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211 Cards in this Set
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When Roosevelt told the world that he would use US forces to protect American interests in the Western Hemisphere he was supporting which doctrine?
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Monroe Doctrine
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Which tariff of 1890 ended Hawaii's favored postiton in the sugar trade?
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McKinley Tariff of 1890
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Spanish ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the US after which war?
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Spanish-American War
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Why did Roosevelt send the Great White Fleet around the world?
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As a reminder of US's military might
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Who was William Randolf Hearst?
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He ran the Journal, a newspaper, and competed against Pulitzer
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From which country was the poet and writer Jose Marti exiled?
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Cuba
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Who was the leader of the Phillipine rebel army during the Spanish-American War?
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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Who was responsible during the 1800s for bringing diseases to Hawaii that reduced the population by half?
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American missionaries, settlers, and traders
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What does it mean to annex a country?
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"to add on"
establish a sphere of influence |
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How long did it take the US to build the Panama Canal?
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9 years
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_____ Treaty gave US control of the Panama Canal
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Hay Bunau-Varilla
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______ was the engineer in charge of building the canal for the French
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Phillipe Bunua-Varilla
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name of the calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba
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Rough Riders
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_________ was the group who sought to overthrow the monarch and persuade the US to annex Hawaii
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The Hawaiian League
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________ out break stalled the building of the Panama Canal
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yellow fever
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war fought over China
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Russo-Japanese
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the quest for colonial empires
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imperialism
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the Hawaiian queen who wanted to restore Hawaii's independence
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Liluokalani
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the publisher whose tales of Spanish atrocities in Cuba encouraged war with Spain
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Hearst
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the American Secretary of State who called for Open Door Policy
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John Hay
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the rebellion group of Chinese who drove foreigners from China
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Boxer Rebellion
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the President who proposed the League of Nations
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Wilson
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the US Admiral who encouraged the biulding of a larger US navy
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Mahan
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an amendment added to the Cuban constitution by US demand
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Platt Amendment
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the man who discovered and explored the Hawaiian Islands
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Cook
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German U-boarts attacked ships to prevent them from reaching ______
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Britian
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What was used along the front line to slow the enemy?
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barbed wire and land mines
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The British Navy blockaded _______ and mined the _________
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Germany
North Sea |
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At which battle did the Allies introduce tanks?
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Battle of Somme
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Even before the war, how did the US support the Allies?
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gave them war supplies
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The Schlieffen Plan called for an invasion of _____ through _______
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France
Belgium |
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Having troops rush across land into enemy fire was a part of what type of warfare?
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trench warfare
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During WWI name 3 groups that faced discrimination
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African Americans
American Indians Mexican Americans |
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Germany offered to help Mexico reclaim territory in March 1917 by sending a message that became known as the _________ note
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Zimmerman
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Where did the soldiers of the American Expeditoinary Force fight?
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France
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Name 3 well known authors of the Lost Generation
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Hemingway
Fitzgerald Lewis |
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What was the main povision of the 18th Amendment?
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ban of alcohol
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A higher accident rate was the result of the wider use of the __________
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automobile
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What type of music originated from African American musicians in the South?
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Jazz
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Which act passed by Congress enforced prohibition?
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Volstead Act
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Who made the following quote: "It will cost a man his job to have the odor of beet, wine, or liquor on his breath or have any intoxicants at his home"?
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Ford
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the practice of accepting religious text as literally true
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Fundamentalism
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Which industry was the nation's biggest business in the 1920s?
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auto
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Who was "Shoeless" Joe Jackson?
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accused of throwing the World Series in 1919
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Increased productivity in industry especially in the auto industry was made possible because of the use of the _____________
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assembly line
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Who were flappers?
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young women who adopted the new style of clothing and attitude in the 1920s
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Slave music and religious spirituals gave birth to a kind of music known as the _____
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Blues
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Who designed the Chrysler Building?
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not Fitzgerald
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What was the most popluar type of flims in the 1920s?
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silent
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How much did workers at Ford's auto factory earn?
