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Impeachment
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the process used by a legislative body to bring charges against an elected official
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o Compromise of 1877
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an agreement used to settle election of 1876: democrats agreed to except republican Rutherford b, Hayes as presidents and republicans had to pull troops out of the south
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o Freedman’s bureau
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an agency established by congress in 1865to help poor people throughout the south
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John wilkes booth
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the assian that killed president lincoln
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Black Codes
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laws passed in the southern states during reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of the African Americans
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Ku Klux Klan
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a terrorist group in the south that terrorized the African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
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Civil rights act
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a law the that gave African Americans the same rights as white people
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Carpet Bagger
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a derogatory nick name given to northern republicans who cam to the south to help with the cleaning up during reconstruction
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Southern Homestead act
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a law that set 45 million acres of farmland for African American farmers
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solid south
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the name given to the south after reconstruction because it was so solidly democratic
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Dawes Act
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a act passed by congress that split up Indian land among individual Indians and promised them citizenship
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Laizzes Faire Capitalisim
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a business system were businesses are allowed to conduct business with out government interference
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chisholm trail
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a trail that ran from Texas to Kansas for cattle drivers
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Homestead Act
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a act passed by congress to encourage settlement in the west by giving government owned land to small business farmers
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Morill act
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a law passed buy congress where the government gave money to western states to encourage them to build colleges
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exoduster
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African Americans who settled western land in the late 1800’s
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Capitalisim
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an economic system were most of the businesses are privately owned
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Social darwinisim
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a society based on Charles Darwin’s theory of only the strong survive
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vertical intergration
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the business practice of owning all the businesses that supply them with supplies to make their products
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Horizontal intergration
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owning all the business in the same area dealing with the same item or business
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Sherman Anti Trust Act
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a law that made it illegal to create monopolies and truest
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Xenophobia
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fear of foriegners
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Knights of Labor
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the first national labor union in the united states
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Benevolent Society
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an aid organization set up by it’s community to help it’s immigrants
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Social Gospel
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the idea that the gospel should be expressed throughout good works
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Populist party
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-a political party formed in 1892 that supported the coinage of silver, work reforms, and immigration restrictions
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Gilded age
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1870's
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Graft
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elected officals who used the postions illegally to get bribes in exchange for jobs and contracts
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Muckrackers
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a term for journalist who raked up the filth of society
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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seperate but equal does not violate the fourteenth amendment
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19th amendment
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women's right to vote
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o Jim Crow law
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laws that enforced segregation in the south
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racial etiquette
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strict rules in that governed the social and business of white and black people
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Prohobtion
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a ban on anything that had to do with alcohol from 1920 to 1933
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Carry Nation
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little old lady went around destroying pubs and bars and stuff
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Square Deal
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Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 campaign slogan: that the needs of workers, business and consumers should be balanced
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Upton Sinclair
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wrote the jungle
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Reasons for U.S. Impearalisim
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everybody else is doing it, and trade
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Reasons for entering world war 1
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the sinking of the lusitania, public outrage, tired of staying neutral for so long
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woodrow wilsons 14 points
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1. covenants of peace
2.freedom of navigation of the seas 3.the removal of economic barriers 4.domestic safety 5.evacuation of all russian territory 6.belgium-evacuated and restored 7.a of france freed and restored 8.readjustment of the frontiers 9. people in austria and hungry should be safe 10. serbia should be evacuated 11.turkish portions of the ottoman empire remain sovreignty 13. poland 14, leauge of nations |
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Impearilisim
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the practice of extending a countries empire by obtaining foreign territories
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bayonet constitution
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a constitution the king of Hawaii wad forced to sign restricting and deprived the natives of Hawaii the right to vote
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sphere of influence
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an area were foreign countries control the trade or materials of another nation or area
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yellow journalisim
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the reporting of exaggerated in newspaper to increase sales
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de lome letter
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a letter written by the Spanish diplomat making fun of president McKinley which was published in a major newspaper.
