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government spending a "little" (in) money to create a "lot" (out) of jobs and increase the flow of money was known as...
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pump priming
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the new deal's symbol for the "NRA" was...
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Blue Eagle
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"We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before" and "Direct federal handouts weakens a perosn's self resepect" were quotes by...
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Herbert Hoover
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Hoover's 'idea' that people should succeed through their own efforts and hard work...
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Rugged individulism
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the legislation that affected more lives than any other new deal program
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Social Security Act
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moving the presidential inauguration from March to January was called the...
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Lame Duck Admendment (19th)
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Roosevelt's first action after taking ofice as president in 1933...
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Bank Holidays
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Made the quote "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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How Roosevelt explained his New Deal Programs to the American people
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Fireside Chats
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Young men (18-25) working on the Great Plains planting trees was employed through...
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CCC
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Roosevelt's philosophy of believeing in the 'best person for the job' was the reason behind...
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Bipartisan Cabinet
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4 main critics of Roosevelt's New Deal Policies
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Upton Sinclair
Francis Townsend Father Coughlin Huey Long |
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4 main 'causes' of the depression
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uneven distribution of income
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The Bonus Army that was treated badly during Hoover's presidency was made up of...
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WWI veterns
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What did Harry Hopkins (Roosevelt's Top Aid) believed would be the best way to get America out of the Great Depression
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for people to get jobs and work
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Roosevelt's greatest mistake during the depression era was when he tried to...
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"pack the supreme court"
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The Main or most important task of the new deal and critical to get America out of the Great Depression
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Create Jobs
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A high tariff that leed to economic warfare with other nations and contributed to a worldwide depression
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Hewly-Smoot Tariff
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"Gone with the Wind" was a book written about...
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The Civil War
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"Black Tuesday" will always be associated wiht...
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The Stock Market Crashing
October 29, 1929 |
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"The Grapes of Wrath" is a book written about....
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The Dust Bowl and Farmers
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Roosevelt's Speech saying America will "Shoot on Sight" Gurman U Boats was known as...
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The Rattlesnake Speech
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Britsh Prime Minister that gave into Hitler's Demands by signing the Munich Pact...
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Chamberlin
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Resrtictions placed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles
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pay War Debts
demilitarize borders changed War Guilt Clause |
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The Need to "isolate the aggressor nations" was referred to by Roosevelt as...
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Quarantine Speech
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Country that Roosevelt referred to as the "Great arsenal of democracy"...
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America
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The Deliberate and systematic killing of an entire group of peopl
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Genocide
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Nation attacked by both Germany and later the Soviet Union that started WWII
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Poland
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Area refered to by Hitler as his "last territorial demand"
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Sudentenland
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Hitler's first aggressive action after coming to power was to remilitarize...
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policy that took away the political, social, and human rights of Jews in Germany
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Nuremberg Laws
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In Northern France early in WWII, Germany trapped the Britsh Army on the shores of...
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Dunkirk
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The Italian Dictator that was the founder of fascism in Europe
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Fransico Franco
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Leaders of Atlantic Charter (confrence) decided the first priority of the war should be...
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Stop Germany
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Allies of WWII
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America, Great Britian, Soviet Union
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Landing point of the invasion of Northern France in 1944 and also known as "D-Day"
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Normandy Invasion
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Surprise German counter attack in late 1944 and America's greatest battle in Europe
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Battle of Bulge
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America's Army Chief of Staff during WWII, respoinsible for all mainpower and equipment
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George Marshall
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the order in which the axis powers fall, bringing an end to WWII
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Italy, Germany, Japan
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American Navel victory taht was the turning point of the war in the pacific against Japan
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Battle of Midway
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the selective service system's first step in mobilization of the Military
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The draft
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Battleground in the pacific that became known as "hell" and the "island of death"
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Guadacanal
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In America's war against Germany, which important WWII event happen first
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Invasion of Africa
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Battle of Stalingrad is said to have been teh turining point of what front...
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Eastern Front
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Made the warning to Japan about "prompt and udder destruction"...
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President Truman
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Made the quote, "Italy is the soft underbelly of the axis"
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Winston Churchill
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fought inflation with price freezing and consumption with rationing
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converted America from peacetime to wartime production and led nationwide drives to collect recyclable items during the war.
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WPB
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supreme commander of the U.S. and allied forces in Europe during WWII and mastermind of all allied (american) invasions...
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General Eisenhower
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America dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of...
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Hiroshima
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general who, after losing the Philippines, made the quote: "I shall return"...
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McCarther
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Flew a one-way mission to bomb Tokyo
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The Doolittle Raid
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Country that signed a non-agression pact with Germany before WWII, opening the door for Hitler's "conquest" of Europe
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Axis powers during WWII
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Executed for selling Atomic Bomb secrets to Soviet Union
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Ethel and Julius Rosenbery
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owned by so many to so few" was a quote by...
