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25 Cards in this Set
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Election of 1948
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Harry Truman
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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miliraty hero, president of Columbia University, won presidental election of 1952
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Television
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in the late 1950's developers delevoped the technology for color television
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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ruled that communities could provide blacks with separate facilities as long as the facilities were equal to those of whites.
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Montgomery Bus boycott
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boycott of segregated buses; rosa parks was a big leader. they would walk or carpool to places they needed to go
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Levittown
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a housing development on Long Island near New York City. consisted of several thousand two-bedroom Cape Cod style houses, sold for under 10,000 dollars
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Fidel Castro
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in 1957, he resisted to the Batista regime and he marched into Havana and established a new government
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Election of 1960
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John F. Kennedy; he was for a "new frontier"
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John F. Kennedy
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his campaign was promising a set of domestic reforms more ambitious than any since the new deal
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Marshall Plan
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A plan to re-bulid Europe; brought in over 12 billion dollars into Europe
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Emmett Till
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A young black male that was brutally murdered; symbolized the mass of white upsets about desegragation
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Southern Christian Leadership confrence
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Martin Luther King was a major person in this organization;
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The bay of Pigs
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the failure of invasion of cuba
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Medgar Evans
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was a leader in the civil rights movement and was a strong person of self defense
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Black Panther Party for Self Defense
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created to protect african americans; was mostly in northern cities
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CREEP
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Committe to Re-elect the president
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Election of 1980
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Ronald Reagan became president
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Alphabet Soup Programs
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Relief, Recovery, Reform; these words became the caution and watch words to address fear
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ABC groups
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they revolutionized how the government would be from the 1940's on
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The Double "V" victory
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Asif Phillip Randolph ran this idea that ended racism at home and in the streets
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Joseph McCarthy
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developed a preoccupation to how we would respond to communism
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Jimmy Carter
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he ran a very 'grass-root' campaign because of the lack of political savey
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Richard M. NIxon
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Nixon said that this was a nation of laws. he thought laws were the most importatn thing to americans
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The Watergate Break-in
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some people from the CREEP were involved in the break in of the two offices of Democratic National Committee in the Watergate; they wanted to find a secret fund of the presidents
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Watergate 'Cover up'
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administration tried to manage the investigations of the watergate break in. there was no evidence that the president approved or planned the burglary before hand
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