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Cold war
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Conflict after WWII. A time of tension between the u.s and sovient union
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Sovient Union
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Communism, restricted rights, totalitarian Police state
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Policy of Containment
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u.s./west should prevent further expansion of communiwm(an attack on 1 is a considerd an attack to all)
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Berlin Airlift
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Russia closses off W. Berlin to the Western countries. In response the us flew in supplies to w. berlin until russia ended blockade (1 yr)
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Marshal Plan
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aid given to European countries to rebuild after wwII
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Truman Doctrine
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US will aid countries that are threated by communism. (in hopes to contain communisim)
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Domino Theory
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the belief that if one country falls to communsim other countries around it will also fall to communsim
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United Nations
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international organization formed in 1945 to help solve conflicts between nations and keep world peace (includes its own army to "assist" in conflicts) *us britain and russia have permanent seats
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Cause of Korea War
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Communsit North korea invaded south korea
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General Mac Arthur
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commanding gerneral in korea war, until removal of presidant Truman. Macarthur was an asshole
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impact of Korea war
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north Korea stayed communist and south korea stayed noncommunsit
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Cuban Missile Crisi
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u.s wanted the soviet nuclear weapons removed from cuba (90 miles from Florida) *john kennedy was presidant)
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Vietnam War
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u.s action to prevent comminsim to south korea, put the domino theory. Many Americans were against it
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Guerilla Warfare
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fighting who used hit and run attacks (used in vietname and U.S. revolutionary war)
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1950's
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growth of suburbs (levittown) interstate Highway System (Eisenhower) Baby boom. (1945-60)
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McCarthyisim
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overblow belief that U.S. infiltrated by comminsts
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Watergate Scandal
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Nixion's people tapped into democratic headquarters in watergate bldg. (he converd up evidence) made nixon resign
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End of Cold war
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fall of Berlin Wall, end of communsim in Russia and eventual breakup of soviet union into 15 separate countries
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Capitalism
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Main economic system in U.S (pirvate industry)
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inflation
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rise in prices decreased in value of money
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current american issues
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budget fecicit, pollution, war on terrorism, illegal immigration,decline in % of whites and rise in % of miniorties
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Transcontinental Railroad
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A railroad that spans the content
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Le Land Standford
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owned the central pacific railroad
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Chinese and Irish Workers
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Travled from homeland to america to serach for gold and work for the railroads
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Battle of Little big horn
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on June 1876
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Sodbusters
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Farmer on the great plains in the late 1800s
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Cattle Kingdom
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Region dominated by cattle industry and its ranches
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longhorn steer
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horns of longhorns could be six feet wide or more
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Vaquero
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spanish word for cowboy
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cattle trials
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herding and moving of cattle for long distances
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Homestead act
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160 acre plot for free, if you farm for 5 years
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Totalitarian state
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nation in wich a single party controls the goverment and every aspect og peoples lives
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Fair deal
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A program under Truman that called for new projects to create jobs, new public housing and an end to racial discrimination in hiring
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Trust
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group of corpoartions run by a single boared of directores
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Fascism
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political system based on militarism, extreme nationalism and blind loyality to the the state and its leader
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free enterprise
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economic system in which each privately owned business decides on what to do (no goverment)
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Frontier
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land that is unsetteld in u.s
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revenue
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the income from taxes licenses etc
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sphere of influence
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area of one nation where another nation had economic control
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spoils system
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act of replacing goverment officials with supporters of a newly elected president
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urbanization
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movement of large numbers of people from rural ares to cities
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womens right movement
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organized campaign to win property, education and other rights
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womens suffrage
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women to vote
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yellow journalism
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style of reporting away that disorts the truth
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affirmative action
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program to provide more job and education opportunities for people who faces discrimination in the past
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baby boom
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large increase in birth rate from 1940s'- 1960s
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bullying on margin
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borrowing money in order to buy stocks *one of the causes of great deppresion
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cqapitalism
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economic system in wich people put money or capitial, into business in order ti naje orofit *economic system in privatly owened business*
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civil disobedience
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idea based on nonviolence that people have a right to disobey a law they conider unjust
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containment
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america's method to limit soviet expansion during the cold war
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isolationism
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avoding invlolvement in other countries affairs.
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Little Rock
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high school in Arkansas, that had 9 black kids
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Guerilla Warfer
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hit and run tatics * in favor of people who the land
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Brown v Boared of education
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made the "separte but equal" unconsituional
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us efforts to stop communisim
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truamn doctrine/ marshal
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3 dictators in WWII
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Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin?
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first city to get atomic bombed
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Hiroshima
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This fire in a New York City factory led to the passage of laws to ensure safer working conditions
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What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
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type of warfare in WWII
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trench warfare
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President Woodrow Wilson’s goals for peace after WWI
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What are Wilson’s 14 Points?
*league of nations |
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quota system
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reduced the number of immigrants from certain countries
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effects on great depression
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high unemployment, soup kitchems, hoovervilles, bank closed, hoover was blamed
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foundation of capialisim
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land, labor, capital and investment
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assimilation
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process if becoming part of another culuter
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causes of great depression
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over production of consumer goods, buying on credit, stock market crash *black tuesday, poor banking syste, buying stocks on margin
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important muckrakers
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upton sinclair-author of the jungle, Ida tarbell- expose unfair practices by big oil, thomas nast-cartoonist
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date of pearl harbor
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dec 7, 1941
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date of d-day
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june 6, 1944
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world warII begins
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sept 1, 1039
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tycoons
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rockefeller (oil) caregie (steel) ford ( cars) vanderbilt (railroads
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spanish american war
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the u.s war to liberate cuba from spain
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inventors
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bell- telephone, edison-light bulb ford- assembly line
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appeasment
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giving intoagressive nations demands in order to preserve peace
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causes of WWII
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rise of dicatorrs due to econonmin deppresion (hitler, mussoni) failure of league of nations, failure of treaty of versailles, appesement
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causes of cold war
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russian take over of eastern europe. U.S. USS.R distrusted eachother
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what did americans due during cold war
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arms race, anti communsim/mcarthysim, SUPPORT FOR NON COMMUNISIM GOVERMENT abroad
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