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35 Cards in this Set
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Roosevelt's proposal, loaning munitions to Allies
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lend-lease
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first city for atomic bomb
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Hiroshima
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WWII: 100,000 Japanese
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interned
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economic instability, 1920s and 30s
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GREAT DEPRESSION
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Truman's motives, atomic bomb
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indimidate Japan and Soviet; end war; avoid firebombs and land invasion
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America united behind war, FDR
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
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Truman Doctrine
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after civil war in Greece; US should unilaterally aid democracies fighting communism; "contaiment;" all leftist insurgents linked to Russia
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Marshall Plan
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Secretary of State George Marshall; economy of Western Europe bred communism; US would aid post-war recovery financially
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white flight
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whites fled to suburbs after blacks flocked to cities
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war in Korea began
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Korea occupied by both Soviets and US; split into 2 states; North invaded South June 25, 1950; US asked UN to send peacekeeping force
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1949 military alliances, Western Europe with America
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NATO
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1951, Truman relieved ________ for insubordination
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GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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Bernard Baruch, plan for limiting atomic power
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full disclosure by UN; international authority; US destruction of its own weapons
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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Hiss-Chambers affair; Hollywood 10; Containment at Home; McCarthy
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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required Congress to yield its traditional war-making power to the president; US would aid those fighting communism
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Truman's loyalty program
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Ordered justice dept. to produce list of possible subversives in 1948; authorized dismissal
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Cuban military force, 1961, defeat
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Bay of Pigs
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After Cuban Missile Crisis
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JFK ordered Cuba quarantine
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overseas program, Americans work on projects
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Peace Corps
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JFK, Foreign policy
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raised defense budget; military assistance; propaganda; covert actin; Peace Corps; Alliance for Progressin Latin America
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Civil Rights Act, 1964
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; job discrimination; hotels and restaurants; by sex too
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declaration of war against North Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin
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North Vietnamese attack, 1968, destroyed myth of progress
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Tet Offensive
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War on Poverty
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medicare, medicaid, Model Cities, Food stamp, head start, Job Corps, Legal Services, Community Action Program; Dept' of Housing and Urban Development
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evaluate US success, Vietnam
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body count of enemy's dead
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Student dissidents, 1960s
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antiwar protests; racial violence
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Richard Nixton, detente
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as China and Soviets sought better relations with US, would have less focus on North Vietnam; allow US to pull out peacefully
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Nixon, Watergate
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initiated cover-up; released tampered tapes
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1968
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Tet Offensive; MLK and Robert Kennedy assasinations; Nixon won election
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Conservatives: US lost Vietnam
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lost "at home;" blamed media
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Containment policy
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linked leftist insurgencies to Moscow; loyalty program; HUAC; led to Korea and Vietnam
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Berlin blockade
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US, French, Britain: revitalize German economy; scared Russia; cut off all access to Berlin, in their "sphere;" airlifts by US for supplies; led to division of Berlin
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Brown v. Board
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legally enforced segregation of schools by race violated constitution; implied all public facilities
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New Frontier
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Kennedy's Platform: support antidiscrimination efforts; aggressive cold war policy; economic growth with tax cuts and cutting deficit
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Sit-in movement
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1960: black students in Greensboro sat down at lunch counter and demanded service; defied segregation laws and demanded equal service; restaurants, buses, train stations
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