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Among the causes of the long postwar economic expansion were?
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military spending and cheap energy
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The regions that gaine the most population and new industry in the postwar economic expansion were
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The south and the WEST
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Among the federal policies that contributed to the postwar migration from the cities to the suburbrs were?
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housing-mortgage tax deductions and federally built highways
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High barrier between east and west erected during the 1961 Berlin Crisis
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Berlin Wall
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The primary reason that Franlin made concessions to Stalin at the yalta conference was that?
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he wanted the soviet union to enter the war against japan
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Before ww2, both the united states and the soviet union had?
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had been largely inward looking and isolated from international affairs
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the berlin crisis of 1948-1949 occured when
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soviet forces blocked the western allies rail and highway access to west berlin
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The truman doctrine originally developed because of the communist threat to
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turkey and greece
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The crusade of senator Joseph McCarthy was primarily detected against?
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alleged american communist influence inside the united states
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The Korean war broke out in 1950 when
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North korea invaded south korea
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The sector of the economy that grew most rapidly in the postwar era, surpasing the manufaturing and agricultural sectors
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service
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Big three wartime conference that later became the focus of charges that roosevelt had sold out eastern europe to the soviet communist
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Yalta
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The extended post world war 2 confrontation between the united states and the soviet union
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Cold War
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New international orginization that experienced some early success in diplomatic and cultural areas but failed in areas like atomic arms control
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United Nations
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Term for the barrier that stalin erected to block off soviet dominated nations from western europe
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Iron Curtain
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The new anti-soviet organization of western nations which ended the long time american tradition of not joining permanent military alliances
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NATO
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The Korean War ended with
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a stalemate armistice and constinued division of the north and south
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Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticomunist crusade finally collapsed with
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He attacked the US army for alleged communist influence
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The precipitating event of MLK civil rights movement was
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montgomery bus boycott
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the primary impetus for civil rights within the federal government came from?
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the supreme court
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MLK civil rights orginization, the SCLC, rested on the institutionals foundation of
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the black chruches
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Eisenhowers basic approach to domestic economic policy was?
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to trim back some New Deal programs but keep most in place
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The united states first became involved in vietname by?
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providing economic aid to the french colonialists fighting ho chi minh
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President eisenhower forced britain, France, and Isreal to withdraw from their seizure of the suez canal by 1956 by
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withholding american oil supplies from their allies
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Besides encouraging a space race, the soviet union's successful sputnik satellite led americans to?
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put anew emphasis on improving and funding education, especially in the sciences
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Senator JFK's main issue in the campaign of 1960 was that?
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the US had fallen behind the soviet union in prestige and power
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The industry that provoked a bitter conflict with President Kennedy over price increases was
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the steele industry
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The first major foreign policy disaster of the Kennedy administration came when?
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American backed cuban invaders were defeated at the bay of pigs
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The cuban missile crisis ended when
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the soviets agreed to pull all missisles in cuba and the united states agreed not to invade cuba
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The kennedy administration was pushed into a stronger stand on civil rights by?
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the civil rights movement led by the freedom riders and MLK
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President Johnson was more successful in pushing economic and civil rights measures through congress than President kennedy because
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the democrats gained overwhelming control of congress in the landslide of 1964
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Vietnam was not a major issue in the presidential election of 1968 partly because
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humphrey and nixon had few important differences on the war
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One of the dominant attitudes of the 1960's youth culture that had deep roots in american history was?
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distrust and hostility toward authority
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Kennedy administartion program that sent youthful american volunteers to work in undeveloped countries
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Peace corp
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high barrier between the east and the west erected during the 1961 berlin crisis
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Berlin wall
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