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74 Cards in this Set
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March on Washington |
Huge march for Jobs and freedom on August 28, 1963 MLK delivered his "I have a dream" speech |
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Voting Rights Act 1965 |
civil rights law that banned literacy tests and other practices that discouraged blacks from voting |
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Little Rock 9 |
Nine African American students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957) |
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Plessy vs Ferguson |
Court case in the supreme court which ruled that separate but equal facilities did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment |
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Brown vs. Board of Education |
Supreme court case that ended separation in schools between african americans and whites |
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Black Panthers |
A group formed in 1966 that advocated more forceful measures to achieve civil rights ad supported the idea that African Americans had to depend on themselves to solve problems |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states |
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
allowed the president to use any force necessary to repel any enemy aggression |
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Vietnamization |
Nixon's idea of gradually turning over most of the fighting to the Vietnam |
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Domino Theory |
If Vietnam goes communist, South East Asia will follow |
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Geneva Accords |
A cease-fire was signed and Vietnam was temporarily divided at the 17th parallel |
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Tet Offensive |
Massive North Vietnam attacks on all of South Vietnam's major cities and on the US embassy in Saigon |
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War Powers Act |
Repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution restricting the Presidents ability to send troops to a foreign land to sixty days |
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Counterculture |
A rebellion of teens and young adults against mainstream American Society in the 1960s |
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Dien Bien Phu |
Town in Vietnam that was the site of a battle between the French and the Vietminh in 1954, the French lost the battle and control of the country of Vietnam |
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Pentagon Papers |
Papers were part of a government study on the war in Vietnam, revealed that the government officials had been misleading the American people about the progress of the war for many years |
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Vietcong |
the military forces of the National Liberation Front (NLF) a group that wanted to over through the government in Vietnam (communist) |
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Vietminh |
Group that resisted the Japanese occupation in Vietnam (communist) |
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Hawks/Doves |
Pro-war/Anti-war |
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My Lai Massacre |
a massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers during the Vietnam War |
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Rolling Thunder |
Under Johnson, U.S. bombing campaign in North Vietnam |
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Strategic Hamlet |
Jail's for vietnamese civilians |
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Watergate Scandal |
A political scandal that resulted in Nixon's resignation |
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Glastnost |
Russian word for "opening"; refers to a new era of media freedom in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Perestroika |
Russian word for "restructuring"; refers to the restructuring of the corrupt government bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Strategic Defense Initiative |
President Reagan's proposed defensive space shield that would knock out incoming Soviet missiles |
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Nuremberg Trials |
Trials of 22 Nazis for their involvement in the Holocaust |
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Cash and Carry |
Law that changed the neutrality act to allow countries at war to purchase american goods as long as they paid cash and picked up their orders in American ports |
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Nuremberg Laws |
stripped German Jews of citizenship and took away most civil rights and economic rights |
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D-day |
June 6th, 1944, the first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II |
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Mein Kampf |
Book Hitler wrote while he was in jail |
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Manhattan Project |
the top-secret program to build an atomic bomb during World War II |
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Executive Order 9066 |
Gave armed forces the power to establish military zones and gave them the power to force people or groups of people to leave to zones. (Effort to remove Japanese Americans from the West) |
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Yalta Conference |
meeting between FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to reach an agreement on what to do with Germany after World War II |
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Aushwitz |
Huge extermination camp in Poland |
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Hiroshima |
City/military base in Japan that was nuked (August 6th, 1945) |
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Holocaust |
the killing of millions of Jews and other by Nazis during WWII |
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Nagasaki |
Site of second nuclear attack on Japan |
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Kristallnacht |
a German word for broken glass; an event occurring on the nights of November 9th and 10th during which Hitler's Nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews, nearly 100 Jews died |
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Allies |
the alliance of Britain, France, and Russia in WWII |
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Trinity Test |
the testing of a nuclear bomb in the desert |
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internment |
the name for forced relocation and confinement of Japanese-Americans to concentration camps |
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Blitzkrieg |
the name for German fighting style meaning "lightening war" |
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Final solution |
Hitler's regime's plan to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union |
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Concentration Camp |
a detention site created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and in some cases, kill civilians |
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Blacklisting |
list of certain people or products viewed with suspicion of being communist |
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Iron Curtain |
Term coined by Winston Churchill describing an imaginary line dividing communist countries and non communist countries
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Nationalists |
people with a sense of pride and devotion to a nation |
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Korean War |
A war between North and South Korea which the U.S. got involved in because of containment |
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communist |
a person who believes in a system of government in which there is no private property and there are no economic classes |
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McCarthyism |
Joseph McCarthy's tactic of using fear and making baseless charges to stay in power |
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Truman Doctrine |
Truman's pledge to provide financial and military aid to countries in danger of communism (Greece and Turkey).
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CIA |
(Central Intelligence Agency)
Collects intelligence information and takes part in secret actions against foreign targets |
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Marshall Plan |
George Marshall's financial aid program to help rebuild the european economies
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U-2 incident |
US U2 spy plane was shot down by soviets
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Warsaw Pact |
A military alliance established in 1955 of the Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe
(forced by communists) |
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NATO |
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
An international defense alliance formed in 1949 |
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Brinkmanship |
a strategy that involves countries getting to the verge of war without actually going to war |
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Berlin Blockade/ Airlift |
Soviets blocking Berlin so it would be weak so they could take it over, United States and Britain shipped supplies by air to West Berlin, very successful
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Cold War |
an era of high tension and bitter rivalry known between the United States and the Soviet Union following the end of World War II |
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Containment |
policy that the U.S. adopted in the late 1940s to stop the spread of communism; it involved providing economic aid in order to strengthen countries against the Soviets |
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Satellite nations/ Eastern Europe |
Countries under control of a more powerful country (Eastern Europe)
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USSR |
Communist Russia (the Soviets) |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
Several Days during which the US teetered on the brink of nuclear war with the soviet union because of missiles in Cuba
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HUAC |
(House Un-American Activities committee) committee formed in the House of Representatives to investigate radical groups in the US |
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Japanese Americans |
1st generation- Issei 2nd generation- Nisei 3rd generation- Sansai |
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Facism |
system of government that focuses on the good of the state rather than the good of individual citizens |
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Munich agreement |
a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechloslovakia |
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Non-aggression pact |
Soviet-Nazi agreement to take no military action for the next ten years |
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Normandy |
Beach invaded on D-day |
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Third Reich |
the Nazi party |
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Nazism |
the methods that the Nazi's were/did |
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Credibility Gap |
public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War
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SDS |
Students for a democratic society |