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Winston Churchill
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Types of totaitarian government conrtolling the aggressor nations during WWII
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Set up by the League of Nations to find "homes" for the Jewish refugees
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High Commission
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country who's Totalitarian leader attacked the AFterican nation of Ethiopia before WWII
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Italy
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which country believed that by avoiding political and economic entanglements, they could avoid war...
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USA
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"An iron curtain has descended across Europe" was a quote by...
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Winston Churchill
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Term used to describe America's willingness to go to the "edge of war"
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Brinkmanship
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started a which hunt and believed "communists have taken over the government"
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J. McCarthy
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Stop the spread of communism through Alliances and the supporting of Weaker Nations
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Satellite Nations
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Seceretary of state who designed a plan to rebuild Europe after WWII
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George Marshall
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the alliance between the Soviet Union and the Satellite Nations controlled by...
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Warshaw Pact
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"Peacekeeping" alliance that fought the Korean War against North Korea and China
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United Nations (UN) Security Council
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"Communism and Capitalism are incompatible, therefore war is inevitable" was a quote by...
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Stalin
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State of Hostility, short of Military conflict, between communism and the United States
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Cold War
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Wanted to fight a limited war and not use nuclear weapons during Korean "War"
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Harry Truman
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The state controls all economic activity and the ownership of property...
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System of communism
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the unfair tactic of accusing people to disloyalty withoth providing evidence
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McCarthyism
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"Aid to Europe was not against a country but against hunger, poverty, and chaos" was a quote by...
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George Marshall
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believed and iron "fist" was needed to control the spread of communism in Europe...
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Harry Truman
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"incident" caused by a U.S. spy plane being shot down over the Soviet Union
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U-2 inncident
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helped lead to the belieft that the American Dream had finally come within reach...
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Peace, Progress, Prosperity.
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"I'm asking for equality of opportunity for all human beings" is a quote by...
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Truman
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"I don't believe you can change the hearts of men with law and descisions" is a quote by...
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Eisenhower
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"Never before so much for so few" is a phrase that best describes...
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if there is something you want you can have it
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Type of Mass Media in the 1950's that many believed was "a vast wasteland"...
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TV
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Betty Friedan's quote from the book "The Feminie Mystique" about the "homemaker"
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"Is this all?"
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Cleveland disc jockey who first used the Phrase "Rock 'n' Roll" to describe a new musical style...
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Allen Freed
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Type of Mass Media in the 1950's that many believed would "never come back"
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movies
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America became known as a "throwaway society" based on the practice of ...
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makind things to have a limited life span, and to be thrown away once broken
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Accused of walking the middle of the road and avoiding controversial issues....
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Eisenhower
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was given the major responsibility of being the "keeper of the suburban dream"
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housewife/homemaker
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first televised political speech was given by Richard Nixon and became known as the...
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Truman's slogan, or the ablity to make the tough decisions and accept responsibility
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"The Buck Stops Here"
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after WWII, what was considered to be a "crisis" at home...
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Movie starring James Dean that made him into a "teen idol"
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"Rebeal without a cause"
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Kennedy criticized Eisenhower's presidency (lack of direction) by saying "America was...":
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a drift."
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European location that was refered to as the "showcase of democrocy"...
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West Germany
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complete this quote:"Ask not waht your country can do for you--Ask what you can do..."
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"For your country"
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The "symbol of the cold war" that seperated communism from capitalism...
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Berlin Wall
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"Help these nations help themselves" was the philosophy behind this program designed by Kennedy that appealed to America's Youth
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Peace Corps
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A tense "standoff" that resulted in a blockade of the soviets and the closest America has ever come to nuclear war...
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Cubian Missle Crisis
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As a result of the 1st Televised debate, what "replaced the written word as the national language of politics"...
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"Image"...
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Kennedy believed, "The torch has been passed to..."
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"a new generation."
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"communication" designed to ease cold war tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
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Used to describe the popularity and "fairy tale" life of the Kennedy family...
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Camelot
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Resolution gave president Johnson a "blank check" in Vietnam and Broad Military Powers...
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Gulf of Tonkin
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Location of an "American tragedy" that resulted in a massacre
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My Lia Massacre
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The idea that if one (indochina) country falls to communism, they all will.
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"Domino Theory"
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Who were presidents during the Vietnam War?
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The agreement that divided Vietnam into two different states (countries)
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17th parallel
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"Vietnam is still with us. We paid an exorbitant price for the decisions that were made." was a quote by...
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Henry Kissinger
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"In the final analysis, it's their war." was a quote by...
