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26 Cards in this Set
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McCarren-Walter Act
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end ban on immigration/citizenship
dicriminatory system |
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Truman's Loyalty Program
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investigate fed employees of communism
loyalty boards |
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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group that targets suspicious gov employees
own investigations |
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NSC 68
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secret document
military funding in cold war |
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Nikita Khrushchev
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moderate soviet Union leader
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John Foster Dulles
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says containment is immoral
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Ho Chi Minh
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vietnam communist
get independence by beating french adn japan |
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Ngo Din Diem
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U.S backed leader in S Vietnam
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Fidel Castro
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lead uprising in Cuba
side with Russia, nationalize land |
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Jacobo Arbenz
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Reform president of Guatemala
communist |
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Mohammed Mossadegh
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prime minister of Iran
nationalize oil refiners support from communists and capitalists |
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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leader of Egypt
communist, Suez Canal |
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William Levitt
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identical housing inventor
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Betty Friedan
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writes "Feminine Mystique"
women aren't subservient |
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Billy Graham
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spreads evangelism
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Alfred Kensey
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writes "Sexual Behavior of Male/Female"
homo, premarital sex, adultury is common |
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer
enforce separate but equal |
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Emmett Till
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black male killed for whistling at white woman
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E.D Nixon
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head of NAACP
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Jo Ann Robinson
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head of Women's Political Council
professor |
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Ella Baker
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women civil rights activist
runs for office in Atlanta |
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Interstate Highway and Defense system
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create national highway system
claim: need for defense |
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Indian Claims Commission
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pay as little as possible from N.A demands for money from land
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New Look
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Eisenhower policy
sell weapons, make money |
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brinksmanship
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go as far as possible with intimidation
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Mutually assured destruction
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soviets and the U.S don't back down
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