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Test 3 Flashcards

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Battle of Iwo Jima

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Japan v America

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Battle of midway

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Pacific turning point

WWII

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Berlin airlift

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Supplies

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Bonus army

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Veterans to Washington for money

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Bretton Woods Agreement

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Monetary and financial agreement

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Camp David accords

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Agreement in Egypt

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CCC

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Work relief during Great Depression

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Cuban missile crisis

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Soviet Union and Cuba v America

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Dust bowl

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1930’s

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Fair labor standards act

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1938, 44 hours for seven day work week

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Freedom riders

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Rode busses to integrate terminals

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GI bill

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Money to veterans for education and housing

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Hollywood 10

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Blacklist

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Iran contra affair

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Money given under Reagan for weapons that ended up in wrong hands

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Jack ruby

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Killed lee Harvey Oswald

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Joseph McCarthy

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Wanted publicity

“Had blacklist”

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Killed JFK

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Manhattan project

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Atomic bomb creation

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Medger Evers

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Civil rights activist that was shot

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My lai massacre

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Massacre of innocent people in Vietnam that was covered up

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National industrial recovery act

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Raise prices to end depression

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North American trade agreement

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Canada, Mexico, and America

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Roe v wade

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Abortion case

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Social security act

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Established social security

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Spiro Agnew

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Vice President that was fired for bribery

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Taft-Hartley act

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Slave labor bill

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Tiananmen Square

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Protest in china

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Appeasement

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A political context, is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to a dictatorial power in order to avoid a threatened conflict

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightening strike attack

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Brain trust

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A group of close advisers to a political candidate or incumbent, prized for their expertise in particular fields

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Containment

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Policy uniting military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to contain soviet expansion

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Counter culture

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Go against mainstream culture

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Censure

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Public reprimanding of a public official for inappropriate conduct or voting behavior

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Depression

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A sustained long term downturn

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Détente

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The easing of tensions or strained relations

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Fascism

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One party rule, extreme nationalism, hostility to minority groups, and suppression of dissent

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Fundamentalism

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The demand for strict adherence to specific

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Andrew Johnson

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1865-1869
Reconstruction era
Jim Crow laws
Impeachment proceedings

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Ulysses S Grant

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Addition of Alaska

Joining of transcontinental railroad

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Rutherford b Hayes

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Pendleton civil service reform act
Coinage act
Great railroad strike

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James a Garfield

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Assassinated

Appoint Fredric Douglas to federal position

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Chester a Arthur

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Caretaker president,
rivers and harbors act
Immigration act 1882

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Grover Cleveland

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Served 2 terms

Interstate commerce commission

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Benjamin Harrison

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Annex Hawaii

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William Mckinley

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Dingley tariff
Gold standard act
Spanish American war

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Pure food and drug act
Conservationist
Help with panama revolution

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William h Taft

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16th amendment

Dollar diplomacy

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Woodrow Wilson

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Federal reserve act
Clayton antitrust act
WWI

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Warren g Harding

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Budgeting and accounting act
Washington naval conference
Teapot dome scandal

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Calvin Coolidge

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Farm relief bill
Kellogg Briand pact
Flood control act

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Herbert Hoover

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Stock market crash
Dust bowl
Great Depression

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Franklin d Roosevelt

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Fireside chats
Elected 4 times
New deal
WWII

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Harry s Truman

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Breton woods agreement
House un-American activities committee
Beginning Cold War

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Dwight d Eisenhower

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Brown v board of education
Begin arms race
Castro comes to power in Cuba

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JFK

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Establish peace treaty
Freedom riders
Cuban missile crisis

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Lyndon b Johnson

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The great society
Watts explosion
Tet offensive

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Gerald R Ford

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Final end of Vietnam war

Parson Nixon

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Jimmy carter

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Boycott Moscow Olympics

Airline deregulation act

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Ronald Reagan

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Iran contra affair
End of Cold War
Sound economic principles

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George H W Bush

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NAFTA

1st gulf war

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Bill Clinton

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Whitewater

Monica lewinski

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George w bush

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War on terrorism

Hurricane Katrina

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Barack Obama

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Health care reform

Gulf oil spill

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