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42 Cards in this Set
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Atomic bomb- japan's surrender
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to end the war completely and easily and to get back at japan
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japanese internment
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put into camps due to fear of attack/ spying
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Nativism
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favoring native inhabitants, not immigrants
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nuremburg trials
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Nazi leaders put on trial for war crimes
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First 100 days
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FDR passed a lot of legislation to help recover from Great Depression
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Social Security
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provided financial security for the elderly, unemployed, and disabled
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Agricultural adjustment Act
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raised crop prices by paying farmers to lower output
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Dust Bowl
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area in the Great Plains- under a drought
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Relief
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provided help to those most affected by the GD
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recovery
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provided help for businesses and banks to improve the economy
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Reform
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provided changes in order to prevent another GD
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court Packing
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FDR tried to add judges to the Supreme Court to gain control of that branch
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Free Enterprise vs Govm't COntrol
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laissez-faire vs govm't regulation of business
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March on Washington
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MLK led, "i have a dream", spurred CRA 1964
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Selma March
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arrested for standing in line to vote, very bloody, FOR VOTING RIGHTS, helped pass VRA 1965
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Congress role- CRA 1964
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eliminated discrimination in public places, employment, and voting- Con. passed it
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Congress Role- VRA 1965
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passed after Selma march, eliminated literacy tests (which had different standards for blacks vs whites)
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Supreme Court- brown vs Board of Education
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ordered desegregation of public schols
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affirmative action
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gave special consideration to minorities
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Eisenhower's Role- Little Rock
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Showed that govm't would actually do something, sent troops to desegregate
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Marshall Plan
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sent aid to European countries
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Korean war
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contain communism, N. korea communist, we helped S Korea and successfully kept them non-COmmunist
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NATO
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collective security, said that they would come together against communism
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Truman Doctrine
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sent aid to turkey and greece, afraid of domino theory
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United Nations
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international peace keeping organization formed after atlantic charter
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Neutrality act 1935
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no trade
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neutrality act 39
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pay in cash and take the items home yourself, to help allies
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pearl harbor
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led to our involvement in WWII
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Good Neighbor Policy
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policy of peace w/ latin american countries
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Office of Price Administration
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created to prevent inflation, used war bonds
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Office of Civilian Defense
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made programs to get people to support the war
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Fidel Castro
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has frustrated 10 US presidents
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Roosevelt clashed with the _______ over New Deal programs, which violated the ______.
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supreme Court, separation of powers
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GI Bill
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gave loans to veterans to start businesses and attend college
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THe first step towards the end of the COld War
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nuclear test ban treaty
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In Vietnam before US
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France
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2 factors in budget deficits of the 80s
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military spending, tax cuts
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Kennedy's Biggest Success
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift all served to
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limit or contain Soviet expansion
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provided hospital care to people over 65
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Medicare
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Medicare was one of President Johnson's ___________ programs.
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Great society
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some objections to the new deal were that it was endangering the _______________
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Free Enterprise system
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