Final Terms Study Guide Flashcards
(74 cards)
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The Scopes Trial
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Prohibition
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Archduke Ferdinand
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U2 Incident
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Woodstock
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-1969 Music Festival (3 days)
-Rock
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Tet Offensive
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NAFTA
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-1994
-Mex & Can less tariffs
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Treaty of Versailles
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Harry S. Truman
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Richard Daley
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Roe v Wade
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George Wallace
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-Gov. of Alabama
-Banned Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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-Leader of South Vietnam
-Rigged elections
-Unpopular Roman Catholic
-National Liberation Front
-Kennedy Aids Ngo (1963)
-Monks set themselves on Fire
-Diem brothers assassinated
-CIA backs ARVN - South Vietnam Army
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North/South Vietnam
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“I have a dream”
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-200000+
-Lincoln Memorial
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Russian satellites
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Containment
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Credit/Installment Plans
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Harlem Renaissance
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Lend Lease Act
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The Zimmerman Note
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Island hopping
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Stalingrad
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Richard Nixon
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
-1979
-US support Shah
-Ayatollah Khomeini forced Shah out
-Islamic Militants take US embassy in Tehran
-Carter Rescue Mission (April 1980)
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Camp David Accords
-1978
-Anwar Sadar (Egypt)
-Menachem Begin (Israel)
-Signed peace agreement
-Carter's best accomplishment
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Jackie Robinson
-Broke color barrier in baseball
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Unrestricted Submarine warfare
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The Scottsboro Case
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Fireside Chats
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Pearl Harbor
-20 warships, 200 aircrafts, 2403 Americans
-US Navy Base
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The Truman Doctrine
-1947
-U.S. support free people
-Brits couldn't help (no $$$)
-Congress gives $400 mill. to Greece & Turkey
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Joseph McCarthy
-US Senator WI
-Downfall
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KKK
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Ho Chi Minh
-"He Who Enlightens"
-Communist Nation
-League of Independence for Vietnam (1941)
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Reaganomics
-1981
-Supply-Side economics
-Inflation rate drops
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Bill Clinton
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Saddam Hussein
-(1990) (Iraq) invades Kuwait
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MLK Jr.
-"I Have a Dream"
-26 yr old Baptist Pastor
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The Rosenbergs
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Dust Bowl
-Midwest
-Weather
-Over cultivation of land
-35 million acres of land useless (1934)
-Foreclosure
-Centered in panhandle
-Route 66
-Okies
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U-Boats
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Bataan Death March
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Gulf of Tonkin
-Congress gives Pres. Johnson EVERYTHING
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Watergate Scandal
-1972
-5 men break into the DNH
-Washington Post - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
-Investigation - cover up
-TV Hearings - shows evidence/misconduct
-(June) John Dean (AG) testifies Nixon involved
-(July) Butterfield testifies Nixon secret recordings
-Nixon denies tapes - refuses - Executive order
-(Oct) Spiro Agnew VP resigns (tax evasion)
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Malcolm X
-Violence=Progress
-Elijah Mohammed
-Black Muslims
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The Korean War
-Commie North
-Nationalist South
-(1950) NK invades SK
-UN led By America sends troops
-Inchon Landing
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Henry Ford
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Rugged Individualism
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October 29, 1929
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Germany (WWI)
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The Munich Pact
-Appeasement
-Gave Hitler land (Czechoslovakia)
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MacArthur Dismissal
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Birmingham Protests
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb
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Vietcong
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George W. Bush
-Tax cut
-Prescription Drug Benefit
-No Child Left Behind
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Christa McAuliffe
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Rosa Parks
-Montgomery Bus Boycott
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
-1962
-13 Stressful Days
-DEFCON 2
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The New Deal
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Operation Rolling Thunder
-1965
-Massive Bombing
-Targets North
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Mitchell Palmer
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D-Day
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Henry Kissinger
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Persian Gulf War
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9/11 Attacks
-8:48 AM plane hits north tower WTC
-9:03 AM second plane hits south tower WTC
-9:40 AM third plane hits Pentagon in DC
-4th plane did not hit as passengers overwhelmed terrorists
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Affirmative Action
-Programs to compensate for discrimination
-More racial diversity in schools and workplace
-SC ended it in 2023
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Marshall Plan
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The Bonus Army
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Adolf Hitler
-3rd Reich
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Pentagon Papers
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Battle of Midway
-Turning point in the war
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Herbert Hoover
