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30 Cards in this Set
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Cold War |
Era of confrontation and conflict between the US and the Soviet Union |
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Containment |
Policy aimed at limiting communism |
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Truman Doctrine |
US Foreign policy of giving aid to free people who were fighting take over |
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Alger Hiss |
US lawyer and diplomat who was accused of being a communist spy |
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McCarthyism |
Refers to the search for disloyalty or communist sympathies |
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Fallout Shelter |
A structure built to protect people from radiation |
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Baby Boom |
Refers to the increase in the American birthrate |
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Dr. Jonas Salk |
Person discovered a vaccine for polio in the early 1950s |
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Berlin Wall |
Structure built in 1961 that became tangible symbol of the cold war |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
Confrontation between the US, Soviet Union and Cuba |
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Fidel Castro |
Cuban dictator who acted with Soviets to allow nuclear missiles |
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Nikita Krushchev |
Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
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Brown vs Board of Education |
Supreme court case declared segregated public schools unconstitutional |
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Civil Rights Act 1964 |
Comprehensive collection of laws passed of laws passed to prevent racial discrimination |
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Massive Resistance |
Attitude of whites who collectively refused to accept the Supreme Court ruling |
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Domino Theory |
One asian nation fell to communism then the others would as well |
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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
Jungle paths that wound through Cambodia and Laos, along which the north Vietnamese |
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
President to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against |
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Tet Offensive |
Pivotal armed attack by the north Vietnamese on US bases in Vietnam despite being a military disaster |
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Kent State |
1970 incident where national guardsmen fired on students protesting |
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Roe vs Wade |
Supreme court case ruled that state governments could not regulate abortion |
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SALT 1 |
1973 plan between Nixon and Breshnev to limit nuclear arms |
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Watergate |
Scandal of Nixon administration resulting from an attempted cover-up |
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Love Canal |
Suffered serious health problems as a result of being built |
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Sandinistas |
Rebels who overthrew a pro american dictator and set up a socialist government |
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Reagan Doctrine |
Policy of the US that arrested that the US support guerilla |
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Yuppies |
Young Urban Professions who worked mostly in law or finance |
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Sandra Day O' Connor |
First American female supreme court justice |
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Sally Ride |
First female astronaut |
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Tiananmen square |
1989 incedent in Beijing China arose from students |