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rough riders
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a cavalry regiment organized by Theodore Roosevelt
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battle of san juan hill
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battle in the Spanish American war for control of san Juan hill
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dollar dipolmacy
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taft’s policy of influencing Latin American through economy
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central powers
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- alliance between Germany, austria, and Hungary -- WW 1
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allied powers
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alliance between France, the united states and Russia
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U- boats
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alliance between France, the united states and Russia
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trench warfare
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- a form of warfare were soldiers dig trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire
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convoy system
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a technique to protect supply ships were they are surrounded by destroyers and cruisers
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communist
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people who seek equal distribution of the wealth and money and the end of all private property
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big four
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the name given to the leaders of the allied powers
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scopes trial
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teacher gets arrested for teaching evolution in the classroom gets arrested but later decision gets overthrown because judge made illegal moves
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harlem renissance
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blossoming of African American arts and music in the 1920’s
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flappers
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a young women in the 1920’s who had bobbed hair, wore make up, wore skimp and flashy clothes and lived a free lifestyle
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Cause of the great depression
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buying on margin
the stock market crash |
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the new deal
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FDR's plan to help the untied states recover from the great depression
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palmer raids
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a series of government attacks on suspected radicals led by U.S attorney general Mitchell A. Palmer
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anarchist
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radicals who believe in the destruction of the government
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producativity
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- amount of product or material a machine makes
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suburb
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-“ sub – urban” a smaller town situated outside of a much larger town
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installment buying
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paying for a bunch of items of a period of time with a bunch of smaller payments
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speakeasy
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illegal bars were alcohol were sold during prohibition
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buying on margin
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-buying stocks with loans from brokers
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black tuesday
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- the day the stock market crashed beginning the great depression
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Hobo
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a homeless person normally one traveling in looking for a job
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Foreclosure
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when a lender takes over the ownership a property were the owner has failed to pay for it
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Drought
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no rain
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o Associative state
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Hoover’s vision for partnerships between business associations and the government.
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o Smoot Hawrely Tariff
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an extremely high tariff on farm and manufactured goods
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o Fireside chat
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conversational radio chats given FDR
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o New Deal
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a plan by fdr to give the country recovery relief an reform after the great depression
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social security
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a system to provided pensions for Americans of 65
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sit down stirkes
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-a strike were workers refuse to leave workplace until dispute is settled
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o Executive order 9906-
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a law that gave the army to make protection zones and gave them permission to kick people out of the protection zones.
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o Lend-lease
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gave the government power to lend weapons to great Britain with outs regardless whether they can pay or not
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Manhattan project
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the building the atomic bombs in new Mexico
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code talkers
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Navajos who worked for the Americans translating important army messages into the Navajo language
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dictatorship
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a government held by a leader or group that holds unchanging powers and authority
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o Adolph Hitler
o Francisco Franco o Joseph Stalin o Hailer selassie |
communist dictators
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Blitzkrieg
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a German word meaning lightning wars.
