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108 Cards in this Set
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Joesph McCarthy-
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Republican senator form wisconsin
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lika
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dog that went into space
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Earl Warrner
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1st black to sit on the supreme court
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lbj wanted to tackle what two ares
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medicial aid education
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vocie of NAACP
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Thurgood Marshall
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european leader who died. who replaced him
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stalin , khrushchev
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southern manifesto
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100 ppl from the congress signed paper saying they would do anyhting to keep schools from being integrated
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Brown vs board of education
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schools had to be integrated
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CIA
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central intellagence agencies
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rosa parks
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took a seat in the front row section of the bus she refused to give her seat up to a white man she was arrested
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little rock
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arkansas first school that tgreid integration
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sputnik
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satillete that openede space age
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what was the red scare
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truman suspected that communists were trying to take over the us
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purpose of the RAFS
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destroy cities, disorganzie labor destroy morals
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leader if egypt-
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gamal abdel
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robert goddard
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anythign could fly high we can fly into space
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who were apart of the big 5
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us britian france Soviet Union China
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Alger Hiss
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provided classified documents which had been photographed by comunists, was convicted of perjury
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dixicrats presiodential canidate
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thumond
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NATO
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North atlantic treaty organization, first peactime we had ever joined
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HUAC
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House Un-American Activities committe helped with public hearings
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LBJ called the horse trader
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he would negotiate
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LBJ said Americans were the
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great society
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38th parellel
america liberate where after wwII |
divided korea, south korea
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steveson promised to attack what 3 area
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war poverty tyranny
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why did truman dismiss general McCather
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insobordination he wanted to take on the china, back home he was treated like a hero
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VISTA
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volunteers in service to AMerica peace corp the help provide service to poor people
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EEOC
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equal emplyoment opportunity act foight war on pverty job work
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
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jewish whit amercaon passed keyt secerts about he atomic bomb to russia
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civil rights act
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forbade racial discrimminationin the usse of federal funds punlic places...
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LBJ defeated
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barry goldwater
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Wilderness Act
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set aside 9 million acers of national forest
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peace corp
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voulteers who went to aid people on foregin countries
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Ralph Nada
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wrote about unsafe automobiles
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Medicare
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citizens over 65 were offered this low cost hosputlaization increase in theis social security
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the 17th parallel separted n/s vietnam
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17th parelle
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what advantage did eisenhawer have in the election
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he was as war hero
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Medicade
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offered federal grants help n eedy beloew ages of 65
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topic of the 22nd amendment
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limited presisdent to 2 terms
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Rachel Carson
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disacovered pesticides were bad for the enviromnet
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LBJ vp
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Humphery
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Malcom X
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from jail member of colt hated whits said they were the devil said they should be separated
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black slogan
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black p ower
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german jew who lost his citizenshiop
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eisnstein
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purpose of the RAFS
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destroy cities, disorganzie labor destroy morals
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Summmer Freedom Project
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Aimed to get blacks to vote
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the march form
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Selma to montgomery promoted voters to vote
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Alfred Noble
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founder of the noble peace prize felt bad because he invented dynamite which killed plll so he gave prize to ppl who kept peazce
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Dorie Miller
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grabbed a machine gun and shoot down several planes
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ICBMS
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Intercontinential ballistics missiles
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when was the berlin wall built
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1961
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LBJ's credibilty gap
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refused to admit there had been a shirt in the is policy gap between what the pres wantede ppl to belioeve and what was credible
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How did stalin go against the yalta conference
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he said there would be free elections in poland but instead he forced communism
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Charlees Drew
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develloped the blood banlk
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director of the cia
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allen dulles
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Gulf of Tonkin
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2 us destroyers were attacked by n. vietnamease gunboats
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Seato
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South east asia treaty organization
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communists viet. leader
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ho chi min
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gop
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grand old party
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Bay of Pigs
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tried to overthrow castro all got caprutre s and had to pay 50 milion to escape
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jek cabinet membera
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state, dean rusk, defense- Mcnamara Attorney General- Robert Kennedy
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pulizer prize book name
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profiles in courage
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JFK's vp
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johnson
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Iks's sec. of state
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john Dulles
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Geroge Marshall
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Trumans sec. of state
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places that were aided by the mediterranian sea
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turkey greece
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north vietnamse soilders called
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vietcong
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PLessy vs Fergusion
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blacks and whites coujld be segragated but they had to be seprated equally
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2 problems that faced peactime america after wwII
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inflation unemployoment
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Cuban Missle crisisq
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who meet at the yalta conference
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roos stalin church
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Alan Shepard
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flew 115 miles into the sky
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sept 2
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V-j day ended wwII
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now this is not the end the end
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churchill
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landmark that divied east and west berlin
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brandenburg gate
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2 problems that faced peactime america after wwII
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inflation unemployoment
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Marsahll Plan
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plan to clean up europe after wwII
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Watts is located in
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LA
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Yuri Gargain
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first russin in space
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James Meredith
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a black kid who coiuld not get into and all white college
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Taft
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Mr. Republican
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takin japen after guadcanal
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doug McCarther
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AMA
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American Medical Association
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Ross Barnett
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casue of him not going to college
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u-2's
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us spy plane tha flew high
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AEC
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Atomic Energy Commission
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truman persuade congress into the
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faie deal
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freedom riders
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blacks and whites from the north and wsouthwho protested segration of busses
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D-Day
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June 6 1944 frnace
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Taft- Hartley Act
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outlawed closed shops
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24ht Amendment
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polltax
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who ass. JKF who ass. the,m
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lee harvey oss, jack ruby
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where and what did kings speech
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i have a dream washinton dcat the linclon memorial
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Joe McCarthy's take on democracy
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"twenty years of treason"
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conelley
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goverener of texas
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Jimmy doolitte
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lead the u-2s launched from acarrier to attack tokyo
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HEW
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Health Educationa and welfare
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dixicrats presiodential canidate
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thumond
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what were war criminals
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people who had commited crimews during the war they were put on trial
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Erwin Rommel
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dessert foxshewrd darin commander know as Afrika corp
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442nd reg
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japs who fouhtin itlay
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exc. order 8802
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outlawed any discriminationon the basis or race...
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what was the Presidential Succession Act of 1947
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changed to order of who would go into office after the president
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Rosie Riveteran
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inspiration to all workin women to vote
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Bernard Montgomerey
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lead 8th army to war
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George wallace
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governerdid not want integration in school
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democrats also known as
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dixicrats
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first commander of NATO
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Eisnehawer
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