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Oberlin graduate who kept her last name after marriage
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Francis Willard
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Admired by Susan B Anthony, leader of WCTU
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Victoria Woodhull
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Flamboyent feminist who ran for president on a platform which included free love
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Lucretia Mott
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Along with Stanton, organized Seneca Falls convention
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Carrie Nation
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Lunatic temeperance advocate eventually killed by a woman tavern owner
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Sojourner Truth
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Former slave who became and ardent feminist and abolitionist, Oprah of her time
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Amelia Bloomer
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Her name became synonymous with radical women's dress reform
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Her NAWSA eventually became the League of Women Voters
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Harry Burn
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Cast the deciding vote for suffrage in TN.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Radical british suffragist who spawned a similar movement in the US
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Edith Wilson
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Though cool, to the idea of suffrage, she literally ran the goverment during her husbands illness
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Inez Boissevain
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Her combination of brains and beauty made her the perfect choice to lead the suffrage parade
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Jeanette Rankin
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Suffragette, pacifist, first woman in congress
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Seneca Falls
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Took place in 1848 with Stanton, Mott, and Anthony running it, dealt with issues of women's civil rights, peace, religion, and votes for women-initially no men allowed, changed second day men ran it
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Purple, white, and gold
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Colors that stood for women's suffrage. Purple meant royalty, white meant purity, gold meant glory women strived for
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Red handkerchief boys
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Men mostly in southern states who were against suffrage, who were essentially redknecks, called that because they carried red handkerchiefs in back pocket
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Minor vs. Happersette
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Case taken to Supreme Court by Virginia Minor saying she had the right to vote because of the 14th Amend.; lost case because they said it only included white and black men
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"Prison Specials"
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When train cars full of women suffragist had been arrested traveled around and showed they were fighting for the cause
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Sterling 49
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Number of votes out of the 99 representatives in TN needed to pass the ratification of the 19th Amend thus giving enough states throughout country for women to vote
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Kaiser Wilson
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Name given to Wilson by suffragettes when using Wilson's own words against him; came into use after Wilson pleaded for Treaty of Versailles and American women realized German women ahd the right to vote
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Hundred Days
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The first months of FDR's presidency
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Wife of FDR and called "Champion of Dispossessed"
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Works Progress Administration
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Major relief program of New Deal
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Public Works Administration
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Long range recovery program of ND
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