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26 Cards in this Set
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Neutrality Acts
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US Congress passed them to try to avoid another war. Put embargos on belligerent nations, prohibited us loans to any country at war. Cash and Carry. 1935
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Pearl Harbor
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December 7, 1941 Japan bombed us aircraft carrier fleet. Roosevelt claimed it to be a date that will live in infamy. Brought the US into WWII
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Korean War
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Cold War Conflict. USSR backed NK and US backed SK. Korea took advantage and it escalated into war. Truman sent troops to SK, brought NSC-68 to life
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McCarthyism
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Republican Senator from Wisconsin, during red scare accused Truman administration for employing communists. Making accusations without evidence.
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Betty Friedan
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Author of The Feminine Mystique and founder of National Organization for Women. Attempted to bring Women into mainstreem America in the 60s
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Soviets took missiles to Cuba to help Fidel Castro after US attempted to over throw. US agreed not to invade Cuba to remove missiles
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Suez Crisis
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Egypt was mad that US didn't help fund for Aswan High Dam. Egypt grew closer with Soviets, declared martial law on suez canal
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Kennedy's replacement. Closed the New Frontier to honor Kennedy. Civil Rights Act of 1964, job discrimination. Economic Opportunity Act, socieconomic inequality
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Great Society
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LBJ, Medicare, Medicaid, Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Counterculture
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Suggested we live our lives differently then the common ways. Rock and roll and drugs.
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Black Power
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African Americans, promote the black life style. Racial pride, the production of black political institutions.
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Richard Nixon
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Removed US from Veit Nam, initiated Detente.
Watergate Impeachment |
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Detente
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Easing of relations between US and Soviets. Richard Nixon, SALT.
Helsinki Agreement Halting production of nuclear weapons Prevented disaster |
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Ronald Reagan
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Reagenomics, lowering tax rates to increase spending, controlling money to reduce inflation,
INF treaty, decreasing nuclear weapons |
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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Reagan's crazy plan of a defense system that would protect US from missiles. Expensive plan, 26 billion. The plan might have been used to intimidate Soviets in race.
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Iran Contra Affair
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Political scandal in the US as Reagan administration was selling arms to Iran
Tried to free US hostages |
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Fair Deal
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Harry Truman, proposal for universal health insurance, aid to education, repeal taft harley act
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John Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs, Cold War, Assassinated
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Korematsu vs US
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Court Case on the Japanesse Internment Camps. Korematsu evaded the camps, camps ruled constitutional
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Operation OVERLORD
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Battle of Normandy. US stormed the beach of Normandy vs the Germans in WWII. D-Day. Significant victory for US, set tone
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Persian Gulf War
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UN Authorized invasion of Iraq after Iraq's annexation of Kuwait
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Phyllis Schlafly
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Eagle Forum, against Equal Right Movement. Wanted women to be able to stay at home and not work. Old School
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Rachel Carson
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Advancing Global Environment Movement
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SNCC
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Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Ella Baker, Shaw University. Sit ins, freedome rides
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Students for Democratic Society
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Student Activists group, in favor of New Left
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Truman Doctrine
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Supporting Greece and Turkey so they would not fail and fall into Soviet Sphere, start of Cold War
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