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Treaty of Paris |
A 1763 agreement between Britain and France that ended the French and Indian war. Peace treaty between the U.S and Britain. |
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Open Door policy |
Policy issued by the Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 that allowed a nation to trade in any other nation's sphere of influence. |
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Rough Riders |
Nickname for a military unit organized by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish American war. |
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USS Maine |
A boat that was sent to Havana to protect American Citizens and property |
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Cubans |
1898, A group of Cubans revolted to be free of Spanish rule. |
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Platt Agreement |
A amendment to the 1902 Cuban constitution that allowed the U.S to intervene in Cuba. |
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Dollor Diplomacy |
Predident Tafts policy of building strong economic ties to Latin America. |
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Yellow Journalism |
Nres reporting often biased or untrue, that relies on sensational stories and headlines |
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Bouns Army |
VEter who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of WWI bouns. |
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New Deal |
Program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to end the Great Depression. |
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Joseph McCarthy |
Had a list of 205 State Department employees who were communist. He wanted to take communist our of their life style. |
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N A T O |
The U.S joined with many other western European countries. The goal was to defend Western Europe against any soviet threat. |
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Baby Boom |
Large increase in the birth rate from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. |
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Berline Airlift |
American and British RElief effort to airlift supplies to west Berkiners from 1948- 1949. |
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Manhatton Project |
America was creating the Atomic Bomb. |
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John F. Kennedy |
Was the first Roman Catholic President. |
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Malcom X |
Said that African Americans could succeed only if they were separated from white society. |
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Gorge Marshall |
Was a Secretary of state. He made up the MArshall plan, Which provided more than 12 million aid to western European countries. |
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" A house divided against itself cannot stand" |
Abarham Licon |
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"I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal to the American people." |
FRankline D. Roosevelt |
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" We're here because first and foremost, we're American citizens and we are determined to acquire to the fullest of its meaning. We are tired, WE are tired of being segregated. Tired of being kicked of the final feet of oppression." |
Dr. Martin Luther King |
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" You have a row of dominoes set up. You knock one over the first stone and what will happen to the last stone that it will go over very quickly." |
President Truman ( If one country falls to communism more will fall too.) |
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" From situation in Baltic to Trieste in the Adras. An iron curtain has descendants across the continent." |
Wiston CHurch Hill |
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Who was in the New Deal? |
Democratic party organizations, big city machines, labor unions, minorities (racial, ethnic and religious, especially Blacks, Catholics and Jews), liberal farm groups,intellectuals, the Mountain West, and the white South. |
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Several______States to make a Confedoration. |
Slave states |