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$5 a day
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_____________________ required men 21-30 to register for the army
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Selective Service Act
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the glorification of military strength
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militarism
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_____________ were sold by the government to raise money to support the war effort
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Liberty bonds
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_________ was sunk by a German sub and 128 Americans lost lives
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Lusitainia
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________ was the general in charge of US troops sent to France in June 1917
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Pershing
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leader of the Bolsheviks who seized power in Russia in 1917
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Lenin
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system used by US warships to escort merchant vessels across the Atlantic Ocean
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convoy system
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movement norhtward by African Americans in 1915 and 1930
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Great Migration
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heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne who visited Sarajevo in June 1914
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Franz Ferdinand
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proposed a German alliance with Mexico
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Zimmerman Note
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this group supported violence against African Americans and other minorites
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KKK
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____ was the high ranking official who recommended cutting taxes for the wealthy
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Fall
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name given to a period of anticommunist hysteria
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Red Scare
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nickname was Silent Cal
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Coolidge
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he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Randolph
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name of the scandal when the secretary of the interior granted private leases to oil reserves in California and Wyoming
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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he was executed along with Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Nicola Sacco
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the transition from wartime to peacetime production levels
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demobilization
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sought laws against lynching and other acts of violence
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NAACP
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proposed to Congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
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Equal Rights Amendement
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Mickey Mouse cartoonist of the 1930s
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Walt Disney
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deep economic downturn lasting from 1929-1940
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The Great Depression
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a novel about a lost utopia in Tibet
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The Lost Horizon
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thought government should let business get out of the depression on its own
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Mellon
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the highest tariff in US history
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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president who offered a "New Deal"
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FDR
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term for an upward trend in stock market
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bull market
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the practice of buying stocks with borrowed money
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margin buying
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President who faced blame for shantytowns
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Hoover
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Ocobter 29, 1929
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Black Tuesday
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WWI veterans who protested in Washington, DC
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Bonus Army
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mutual aid societies
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mutualistas
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the idea that success comes form individual effort
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rugged individualism
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playing the market
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stock specualtion
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the regualr ups and downs of business
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business cycle
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produced the famous photograph, Migrant Mother
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LAnge
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wrote Gone With the Wind
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Mitchell
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Whic region of the US did Georgia O'Keefe mainly paint?
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Southwest
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Who gave "fireside chats"?
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FDR
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(T or F) The Civilian Conservation Corp built roads
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F
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In which region of the US was the dust bowl located
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Great Plains
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Who is famous for the quote "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
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FDR
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Which program did Huey Long propose?
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Share Our Wealth
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Bank deposits are insured by this agency
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FDIC
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Was Harry Hopkins a critic of the New Deal?
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no
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The radio show that helped popularize country music during the depression
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The Grand Ole Opry
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Name of the administration that provieded electricity to rural areas
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Rural Electrification Administration
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The area of the US were the Dust Bowl farmers headed after the Dust Bowl drought
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California
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Whic group of people did Eleanor Roosevelt champion for racial justice?
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African Americans
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Who authored The Grapes of Wrath?
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Steinbeck
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Which date will "live in infamy"?
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December 7, 1941
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What was the foreign policy followed by the US in the 1920s and 1930s?
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isolationism
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This agreement between Roosevelt and Churchill made while oh a ship in Newfoundland stated that the US and Britianwould not pursue territorial expansion after WWII
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Atlantic Charter
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After the attack by Germany of this country Great Britian and France declared war
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Poland
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Which country bombed the US naval fleet at Pearl Harbor
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Japanese
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This leader of the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler
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Stalin
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What is anti-Semitism?
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hatred of Jews
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Conference at which the British prime minister gave control of the Sudentenland to Germany
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Munich Conference
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British prime minister who wanted to appease Hitler
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Chamberlain
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Hitler's "lightening warfare"
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Blitzkrieg
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The line of defenses along the French border with Germany
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Maginot
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(T or F) The caudillos controlled Mexico in the 1930s
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False
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Which nation violated the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1931?
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Japan
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The nation with a secret orgainzation called the Resistance
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France
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This nation's army was known as the Red Army
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Soviet Union
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Nanjing, a Chinese city, was occupied by this country in November 1937
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Japan
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international coalition of groups that opposed fascism
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Popular Front
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war fought in Spain between Fascists and Loyalists
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Spanish Civil War
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he broadcasted a radio porgram, War of the Worlds," that frightened many Americans
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Orson Wells
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Amerian author of The Sun Also Rises
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Hemingway
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Who was the leader of the US Pacific fleet?
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Nimitz
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Which Allied battle victory stopped the Japanese advance on Australia?
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Which was the bloodiest battle of the war in the Pacific?
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Battle of Okinawa
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Which battle did the Soviet forces win against the Axiz Powers in late January 1943
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Stalingrad
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Who led the British forces to victory in North Africa
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Montgomery
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What battle was the final counterattack for Germany
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Battle of the Bulge
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Who commanded the German Afrika Korps and was known as the Desert Fox
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Rommel
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General McArthur made a famous quote, "I shall return," to which place was he going to return?
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Batan
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Who was given command of all US army units in the Pacific?
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McArthur
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Where did the Allies land on D-Day?
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Normandy
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US troops would attack and seize only certain, strategic Japanese-held islands instead of trying to recapture them all.. known as..
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island hopping
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President who decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan
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Truman
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African American labor leader who planned a march on DC
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A. Phillip Randolph
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Nazi Germany's systematic slaughter of European Jews
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Holocaust
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Victory in Europe
marked the end of WWII in Europe |
V-E Day
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the deliberate annihilation of an entire people
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genocide
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controlled the flow of war news at home
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Office of War Mobilization
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US v Japs; marines attacked the island of Iwo Jima; several thousand marines and 20,000 Japs were killed; Americans planted flag after battle
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Iwo Jima
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the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on this city
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Hiroshima
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city in which Hitler died in a bunker
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Berlin
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V-2's
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long range rockets fired at England and Belgium
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________________ was the island won by the US after breaking the Japanese code turning point and a true naval air battle
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Battle of Midway
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Japanese Americans wer forced into camps in US
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internment
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major Nazi death camp
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Auschwitz
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post-war peace was discussed
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Yalta Conference
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What is called restricting the expansion of Soviet communism?
