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84 Cards in this Set
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Bay of Pigs |
Failed invasion in Cuba by US to overthrow Castro |
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JFK |
Cuba, Peace Corps, assassinated |
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bobby kennedy |
jfk's bro and attorney general |
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Berlin wall |
wall put up between east and west berlin. |
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Operation Mongoose |
US effort to eliminate Castro. |
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SNCC |
Black students fighting segregation. Sit ins and registration drives. |
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Selma |
large civil rights movements took place here. big march. |
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Freedom Riders |
mixed race group that rode bus around to promote equality. |
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James Meredith |
first African American to attend U of Mississippi |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
banned segregation, cut off federal funding for places that didn't apply. |
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Malcolm X |
nation of islam member, aggressive in his activism |
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voting rights act of 1965 |
helped black people vote in the south. |
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Ceasar Chavez |
latino civil rights activist |
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march on washington |
Civil Rights March, "I have a dream" speech |
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Lee Harvey Oswald |
shot jfk |
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Lyndon Johnson |
ran w jfk. pushed vietnam war more. |
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gulf of tonkin resolution |
congressional movement that let Lyndon B. Johnson to wage war in Vietnam |
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domino theory |
theory that if one asian country fell to communism, they all would |
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tet offensive |
military movement by the Vietcong against South Vietnam |
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Great Society |
LBJ domestic policies. eliminate racial injustice and poverty. |
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my lai |
massacre of innocent Vietnamese people by US army |
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Kent State |
protest of Vietnam war. four students killed. |
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Hippies |
wanted peace and love |
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War Powers Act |
restricted presidents authority to wage war |
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Woodstock |
rock concert that celebrated love and opposed the Vietnam war. |
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Apollo 11 |
landed on the mooooon` |
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charlie chaplin |
popular silent movie actor |
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scrap metal drives |
metal was needed for supplies so these were held |
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kamikazes |
Japanese suicide planes |
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baby boom |
after ww2 influx of babies |
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rock and roll |
this music signified teenage rebellion |
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sputnik |
russian satellite that terrified US |
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babe ruth |
baseball guy |
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sacco and vinzetti |
italian anarchists who were convicted of a crime they probably didn't commit |
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henry fird |
streamlined the automobile industry |
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Charles lindbergh |
first person to fly across the ocean |
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scoped trial |
can teachers teach evolution in schools |
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Japanese internment |
they were put into camps for "safety" |
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rationing |
people had to do this during the war to send food overseas |
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victory gardens |
people were urged to have these to make their own food |
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war bonds |
people bought these loans to the government to help finance the war |
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jazz age |
freedom and music in the 1920s |
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flaming youth |
rebellious teens in the 1920s |
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volstead act |
defined prohibition, |
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prohibition |
banned alcohol |
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Warren G Harding |
short administration that was full of scandals |
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ohio gang |
group of harding's political friend from Ohio, involved in a series of scandals |
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teapot dome scandal |
done by ohio gang, government usage of oil reserves in exchange for money and gifts |
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Herbert Hoover |
did not help much with the depression, hoover dam |
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FDR |
fireside chats, new deal |
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bank run |
peple take all their money out of the banks |
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bank holiday |
all the bank cloased and the good ones reopened |
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New Deal |
economic programs to help people during the great depression |
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Civilian Conservation Corps |
(CCC) provided jobs for young men |
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
(FDIC) insures bank deposits |
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Grapes of Wrath |
book about the conditions during the depressiona dn the treatment of people from oklahoma |
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Mussolini |
italian dictator/fascist |
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Stalin |
Russian communist dictator |
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Hitler |
German facist and awful person |
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Tojo |
Japanese emperor |
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Manhattan project |
the building of the atomic bomb |
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d day |
first day of ally invasion in france |
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GI Bill |
gave rights to veterans such as lower tuition and loans for housing |
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Berlin Airlift |
delivered supplies to west berlin |
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NATO |
allied countries in the north atlantic |
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McCarthyism |
accustations of communism without any solid evidence |
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Mccarthy |
Searched out communists and promoted the trials |
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Rosenbergs |
Actual communists who were giving secrets to Russia and were put to the electric chair |
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HUAC |
could investiate anyone who was suspected of un-american doings |
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Black lists |
people in hollywood who couldn't work because they were accused of being a communist |
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brown vs the board |
made education equal and desegregated |
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little rock 9 |
group of african americans to go to white school in arkansas |
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montgomery bus boycott |
fought for the desegregation of buses |
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Rosa Parks |
refused to move for a white person, started the bus boycott |
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MLK Jr. |
huge civil rights leader, "I have a dream" |
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watergate |
nixon's scandal that showed all his wrongdoings |
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plumbers |
nickname for the people who did nixon's dirty work |
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gerald ford |
pardoned nixon |
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jimmy carter |
camp david, iran hostage crisis |
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ronald reagan |
trickle down theory, iran contra affair |
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Bush Sr. |
Desert Storm, persian Gulf War |
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Clinton |
sex scandal, medicaid |
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NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement |
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Tim McVeigh |
Oklahoma City bombing |
