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83 Cards in this Set
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Women's role after the war
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back to homemaking
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Results of the Korean War
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S.K. democrati, NK communist
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Reason for aid to France in Vietnam
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To stop communism
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Reason for NATO
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Military alliance to balance USSR
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Who divided Korea after WW2
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US & USSR
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Draft questions durring Vietnam
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Some groups (colleges) receieved deferments
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Reason for Kent State protest
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Invasion of Cambodia
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Results of Watergate
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Nixon resigns
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Who made up the Bonus Army
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1932 unemployed veterans
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What is cash and carry
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Give aid to allies and not pset isolationists
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What officially started WW2
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Germany attacked Poland
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Hitler's military mistake was
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Attacking USSR
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How did Am. finance WW2
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bonds, borrow, income tax
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What was the Marshall Plan
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Help Europe recover from the war
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What is containment
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Stop spread of communism
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What is Iron Curtain
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Divided E/W Europe
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What caused the growth of the suburbs
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baby boom, cheap housing, GI Bill
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Effects of voting rights act 1965
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More African Americans elected to office
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Tactics of the Viet Cong
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Guerilla warfare
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What is Agent Orange
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Kills foilage
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What is saturation bombing
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Used against N. Vietnamese
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What is the 26th Amendment
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18 yr. old vote
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How did Ford gain the White House
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never elected
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What is 3 mile island
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Raised nuclear concerns
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what is stagflation
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rising inflation and unemployment
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causes of Great Depression
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uneven wealth distribution
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depression's effect on minorities
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lost jobs to white males and accused of taking jobs
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Pres. Hoover's Depression policy
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encouraged voluntary controls
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Who is Francis Perkins
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1st cabinet member female
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Name some legacies of the New Deal
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funding of arts/ stronger unions/ federal debt
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Reforms of Social Securtiy for women
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Ended discrimination against woman
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List New Deal programs still functioning today
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TVA/ FDIC/ S&EC/
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Common Traits of Central Powers
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Fascist gov.
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Why did the US enter WW2
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Pearl Harbor
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who did the allies attack first
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Germany
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What is the Holocaust
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Extermination of 6 mil Jews
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Women's military role in WW2
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No combat (nurses, pilots, secretaries)
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How were minorities treated by the US army
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segregated
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What is island hopping
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allied strategy for Japan
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purpose of rationing
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keep inflation down
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what ended WW2
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dropping of atomic bomb
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what are internment camps/reasons
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unlawful Japanese detainment camps/ stop sabotage
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reasons for the arms race
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nuclear technology (bomb)
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what was sen Joe McCarthy fighting against
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communism
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Reason for economic growth in the 50's
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baby boom, expansion, credit
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Eisenhower favored this group
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big business
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Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr.
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people
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brown v. Bd. of Education decision
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ended segregation in schools
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effects of sputnik
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americans questioned use of technology
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characteristics of the election of 1960
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close election, image, t.v., debate, Catholic
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Reason for bay of pigs invason
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get rid of Castro
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reason for berlin blockade
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kennedy's military build up
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purpose of peace corp
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help developing nations
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kennedy's strategy for cuban missile crisis
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blockade
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what was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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President's war power w/o Congress approval
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Effects of the Arab oil Embargo
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energy crisis 73/74
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SCLS strategy
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non violent
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what was the main protest of Am. soldiers frustration in Vietnam
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no clear winning strategy
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T.V.'s effect durring Vietnam
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Americans saw conflict everyday
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What are hoovervilles
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shantytowns
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what is 20th amendment
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lame duck
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what is the brain trust
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FDR cabinet
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audience of fireside chats
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public average americans
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what is 21st amendment
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ended prohibition
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FDR's 3 R's
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reform, relief, recovery
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John Maynard Keynes economic strategy
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defecit spending
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How did Roosevelt loose support
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his plan to add members and get New Deal programs declared Constitutional
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what is appeasement
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giving into Hitler's demands
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Reason for D Day
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defeat/ invade germany
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turning point of WW2
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stalingrad
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importance of midway
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pacific advantage
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provisions of the Atlantic Charter
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security, trading, self determination
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kennedy's new frontier
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tax cuts, deficit spending, unemployment, minimum wage
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what is popular mandate
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clear winner in an election
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reasons for the 1963 march on Washington D.C.
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pass a civil rights bill
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immigration act of 1965
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abilished quota system
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what are the Pentagon papers
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report of fighting in Vietnam, not positive of US Army
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What do Gideon v. wainwright and Miranda have in common
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rights of the accused
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what is detente
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better relations with enemies
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1st VP to resign
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spiro Agnew
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In what way was SU ahead of US
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outerspace expansion
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what triggered oil embargo
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us aid to israel durring YonKippur war
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what is the watergate affair
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when nixon "bugged" the headquarters of a political opponent
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