Module 12 Flashcards

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When he left office, president eisenhower warned americans about the potential danger of

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the growing alliance between business and government in the US

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Whar event provided president eisenhower the oprotunity to speak out about toning down the rivalry with the soviet union

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The death of stalin

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Which of the following became a symboyl of “conformity during the 1950’s

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suburbs

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4
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What was sputnik

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The first manmade sattelite in space

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5
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The popularity in the 1950s of suburban living in the us is partially exampined by

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Supreme courts decision in brown v. board of education (1914) school deseggrigation case was fundamentally based on the assumption that

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seggregated schools were unherently unequal

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7
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election of 1952 saw

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television play a role in the campaign

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8
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In 1954, the eisenhower administration orderd the CIA to help overthrow the government of

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Guatemala

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What topic dominated talks between th US and USSR in the 1950s

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reducing neulear weapons

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10
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Between 1945 and 1959, us policy in the middle east saw

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the CIA enfineer a coup that brought the shah of iran to power

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