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Unit 5: Study Guide
The Modern Era
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History
11th Grade
11/28/2010

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Iron Curtain
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imaginary wall, that cut off capitalist and communist nations in the eastern part of europe
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NATO
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alliance fored to protect 12 nations from military agression by the USSR
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Sputnik 1
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The first satallite lauched into ordit by the USSR
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NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Federal Program for space and science
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Warsaw Pact
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Alliance formed to protect 8 communist nations
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Bay of Pigs
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US invasion of Cuba where cuban refuges trianed by the cia were quickly defeated
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Perestroika
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Russian Word meaning freedom of information
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Kent State Tragedy
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7 college students shot by the national guard at Kent State university in ohio
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SDS
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Students for a democratic Society
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INF treaty
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US and USSR agree to limit intermediate range and short range missiles
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SNCC
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Interstate Highway act
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interstate built in order to transport military goods
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Executive order 9981
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integration of the US military
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Mapp v. Ohio
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Outcome was search and seizure laws being passed
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Gideon v. Wainwright
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Outcome was that the poor could recieve free and legal counsel
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26th Amendment
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lowered the voting age to 18
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Great Society
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established medicare and medicaid, and cleanair and water acts
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silent spring
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novel writen by Rachel Carson
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Cesar Chavez
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leader of the grape boycott, farm worker and civil rights activist
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Rachel Carson
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Marine Biologist that wrote many novels
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Fidel Castro
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communist leader of cuba
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Joseph Stailn
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leader of the USSR during ww2
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Mao Zedong
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communist leader of china
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Khrushchev
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leader that came into power after the fall of stalin
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Chang kai-shek
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Capitalist leader overthrown by Mao Zedong by a communist revolution
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Due process
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The idea that laws and legal proceedings must be fair
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Watergate Scandal
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Nixon sends in spies to Democratic National convention
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Earth Day
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under nixon April 22, 1970
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Linda Brown
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Brown v. board of education, first child to integrate an elementary school
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Stokley Carmichael
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Black Activist, former president of the SNCC promoted black power
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