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Chapter 21-23 Flashcards

(36 cards)

1
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Determined: separate is not equal

A

Brown v. Board of education

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2
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Unprecedented growth in population post WWII

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Baby boom

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3
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Government agency for volunteers to help underdeveloped nations

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Peace corps

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4
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Presidency during the “Camelot” era

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John F. Kennedy

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5
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Guilty of treason

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Alger hiss

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6
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Use of lies, distortion, and innuendo to destroy another person

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McCarthyism

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7
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Stood from 1961-1989

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Berlin Wall

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8
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Khrushchev put long range missiles 90 miles fro our shore

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Cuban missile crisis

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9
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Our CIA failed to create democracy in Cuba

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Bay of Pigs

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10
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Post Korea foreign policy regarding communism

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Peaceful coexistence

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11
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Eisenhower’s belief: communism in Asia

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Domino theory

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12
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Code name: fat man and little boy

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Atomic bomb

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13
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Demand for Japan’s unconditional surrender

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Potsdam

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14
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The attempted genocide of the Jewish nation by hitler

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Holocaust

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15
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Young men used for suicide flights in WII

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kamikazes

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16
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Securing air bases on less-fortified islands in the pacific

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Island hopping

17
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Winter in the Ardennes forest

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Battle of the bulge

18
Q

June 6, 1994- largest amphibious attack in history

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D-day invasion

19
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Led by Eisenhower, land troops in Africa

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Operation torch

20
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General of German panzer division

21
Q

Civil rights protest: I Have A Dream Speech

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March on Washington

22
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National war effort limiting various goods

23
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December 7, 1941- Japanese attack on pacific fleet

24
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FDR’s program to assist Great Britain with supplies and industry

25
Erosion of farm lands due to over producing in the 1930's
Dust bowl
26
Provisions given to the unemployed during the depression
Bread lines
27
Share the wealth- socialism candidate
Huey long
28
Bank accounts insured by the federal government
FDIC
29
Project to build dams along the Tennessee river
TVA
30
Helped debt ridden farmers keep their land
AAA
31
Created jobs and build roads, public buildings and parks
WPA
32
FDR's weekly talk with America via radio broadcast
Fireside Chats
33
FDR'S promise to the American people after the depression
New deal
34
Fired upon by MacArthur during the Hoover Presidency
Bonus army
35
Highest tariff in american history: destroyed foreign trade
Smooth-Hawley tariff
36
Caused by many factors, including the crash of '29
Great Depression