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containment
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Who was treated as a hero upon returning to the US during the Korean War, even whough he had been relieved of this command?
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McArthur
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Which country launched Spunik into space in 1957?
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Soviet Union
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Which President ended the Korean War?
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Eisenhower
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Which country had control of satllite nations?
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Soviet Union
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Who was the Republican candidate for the 1952 election?
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Eisenhower
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Food and supplies were delivered to people during this time
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Berling Airlift
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Where did many European Jews move after WWII
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Palestine
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What party was formed in 1911 by students in China?
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Communist
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What was the name of the war which was like a competition between the US and the Soviet Union?
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Cold War
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Which congressional act made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting?
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Civil Rights Act
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What type of music did the 1950s teens seek which was considered nonconformist?
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rock'n'roll
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Which Supreme Court case ruling declared segregation illegal public education?
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Brown vs Board of Education
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Which medium had the most influence over advertising after WWII?
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tv
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Which Supreme Court case established the legality of "seperate but equal" educational facilities?
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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What is the purpose of the Council of Economic Advisers?
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give economic advise to the President
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Why was the GI Bill of Rights created?
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help veterans
prevent economic depression |
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Who was arrested for refusing to give a bus seat to a white passenger?
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Rosa Parks
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What was the Baby Boom?
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high birth rate after WWII
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Who were the Little Rock Nine?
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African American students who were admitted to an all white high school in 1954
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Which supreme Court case greated the accused to have a lawyer present during police investigations?
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Escobedo vs Illinios
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What is the national health care program for people over the age of 65?
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Medicare
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Which President can be described by the following: Democrat, Roman Catholic, served in WWII?
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JFK
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Who was the conservative Republican candidate for president in 1964?
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Goldwater
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Who wrote the book Silent Spring which showed the ways in which Americans were poisoning their environment with pesticides?
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Rachel Carson
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In which crisis did the US and the Soviet Union come to the brink of war in 1962?
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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What is the federal program that provides free health care to the poor?
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Medicade
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Which President can be described by the following: Republican, chose Lodge as his running mate, felt he had maturity and experience to serve as president?
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Nixon
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What was the anti-poverty program for preschool education for low-income families?
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Head Start
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Who wan the 1960 televised presidential debate?
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JFK
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the group that led to the integration of many southern restaurants
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SNCC
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the FBI director who attempted to "disrupt" and "discredit" black nationalists and various civil rights organizations
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J. Edgar Hoover
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led to increases in African American voter registration
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Passage of voting rights
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expanded into the SCLC
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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the plan that brought in white volunteers to help with voter registration
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Freedom Summer
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the governor who banned the protest march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965
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Wallace
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the jail from which MLK, Jr wrote a famous letter to a group of clergymen
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Birmingham jail
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the state where SNCC organizer John Lewis maintained that voter registration was increased in this state it could be increased in the rest of the country
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Mississippi
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the Supreme Court justice who dissented from the fuling in U of California vs Bakke
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Marshall
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became the first African American mayor of Cleveland
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Stokes
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the Court case that encouraged companies to create affirmative action programs
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Griggs vs Duke Hower Co.
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the year the Supreme Court banned racial segregation in public school
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1954
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the margin in the early 1970s polls that showed the white Americans opposed court-ordered busing
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3:1
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led the SNCC in the controversial protests against the Vietnam War
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Carmichael
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the name of the settlement constructed to draw attention to African American poverty
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Resurrection City
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hoped to draw attention to violations of a Supreme Court ruling that stated segregation was illegal in facilities that served insterstate travelers
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Freedom Riders
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the act that put the entire voter registration process under federal control
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Voting Rights Act
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the leader of the SCLC who wanted white supporters to help in voter registration drives
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Moses
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took over as leader of the SCLC after MLK, Jr's assasination
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Abernathy
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called for unity of all people after converting to orthodox Islam
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Malcom X
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a political party started by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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Black Panther Party
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CORE worker who was murdered during Freedom Summer
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Chaney
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delivered one of the most famous addresses in American history in 1963
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MLK,Jr
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NAACP field secretary who was murdered by a white racist in 1963
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Evers
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became the leader of the Nation of Islam in the early 1930s
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Elijah Muhammad
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What does the name Ho Chi Minh mean?
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"he who enlightens"
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Which country was Ho Chi Minh the leader of?
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North Vietnam
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known as the League for independence of Vietnam
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Vietminh
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key foreign policy adviser of Nixon
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Kissinger
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commander of US forces in Vietnam
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Westmoreland
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What is escalation?
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increasing troops and bombing
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Roman Catholic who became president of South Vietnam
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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mayor of Chicago in 1968
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Daley
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a longtime North Vietnamese revolutionary who met secretly with a US official in Paris in 1970
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Le Duc Tho
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US secretary of Defense
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Robert S. McNamara
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members of the national liberation front
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Vietcong
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