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72 Cards in this Set
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What did MacArthur suggest the US do in the Korean war?
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Attack China
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What was the first priority of the Berlin Airlift
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Get food and supplies into west Berlin in Soviet Blockade 1948
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Why did the US rush to develop a Hydrogen bomb
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race with Soviet union
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Where did the Eisenhower Doctrine deal directly with
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the middle east
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Eastern Europ- immediatly following WWII
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Soviet troops occupied Eastern Europe
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Why did Eisenhower fire Mac Arthur
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sent letter of disapproval
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McCarthys final straw
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bullied witnesses of US army
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Containment - What was it
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stopping the spread of communism
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Korea after the war
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nothing changed
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President that integrated African Americans into armed forces
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truman
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THe Iron Curtain what was is
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zone of communism, seperated east and western Europe
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NATO - What did it involve
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ten western European countries, the US and Canada
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CIA responsible during the Cold War
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gather secret information of foreign governments
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Truman's fair deal -What all was passed
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domestic reform to solve America's economic problems
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Population shift in 1950's - from where to where
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cities to suburbs
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Baby Boom size of -What contributed to it
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Soldiers returning from war
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Know what planned obsolescence is and why it was used
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marketing strategy, made objects appear obsolete
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Who were the main players in the Beat movement
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Poets, hippies
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Who developed the Polio Vaccine
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Dr. Johas Salk
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Eisenhower's Native American policy
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Assmiliation policy - breaking up reserves
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Franchise- what are they - Who were big franchises
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company that sells goods of services, McDonalds
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What is the definition of a conglomerate
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Major corporation that inculdes smaller companies
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Housing industry - Main trend in the 1950s
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Levittowns
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1950s Rock and Roll - How it was viewed by adults
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corrupting the minds of children
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What is the definition of consumerism
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they buying of material goods
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Agency that regulated TV, RADIO Ect
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FCC
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Separate but Equal - Supreme court case
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States could prohibit the use of public facilities by African Americans, Plessy Vs Ferguson
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What case overturned the "separate but equal" case
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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MLK Jr, - president of what organization
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American Civil Rights Movement
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Freedom Rides - WHat were their main goals
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Rode busses to protest segregation
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Eisenhower's response to Little Rock
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Sent National Guard to protect the African American Students
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Malcolm X's beliefs on whites participating in the civil rights movement
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Whites could help but could not join
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Montgomery Bus Boycott - Biggest immediate effect
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Desegregation of busses
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Freedom Summer - major event of it
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One black and two white men killed, while getting blacks to vote
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 - What was it's main purpose
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Ensure vothing rights of African Americans
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Nixon loses TV debates with Kennedy- Why
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Nixon refused to wear makeup
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Kennedy's New Frontier program - What did it accomplish
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Increased minimum wage, No social security
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CIA backed attempt to overthrow Castro
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Bay of Pigs
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Warren Commission findings of JFK assassination
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Oswald acted alone, magic bullet theory
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Final compromise in the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nikita Khrushchev said installations would be dismantled
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Vietcong - Where were they from and who did they fight againts
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North Vietnam. those who did not support communism
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Diem - Why did Kennedy remove him from power in Vietnam
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No sympathy towars buddist monks
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Vietnam in the 1940s (which countries controlled it)
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France and Japan
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US' main goal in Vietnam
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to rid communism
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Turning [oint in the Vietnam War back in the US
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My Lai Massacre
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What ended Freach rule in Vietnam (treaty)
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The Geneva Accords
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Gave LBJ power to go to war in Vietnam
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The Golf of Tonkin resolution
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Domino THeory
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One country falls to communism more will follow
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Doves - What did they believe
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peace not war, did not like Johnson
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Communist leader of Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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Major college campus demonstrations
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Kent State
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Gasoline based bombs used in Vietnam
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Napalm
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Reason for struggle of US troops in Vietnam
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Vietnamese camouflaged, tunnels, troops did not know the sode from side
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Reasons for avoideing the war
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College, medical reasons, religious beliefs
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My Lai Massacre
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100 innocent killed in village
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Cesar Chavez organized which group of Americans
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United Farm Workers, Latinos
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By the 1970s NOW supported what
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Same wages for men and women
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Why was the counter culture weak
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People grew older and more moderate
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1st president to visit post WWII USSR
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Nixon
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Intentions of Watergate break in
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Get democrat campaign information
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Nixon's role in Watergate
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His aid spied on democratic headquarters
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US Economy by 1970s - Main dependency
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Foreign oil
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Energy Crisis - main contributer
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OPEC, broke off oil trade with US
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Ford's loss in election 1976
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Could not shake the republican embarrassment of Watergate
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Camp David Accords - countries involved
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Egypt, Isreal and America
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Supply - side economics means what
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Increase production rather than focusing on increasing demand
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Reagan's foreign policy
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fought with soviets in an arms race
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Reagan's view on USSR military spending
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could not outspend the US
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What was SDI (strategic Defense Initiative)
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"star wars" protection from strategic nuclear ballistic missiles
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Election of 1988 - Who ran?
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George Buch, Micheal Dukakis
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George H. Bush - Persian Golf War
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Remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait
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Bill Clinton's legacy as president
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Monica Lewinsky
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