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Vichy France
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a French government set up with the Germans
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Pacifist
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someone who does not believe in or taking part in violence
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Neutrality act
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an act aimed at helping the united states stay out of the war
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Rosie the Riveter
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a popular symbol to represent the working women in ww2
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D-Day
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the devastating invasion of Normandy, France
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Operation Overlord
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the code names for the allied invasion of Europe starting with d-day
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tuskegee airmen
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a unit of African American airmen in ww2
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concentration camps
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detention site created by the government to keep, terrorize, and sometimes even kill civilians
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Ghetto
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an area where people from a certain ethnic background live as a group
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war refugee board
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a group created by FDR that helped over 20,00 Jews who would have died at the hands of the Nazis
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holocaust
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the killing of millions of Jews and other in Nazi Germany
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the final soloution
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the Nazi party’s idea to kill all the Jews in the entire area of Europe and the soviet union
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o Kamikaze
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in world war 2 a pilot who agreed to load his plane with bombs and crash it into enemy ships
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Bataan Death March
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forced march of the American and fillipino prisoners in the of war captured by the Japanese during world war
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Rationing
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limiting the amount of product each individual gets
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potsdam conference
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meeting of the allies near the end of world war 2
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Island hopping
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fighting and flying from island to island in ww2
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Truman Doctrine
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Trumans pledge to provide economic support to the countries who where terrorized by communisim
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Marshall Plan
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The plan to reconstruct Europe after world wars one and2 as metioned by George C. marshall
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McCarthyisim
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the fear of communisim speard around by senator joe mcarthy in the 1950's
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Levitttown
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the first original suburb
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Sputnik
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russian satalite that cause a lot of fear in the united states
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Korea/ Macarthur
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Macarthur said to nuke korea which cause him to get fired
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Planned obsolesence
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making it so when people will buy a product they will always have to buy the newer one
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Iron Curtain
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a term by winston churchill that drew a imginary wall built by communist soviet union and that seperates them from the rest of western europe.
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Berlin airlift
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berlin was blocked off from supplies on the ground so the united states and england flew supplies and landed inside berlin
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GI Bill
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a bill that gave veterans money for college or advanced job training
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Fair deal
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a plan proposed by president truman that had many of the same programs as the new deal
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Mao Zedong
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Vietnamese communist
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alger hiss
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arrested and executed for apprentley telling the secrets of the manhattan project to germans
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Hollywood Ten
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hollywood writers and directers named as radicals and served short sentences in prison
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38th parallel
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the pre korean war boundrays between north and south korea.
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Inchun
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a major battle in the korean war
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o Panmonjum
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a major battle in the korean war
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CIA
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Central Intelligence agency
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warsaw pact
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a military allience in 1955 of the soviet dominated eupropean countries
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Eisenhower doctrine
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declared the right of the united states to help on request any nation in the middle east trying to resist armed communist agression.
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summit
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a meeting of the heads of goverments.
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Hydrogen Bomb
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a nuclear weapon that gets it power from the fusing of hydrogen atoms
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Nasa
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Space organzation
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Transistor
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small electric devices that can be found in computers and other machines
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Vaccine
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a shot
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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confrontation between the untied states and the soviet union about some soviet missles in cuba
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Genetic enginerring
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artificial modification of genes or genetic material
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Hurricane Katrina
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a masive hurricane that struck the gulf coast in 2005
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Patriot Act
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a law that makes it easier for the FBI to get information on suspected terrorist
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Contract with america
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making sure that americans have rights
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Operation dessert Strom
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a U.S. leaded war end iraq's control of kuwait
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o Perestroika
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russain word for reconstructing
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o Glasnost
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opening - refrences a new era of media in russia
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Iran Contra affair-
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the us sold weapons to iran which they a re know using against us
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budget deficit
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debt in the budget
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yuppies
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young urban professionals
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Camp David Accords
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a peace meeting between the U.S.A, Egypt, isreal
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Saturday Night Massacre
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nixon told attorney general to frie special prosceuter and then attorney general quit
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watergate scandal
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a politcal scandal that resulted in president nixon's eventual resignation in 1974
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pop art
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a style of art in the 1950's and 60's to appeal to popular taste
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Flower children
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a slang term for hippies
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Free speech Movement
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counterculture movment in 1960's
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social justice
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the fari distribution of rights and disadventages living in society
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Feminisim
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the principle that women should have the same rights as men
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pentagon papers
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papers found by journalist that helped let the american public know they had been lied to
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My Lai Massacare
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a massacre that happended on vietnamese new year
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counterculture
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hippies
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Betty Friedman
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wrote the feminine mystique
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26th amendment
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lowered the voting age to 18
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silent majority
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working class that didn't like the hippies
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freedom riders
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people who rode buses throughout the south to protest segregation
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little rock nine
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the first african american children who went to an all white school
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new frontier
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space
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SDI
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a satalite made to destroy enemy missles
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