Review Period 8 Flashcards

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List the cold war presidents in order (list the begingin year and end year)

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1945 Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan 1980

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Domest and Foreign signanfant thing Truman did

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Domestic: The Fair Deal expanded social security and new deal policies increased minimum wage,

Foreign: Truman Doctrine. A sort of containment policy aid to turkey and greece

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Domest and Foreign signanfant thing Eisenhower did and what year he was president

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1953-1961

Domestic: Interstate Highway Act that created 41,000 highways

Foreign: Eisenhower Doctrine, promised military aid to middle east in resisting communism

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Domest and Foreign signanfant thing JFK did

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1961-1963

Domestic: The New Frontier, civil rights, increased spending on the space race

foreign: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 standoff with the Soviet Union there were missiles in cuba but JFK built a naval blockade to ease tensions

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Domest and Foreign signanfant thing LBJ did

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DOmestic: Great Society Medicaid, Medicaire and the Civil Rights Act

Foreign: Drastically increased troop prescence in vietnam

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Domest and foreign signanfant thing Nixon did

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Domestic: Watergate scandal that brought up a cover up causing him to resign

Foreign: Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

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Domestic signanfant thing Ford did

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Domestic: Pardon of Nixon, lots of controversy

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Foreign signanfant thing Carter did

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Camp Davis Accords which had egypt recognize israel as a country

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Domest and Foreign signanfant thing Reagon did

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Domestic: Reagonomics which lowered tax’s on the wealthy to stimulate busines growth in combatting Stagflation

Foreign: Strategic Defense Initiative.

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two foreign ideals of communism and evidence of both of them and when

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rollback which was to fight back with the Korean War1950-1953 (they invaded north korea) and Bay of Pigs invasion 1961 (attempted to overthrow cuba, but failed)

Containment: Vietnam War, Marshall Plan(massive aid to western europe to strenghten democracy)

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List and describe two of the doctrines

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Truman Doctrine: a sense of containment which aided money to turkey and greece

Reagan Doctrine: simply aid to countries, but they had to fight their own wars (did not stay true with the Afghanistan War)

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List two classified documents being revealed and their significance

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Pumpkin Papers Alger Hiss Case which showed that Alger Hiss was a soviet spy which highly impacted the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Pentagon Papers top secret leak that showed secret bombings and increased military expansion. increasing distrust in government

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what was the biggest massacre of vietnam and whow as president of north vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

My Lai Massacre 1960

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List the 5 branches of the civil rights movements

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Womens Rights
Gay rights
African American Rights
American Indian Rights
Mexican Rights

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Three contributions during the womens movement

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Title IX
Equal Pay Act
Roe V. Wade

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Three contributions, one group during the african movement

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Civil Rights Act
Brown v. board of education of topeka and Little Rock Arkansas High School
the voting rights act
Black Panther group

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one event during the Gay movement

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Stonewall Riot riots against police at gay bars

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three event and the group name during the indian movement

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American Indian Movement

Occupied Wounded Knee to display their dedication

Indian Civil Rights Act
occupation of Alcatraz
Self-Determination Act (tribes control over eduaction and governance)

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one organization and its founder during the mexican movement

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United Farm Workers ran by Cesear Chavez

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Beliefs of the New Left

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Built new politics, social equity for all, radicalism, engaging in civil rights protest, denouncing middle class and accepting sex

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beliefs of the new right and things that happened from it

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The SageBrush Rebellion for state control of nationally owned lands to extract. They wanted to raise their kids away form crime and better education they formed christian coalition

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why did the second red scare sprout

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Russia developed the A- Bombs and china was overthrown, known as the Twin Shocks to get communists our of the country

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How did ____ war affect oil prices

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Yom Kippur War, OPEC prices did an embargo and then went 400% up

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did the cold war speed civil rights

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when was Reagan elected
1980
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biggest group for Africans
Congress of Racial equality
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biggest group for women
National Organization for Women
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What started the vietnam war (what was mean to be peace)
Geneva Accords which states north was communist and south was democratic but the democratic failed to host an election
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what was the moment when LBJ was allowed to take any measures
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution when an agressive attack on american ships
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what is the McCarren Interal Security Act
if you were a communist organization you had to tell the federal government and register as one
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what is the loyalty program
under truman, it stated that any federal employee suspect of communism could be fired
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give evidence that Evaluate the extent to which conservative movements in the 1970s were a reaction to liberal policies of the 1960s
Silent Majority (nixon) Rise of Evangelical Right (response to abortion and Roe V Wade) how it builds on the foundation of New Deal liberalism like FDR