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Final Exam Flashcards

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Adolf hitler

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Rose to power in 1933 quest to dominate Europe and the world

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Good neighbor policy

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Declared the U.S. Would not depend on military force to exercise its influence in the region (Latin)

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Chang Kai shek

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Led the Chinese nationalists to fight against the Japanese

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Neutrality acts

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Avoid entanglement in foreign wars

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Spanish civil war

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July 1936 nationalist fascist attacked the democratically elected government

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Appeasement

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British prime minister Neville chamberlain offered an hitter an appeasement that would give hitter Germany if he left Czech alone

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Joseph Stalin

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Soviet permier

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Winston Churchill

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British new prime minister vowed he will never surrender to hitler

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Battle of Britain

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Handed hitlers first defeat being outgunned

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Pearl Harbor

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December 7 1941- 183 aircraft lifted off six Japanese carriers and attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet

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Internment camps

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Relocation centers

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Selective service act

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Register men of age In draft

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Rosie the riveter

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Advertising women who worked in a war industry

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D-day

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Largest amphibious assault in world history June 6 1944

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United Nations

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Mew peacekeeping organization, security council would wield decisive , allied powers China , France , great britiian, the Soviet Union, U.S.

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Hiroshima

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First bomb and nicknamed little boy

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Nagasaki

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Fat man , the second bomb

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Holocaust

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Jews

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Cold War

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Soviet Union communists

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Harry s Truman

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Senator of Missouri democratic

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Dwight d Eisenhower

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General American army

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Iron curtain

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic

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Containment

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Is foreign policy hold in check the the power and influence of the Soviet Union or other nations of communism

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Berlin airlift

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Confirmed the wisdom of the containment

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Hydrogen bomb

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Equivalent to give hundred atomic bombs

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NATO

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Set to counter a soviet threat to Western Europe

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CIA

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Gather info but also to perform any activities related to intelligence affecting national security

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Red scare

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A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism

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Joesph R. McCarthy

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Wisconsin senator avowed that the communist within our borders have been more responsible for the success of communism abroad than soviet Russia

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Interstate highway system

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The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, Interstate Freeway System, Interstate System, or simply the Interstate) is a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States

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Indian relocations program

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was a United States law intended to encourage Native Americans in the United States to leave Indian reservations, acquire vocational skills, and assimilate into the general population.

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Sun belt

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West and southwest the sun belt epecially boomed in proudution commerce and population

33
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Kitchen debate

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The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959.

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Baby boomers

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American birthdate soared between 1945 And 1960 peaking in 1957 with 4.3 births

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Billy graham

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Nationwide crusades of Baptist minister billy graham

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Beat Generation

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A small group of primarily male literary figures based in New York City and San Fran

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Brown v board of education

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laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education.

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Accused of kill jfk

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Great society

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The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

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Civil rights act of 1964

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that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

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American Indian movement

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To attack problems in cities where about 300,000

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Cesar Chavez

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Organized a movement to improve the wretched conditions of migrant agricultural workers

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Dolores Huerta

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Organized a movement to improve the wretched conditions of migrant agricultural workers

44
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Stonewall riots

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were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community

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Title ix

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Ban sex discrimination in education

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Apollo program

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Space exploration

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Peace corps

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Program recruiting young people to work in developing countries

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Army of the republic of Vietnam

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were the ground forces of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, the armed forces of South Vietnam,

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Ho Chi Minh

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North Vietnam leader

50
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Agent orange

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Destroy the vietcongs jungle hideouts and food supply

51
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Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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All necessary measures

52
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Operation rolling thunder

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A strategy of gradually intensified bombing of north Vietnam

53
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My lai

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Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968

54
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Benito Mussolini

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Fascist leader of Italy since 1922 wanted empire in Africa

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