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49 Cards in this Set
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Veto of farm legislation
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McNary-Haugen bill
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Dawes Plan
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Coolidge – plan to collect war debts
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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62 nations “outlaw” war
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National Origins Act
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Discriminates against Southern and Eastern Europe
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Lindberg flight
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New York to Paris, non-stop
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Stock market crash
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October, 1929
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Aids business in the Great Depression
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Highest tariff in U.S. history
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Wikersham Commission
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Studies Prohibition
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Young Plan
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Hoover – plan to collect war debts
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London Economic Conference
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International approach to world-wide depression
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Bank holiday
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Emergency banking act
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Securities Exchange Commission
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Regulates stock market
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National Recovery Administration
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Blue Eagle shot down by court
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Works Progress Administration
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Harry Hopkins – relief
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Public Works Administration
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Harold Ickes
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Relief for youth and conservation
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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Electricity and conservation measures for 7 states
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Wealth Tax Act
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New Deal answer to Huey Long
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Federal Deposit Ins. Corp.
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Insured private savings
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Federal Communications Comm.
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Regulates radio and TV
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Social Security Act
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New deal Answer to Townsend
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Established minimum wage
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Destroys crops, provides
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New Deal
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FDR’s slogan
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Neutrality Acts
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Isolationist legislation 1937
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Lend-Lease
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Arms for Britain and USSR
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Arsenal of Democracy
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Speech that gave impetus to Lend Lease
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Atlantic Charter
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War aims
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United Nations
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89 to 2
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Manhattan Project
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Atomic bomb
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National Security Council & CIA
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Foreign policy agencies
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22nd Amendment
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Limits Presidential terms
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Provides for right to work laws
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Truman Doctrine
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$400 million to Greece & Turkey
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Marshall Plan
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$12.5 billion for European recovery
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Berlin Airlift
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Air cargo to West Berlin
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Point IV
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Assistance to underdeveloped nations
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NATO
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Free world defense shield
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Korean police action
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MacArthur and Ridgeway
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Fair Deal
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Truman’s slogan
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Containment
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George Kennan
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St. Lawrence Seaway
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Connects great Lakes with the Atlantic
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Federal Highway Project
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Largest public works project in U.S. history
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SEATO
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Ike’s containment – 1954
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ANZUS Pact
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Australia, New Zealand, U.S.
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Dynamic Conservatism
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Eisenhower’s slogan
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U2 incident
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Francis Gary Powers
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Open skies
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Mutual surveillance
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