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| Major environmental crisis of 1930s: |
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| They couldn’t return investors’ money |
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| Why did banks close after the Crash? |
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| Who was affected by the Great Depression? |
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| They felt it went too far in reforming the economy |
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| Why did Republicans criticize the New Deal? |
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| The attack at Pearl Harbor by Japan |
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| Why did the US enter WWII? |
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| Long-held prejudice and fear |
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| Why were Japanese Americans evacuated from the West Coast? |
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| To take Europe back from the Axis |
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| What was the goal of DDay |
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| What was the Nazi “final solution to the Jewish question”? |
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| To develop an atomic bomb |
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| What was the goal of the Manhattan Project? |
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| Leave their jobs and return home |
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| What were women expected to do after WWII? |
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| A Soviet blockade of West Berlin |
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| What was the Berlin airlift a response to? |
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| Being sympathetic to Communist ideas |
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| What did the HUAC accuse many in Hollywood of? |
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| What was the outcome of the Korean War? |
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| Political conflict and military tensions |
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| The Cold War was characterized by… |
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| the creation of stable democracies |
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| What was a goal of the Marshall plan? |
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| From blue collar to white collar jobs |
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| What was the shift in the workforce after WWII? |
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| Congress increased spending on teaching science and math |
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| What was a result of the launch of Sputnik? |
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| What role were women expected to fulfill in the 1950s? |
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| A style to call their own |
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| What did rock and roll music give young people? |
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| African Americans should separate from white society |
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| The black power movement taught that… |
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| Brown v. Board of Education ended… |
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| According to the Warren Commission, JFK was assassinated by… |
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| It gave the federal government too much authority |
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| Critics of the Great Society claimed… |
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| What brought the US and USSR to the brink of nuclear war? |
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| To stop the spread of communism |
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| What was the guiding principle of JFK and LBJ’s foreign policy? |
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| The equality of men and women |
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| Feminism describes the theory of… |
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| Silent Spring exposed the harmful use of… |
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| At Woodstock, people gathered for… |
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| The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| Increased involvement in Vietnam began with… |
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| Tropical infections and booby traps |
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| What difficulties did US soldiers in Vietnam face? |
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| College students could avoid being drafted |
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| Why was the fairness of the draft questioned? |
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| North Vietnam controlled all of Vietnam |
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| How did the war in Vietnam finally end in 1975? |
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| Young people of the 1960s had new opportunities thanks to… |
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| OPEC’s embargo resulted in… |
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| Détente with China and USSR |
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| Nixon’s greatest foreign policy accomplishment was… |
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| The Watergate scandal resulted in… |
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| The hostage crisis in Iran |
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| Adding to Reagan’s victory over Carter was … |
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| Bush responded to the early 90s recession by… |
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| Female on the Supreme Court |
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| Sandra Day O’Connor was the first… |
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| To protect the flow of oil to the West |
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| Why did Bush respond forcefully to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq? |
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| The 1992 election focused on… |
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| Civil war in the Balkans and Africa |
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| Post Cold War foreign policy had to deal with… |
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| The fastest growing age group in the 90s was… |
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| Health insurance for every American |
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| What was the goal of Clinton’s healthcare plan? |
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| To promote free trade among Canada, the US, and Mexico |
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| What was the main purpose of NAFTA? |
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| World Trade Towers and Pentagon |
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| On 9/11/2001 terrorists flew planes into… |
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| Armstrong and Aldrin were the first two people to… |
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| Carter won the election by presenting himself as… |
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| President Ford’s most controversial act was… |
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