Final Exam Terms Flashcards
(107 cards)
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President 1980-1988
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Ronald Reagan
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Used television to motivate Christians to be political
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Charismatic Movement
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Sought to lower inflated prices and increase the supply of goods
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Supply-side economics
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Pledged Americas support to insurgent groups battling communism
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Reagan doctrine
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Anti-Sandinista guerrillas directed by the CIA
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Contras
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Used as a fueling station for Cuban communists
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Grenada
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Democratic candidate in 1988
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Walter Mondale
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First female candidate for VP
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Geraldine Ferraro
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Took charge of the USSR in 1985
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Shift from command economics to free enterprise
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Perestroika
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Openness of trade and ideas in Russia
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Glasnost
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Eliminated most medium-range missiles
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Intermediate nuclear forces treaty
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Christian television: 700 club
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Pat Robertson
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53 Americans taken for the embassy in Tehran
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Iranian hostage crisis
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Took power of Iran after the fall of the shah
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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Peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel
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Camp David accords
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By 2000, the Panamanians world own and operate the canal
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Panama Canal treaty
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Advocated women’s rights
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Feminists
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High inflation and high unemployment
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Stagflation
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OPEC nations increased prices 300%
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Oil embargo
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President ford gave one to Nixon
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Pardon
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Cause of Nixon’s resignation
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Watergate affair
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Nixon’s VP who also resigned
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Spiro Agnew
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Only non-elected president
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Gerald Ford
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Democratic nominee 1972
George McGovern
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National guardsmen open fire on students
Kent state
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Prove many lies regarding Vietnam
Pentagon papers
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Nixon's Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger
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Attempted to integrate Americas public schools
Busing
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Americas were quiet, decent, and respectable
Silent majority
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Republican nominee 1972
Richard Nixon
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Assassinated by sirhan sirhan
Robert Kennedy
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Leader of the civil rights movement
MLK
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Hippie culture; nonconformists
Counterculture
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60,000 Viet cong surprised our forces
Tet offensive
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Included amendments regarding voting and equal treatment
Civil rights
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Civil rights protest: I have a dream speech
March on Washington
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Determined: separate is not equal
Brown v. Board of education
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Unprecedented growth in population post WWII
Baby boom
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Govt agency for volunteers to help underdeveloped nations
Peace corps
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President during the "Camelot" era
John F. Kennedy
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Guilty of treason
Alger Hiss
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Use of lies, distortion, and innuendo to destroy another person
McCarthyism
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Stood from 1961 to 1989
Berlin Wall
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Khrushchev put long range missiles 90 miles from our shore
Cuban missile crisis
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Our CIA failed to create democracy in Cuba
Bay of pigs
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Post Korea foreign policy regarding Communism
Peaceful coexistence
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Eisenhower's belief: communism in America
Domino theory
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Code named: "fat man" and "little boy"
Atomic bomb
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Demand for Japan's unconditional surrender
Potsdam
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The attempted genocide of the Jewish nation by Hitler
Holocaust
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Young men used for suited flights in WWII
Kamikazes
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Securing air bases on less-fortified islands in the pacific
Island hoping
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Winter in the Ardennes Forest in 1944
Battle of the bulge
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June 6, 1944 - largest amphibious attack in history
D-day invasion
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Led by Eisenhower, land troops in Africa
Operation torch
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General of German panzer division
Erwin Rommel
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Nationwide war effort limiting various goods
Rationing
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FDRs program to assist Great Britain with supplies and industry
Lend-lease
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Erosion of farm lands due to over producing in the 1930s
Dust bowl
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Provisions given to the unemployed during the depression
Bread lines
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Share with wealth - socialism candidate
Huey Long
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Bank accounts insured by the federal government
FDIC
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Project to build dams along the Tennessee river
TVA
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Helped debt ridden farmers keeps their land
AAA
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Created jobs and built roads, public buildings, and parks
WPA
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FDRs weekly talk with America via radio broadcast
Fireside chats
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FDRs promise to the American people after the depression
New Deal
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Fire upon by McArthur during the Hoover Presidency
Bonus army
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Highest tariff in American history: destroyed foreign trade
Smooth-Hawley tariff
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Caused by many factors, including the crash of '29
Great Depression
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Investors paid only a percentage of the cost of the stock
On the margin
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Buying something with the hope of selling is later at a profit
Speculation
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Small monthly payments until the item is paid for
Installment plans
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Christians who fought to remove modernists from their churches
Fundamentalism
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Chicago psychopath, eventually jailed for tax evasion
Al Capone
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1921 American idol - sports in America begins
Babe Ruth
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Begins the science of psychology
Sigmund Freud
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Develops the theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
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Reduced German reparations of WWII only slightly
Dawes Plan
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The federal laws making liquor illegal
Prohibition
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Fear of communism in American
Red scare
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Club where liquor was served during prohibition
Speak easy
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Woodrow Wilson, George Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando, David Lloyd George
Big four
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German nation was responsible for the war and all legal damages therein
War-guilt
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WWI truce
Armistice
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Nickname for WWI American soldier
Doughboy
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Revealed that Germany asked Mexico to invade the USA
Zimmerman telegram
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Wilson stated America would declare war if another passenger ship was attacked
Sussex passage
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German leader during WWI
Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Chased back into Mexico by John J. "Black Jack" Pershing
Pancho Villa
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Submarine
U-boat
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April 6, 1917
USA in WWI
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Ideals for peace written by Woodrow Wilson
14 points
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Later becomes the United Nations, designed by Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
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Adapted learning so to relate to the child's interests
Progressive education
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Created the airplane
Wright brothers
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Created the model-t and the assembly line
Henry Ford
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Defined and halted unfair business practices
Federal trade commission
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Peace between Russia and Japan
Root-Takahira agreement
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TR non-violent show of power
Great white fleet
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Policeman of Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary
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Assisted people of color in the early 1900s
NAACP
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Outlawed impure food
Pure food and drug act
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TR's promise to Americans
Square deal
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Journalists who exposed abuse and corruption
Muckrakers
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Mrs. Martins favorite president
Teddy Roosevelt