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Kennedy
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Nixon's biggest mistake in dealing wth the Vietnam war was..
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Invasion fo Cambodia
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American soldiers fought these types of missions during the Vietnam war...
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Search and Destroy
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Who did President Johnson refer to as "Mr. Average Citizen"
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Walter Cronkite
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Nixon's plan to end U.S. involvment in the war by slowly withdrawing troops:
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Vietnamization Policy
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Campain to win over the citizens of South Vietnamto help us win the war...
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Hearts and Minds
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President who was givent the greatest blame for the Vietnam War = escalating the war by sending the first U.S. soldiers to fight and the bombing of North Vietnam
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Johnson
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"Sink or Swim with Diem" was a quote by...
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Eisenhower
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Most traumatic year of the war (assassinations, elections and offensives)...
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1968
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Nixon's National Security Advisor who led to the Peace Talks to end the war...
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Henry Kissinger
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distrust between what the government reported and American's who disagreed with his policies in Vietnam as...
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Pentagon Papers
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Johnson refered to member os congress and Americans who disagreed with his policies in Vietnam as...
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Hawks
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Event that directly led to a nation wide student strike of nearly all college campuses...
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Invasion of Cambodia
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First American Astronaut to orbit the Earth (3 times in 1962)
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John Glenn
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Kennedy believed "we stand on the edge of..."
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"... a new frontier."
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Truman's nickname during the Whistlestop Campaign, or his belief in telling it like it is...
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"Give 'em Hell Harry"
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Anti-conformist counterculture that gave up the materialism of the 1950's...
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Beat Movements - Beatniks
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Martin Luther King's Philosophy and his "unique" brand of non-violent resistance
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"Soul-Force"
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Started the civil rights movement by refusing to boey an unjust law on a city bus
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Jo Ann Robinson
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Started the black power movement and used the slogan "We shall overrun..."
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Stokely Carmichael. (Blank Panthers)
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according to Martin Luther King, "The Great Society was shot down..."
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"on the Battle Fields of Vietnam"
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I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" was a quote by...
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George Wallace
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city where Dr.King gave his moset famous speech and led his most public march to "nationalize" the civil rights movement in the 1963
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Washington D.C. Lincoln Memorial
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Black Muslim leader who taught 'seperation' but later believed in 'ballots or bullets'
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Malcom X
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City that was site of a year long bus boycott that started the Civil rights movement
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Montgomery
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The leader of the Civil Rights Movement who had "A Dream" of freedom and equality
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Martin Luther King JR
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"Are we to say that this is the land of the free except for the negroes" was a quote by...
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Kennedy
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The April assassination of Martin Luther King Jr became the turning point to the Civil rights movement in the year..
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1968
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Non-violent form of protest of segregated lunch counter by SNCC members
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Sit-in's
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De Facto segregation (and the most difficult to fight) is segregation that results from...
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practice and customs
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Civil rights leader who made the quote "You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea"
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Medger Evers
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"It certainly was tiem for someone to stand up, so I refused to move" was a quote by...
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Rosa Parks
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NAACP lawyer who challenged segregation before the supreme court and won the Brown vs Board of Education case...
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Thurgood Marshall
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Restrictions created in some cities and states to limit the freedom of African Americans
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Jim Crow Laws
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The state know as "the closed society" due to its discrimination in voting rights
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Mississippi
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the refusal to obey an unjust law
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Civil Disobedence
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"Separate but equal" supremem court case that legalized segregation of public facilities...
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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1954 supreme court case that led to the desegregation of public facilites (schools)
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Brown vs Board of Education
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The "moral decay of the country" in the 20's was most often blamed on...
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the cities
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the intellectual and cultural center for African Americans in the 1920's
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Harlem, New York
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protested outside the White House for a year to get voting rights for women...
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Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
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The admendment that gave women the right to vote...
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15th admendment
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the African American leader who founded the Niagara movement and the NAACP
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William (W.E.D.)
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The speech writer who wrote "the declaration fo sentiments" and became known as the "voice" of the suffrage movement.
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Elizabeth Caty Stamps
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The worst race riots in American History (until th 1960's) took place in..
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Chicago
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term used to describe a rebirth, a new learning, or a new beginning...
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renaissance
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famous hurmorist who was known as the cowboy philosopher during the 1920's...
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William Rogers
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the movement of rural southern blacks to Northern cities int eh 1920's was called...
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Great Migration
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Organization that used the Court System to improve the quality of life for blacks
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NAACP
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Women who adapted new styles, fashions, and attitudes during the '20's...
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Flappers
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The spokesperson who traveled america giving speeches tryingto get women the right to vote, and was also known as the leader of the movement
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Susan B. Anthony
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