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16 Cards in this Set
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Levittown |
Levittown was one of the first suburbs in long Island. It was built on 1500 acres of patato fields and did not allow African American residents. Pg #973 |
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Federal Highway act of 1956 |
Measure that provided federal funding to build a nationwide system of interstate and defense highways. Pg #974 |
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Rebel without a cause |
A film used to suggest that parents can cause delinquency when they fail to conform to conventional roles. Pg #983 |
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Edward r morrow |
Edward R. Murrow KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He was generally referred to as Ed Murrow. Pg #985 |
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Jack kerouac |
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Pg #986 |
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Sputnik |
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. Pg #989 |
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NASA |
NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was started in 1958 as a part of the United States government. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space. Pg #989 |
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Suez crisis |
The Suez Crisis, also named the Tripartite Aggression and the Kadesh Operation or Sinai War, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. Pg #990 |
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Dien Bien Phu |
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. Pg #993 |
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New Frontier |
John F Kennedys domestic and foreign policy initiatives designed to reinvigorate sense of national purpose and energy. Pg #995 |
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Alliance for progress |
Program of economic aid to Latin American during the Kenedy administration. Pg #997 |
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Fidel Castro |
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Pg #998 |
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Bay of pigs |
Site incubator of an unsuccessful landing by 14000 anti Castro Cuban refugees in April 1961. Pg #998 |
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Cuban missile crisis |
Crisis between the so it union and the United states over the placement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Pg #998 |
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Cuban missile crisis |
Crisis between the so it union and the United states over the placement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Pg #998 |
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Great society |
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. Pg #1000 |
