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30 Cards in this Set
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1945-1965
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Baby Boom
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1975
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communist take over all of South Vietnam
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Jan 16-April 6,1991
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Operation Desert Storm
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Aug. 1990
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Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait
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1973
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Row vs. Wade decision
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Dec. 31,1999
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Panama Canal Zone is not US controlled
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Jan. 28, 1986
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Challenger blows up on take off
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1964-1968
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Vietnam War
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1964
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Civil Rights Act
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1950's
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black and white television
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1954
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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role of government in 1960
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provide for people
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role of NATO and SEATO
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stop communism
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result of introducing welfare into out country
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increased taxes
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made abortion legal
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Roe vs. Wade
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decision resulted in desegregation
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Board of Education vs. Brown
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What is SDI
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strategic defense initiative
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What is Strategic Defense Initiative
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Star Wars; a system of space-age weaponry designed to destroy enemy rockets
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Reagan Doctrine
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belief in stopping Communism before it could attack another country
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Reagan Revolution
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attempt to return America to the traditional values of church and family and free enterprise
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1st major league baseball player - black
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Jackie Robinson
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first president to resign
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Richard Nixon
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invented polio vaccine
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Dr. Jonas Salk
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devised New Frontier
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John F. Kennedy
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devised the Great Society
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President Lyndon B. Johnson
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pulled US out of Vietnam
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Richard Nixon
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invaded Kuwait
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George H.W. Bush
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civil rights activist
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Dr. Martin Luther King, JR
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covered up Watergate Affair
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Richard Nixon
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first woman Supreme Court Judge
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Sandra Day O'Conner
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