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29 Cards in this Set
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The first president to discuss the "domino theory"
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Joseph McCarthy
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This person led the senate hearings investigating suspected Communists
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Douglas MacArthur
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The leader of the United Nations peacekeeping troops in the Korean War; fired by Truman
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Betty Friedan
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Author of Feminine Mystique; The leader of the ERA movement in the 1970s
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Gloria Stienham
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Feminist journalist of the 1970s; The founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and Ms. Magazine
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William Levitt
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The person responsible for the mass production of homes in the 1950s; This person made housing affordable
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Jonas Salk
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A doctor who developed a vaccine for the disease poliomyelitis
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Rosa Parks
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This person refused to move from a "Whites Only" bus seat; Led to the Civil Rights Movement
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John F. Kennedy
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This president was elected because of the televised debates; This person started the Peace Corps and NASA
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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This person started the Great Society and the War on Poverty
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Associated greatly with the Birmingham Bus Boycott and the March on Washington; This person won a Nobel Prize and was assassinated
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Jackie Robinson
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The first African American professional baseball player
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United Nations
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An organization that meets in New York; designed to keep world peace
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Baby Boom
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The population explosion after WWII in the 1940s and the 1950s
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Warsaw Pact
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An alliance of the Communist countries of Europe and Asia
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Red Scare
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A period of fear and paranoia of Communist takeover in the United States
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Cold War
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A global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States from 1950 to 1990
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Suburbanization
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A Post-WWII movement out of inner cities caused by the use of cars and highways
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Black Power
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A militant Civil Rights movement with leaders like Malcolm X
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Affirmative Action
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The practice of requiring employers to hire a minimum number of minorities
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Brown vs. The Board of Education
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A Supreme Court case that overturned Plessy; separate facilities are NOT equal; rules on 14th amendment;
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Sputnik
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A Soviet satellite; first to circle the Earth; increased math/science in US schools
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March on Washington
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This was when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a Dream" speech calling for Civil Rights legislation
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The Great Society
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Lyndon Johnson's domestic plan to end poverty and promote Civil Rights
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
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A law that outlawed segregation during the 1960s
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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A law that outlawed literacy tests used to discriminate against black voters
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Medicare
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A plan to provide medical treatment and hospitalization for people over 65
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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A resolution made after an United States ship was sunk by the Northern Vietnamese; escalated the war in Vietnam
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My Lai Massacre
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A massacre of innocent women and children in Vietnamese villages; This outraged the United States public
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