Us History Spring 09 Review

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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Largest Naval battle of WWII; in the Philippines

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NVA

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North Vietnamese Army; fought against the US-backed South Vietnamese army in the Vietnam War

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Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).

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Robert F. Kennedy

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JFK's brother; advisor to JFK during his presidency; also a governor and vice president

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Containment

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The policy of keeping the territory controlled by the communist Soviet Union from growing.

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Gen. John Pershing

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Led the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and was regarded as a mentor by the generation of American generals who led the United States Army in Europe during World War II.

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Bank holiday (Emergency banking act, Emergency banking relief act)

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New Deal plan passed March 1933. Allowed a plan that would close down insolvent banks and reorganize and reopen those banks strong enough to survive.

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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New Deal act passed March 1933. A public work relief program for unemployed men, focused on natural resource conservation from 1933 to 1942.

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Main Reason for dropping the Atomic Bombs

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The US wanted Japan out of the war; Japan was a powerful competitor and was constantly nagging the US.

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Main agricultural cause on the Depression

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A severe drought ravaged the agricultural heartland of the USA beginning in the summer of 1930.

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Hoover's main cause of the Depression

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Limited government regulation and intervention; lasseix-faire

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Automobiles made what lifestyle possible?

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Living in suburbs; able to commute between suburbs and the city.

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Social security (New Deal act)

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New Deal act passed in 1935. "Forced retirement fund." Possibly most important act of the New Deal.

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FDIC (New Deal act)

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New Deal act passed in June 1933. Insured deposits for up to $2,500.

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Volstead Act

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Started prohibition, the 18th amendment

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Gen. Yamamoto

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Organized pearl harbor, assasinated by 9 US fighter planes

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Critics of the New Deal

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Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Republicans

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Lusitania

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British cruise ship secretly carrying weapons and sunk by German u-boats

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Gen. Patton

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WWII commander of US forces in Africa

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Dawes Act

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Act passed in 1887 regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma.

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Crazy Horse

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A respected military leader of the sioux. Participated in the Battle of Little Big Horn.

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Stagflation

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The term for when inflation and stagnation (inactivity in buisness) are going on at the same time.

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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The first sustained bombing operation in Vietnam, designed to stem the flow of arms and supplies for the North Vietnamese down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos to the South.

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Bay of Pigs

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An unsuccessful attempt by U.S. backed Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro.

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Anti imperialist league

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Established in the United States on June 15, 1898 to battle the American annexation of the Philippines and other imperialism.

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Gifford Pinchot

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The first Chief of the United States Forest Service. Reformed the management and development of forests in the United States.

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Progressive "Bull Moose" party

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A party formed by Theodore Roosevelt when he lost the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft and pulled his delegates out of the convention.

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Ida Tarbell

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One of the leading "muckrakers" of her day.

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2 Critics of the New Deal

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Huey Long, Father Coughlin

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D-Day

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June 6, 1944, the date during World War II when the Allies invaded western Europe by air.

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Battle of the Bulge

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In December 1944; Germany launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise

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Bataan death march

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Cruel march during WWII. Japanese soldiers led US POWs across Bataan Peninsula in the Phillipenes. The march ended at Camp O'Donnell.

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SDI

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Strategic Defense Initiative; proposal by Regan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

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4 Policies of Reganomics

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1. reduce the growth of government spending,
2. reduce income and capital gains marginal tax rates,
3. reduce government regulation of the economy,
4. control the money supply to reduce inflation.

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Warsaw Pact

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A group of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Potsdam Conference

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A meeting between representatives from the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union on how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier

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U2 Incident

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In May, 1960, a U.S. pilot was flying a U-2 fighter plane over Soviet territory when his plane crashed. It was debated between the U.S. and the Soviet Union whether the pilot's plane had crashed because of an internal malfunction or whether it had been shot down by Soviet forces.

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Southern manifesto

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A document written in February-March 1956 by legislators in the United States Congress opposed to racial integration in public places.

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Brown v. Board of Education

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A landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which established separate public schools for black and white students and denied black children equal educational opportunities.

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Thurgood Marshall

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Winning lawyer in Brown V. Board of Education.Also an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Sputnik

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First artificial satellite, launched successfully by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Started the "space race" with USSR.

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Ft. Laramie Treaty

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An agreement between the United States and the Lakota nation as well as several other Native American tribes. Was signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.

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USS Maine

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Dispatched to Havana, Cuba in 1898. When the ship mysteriously exxploded in the harbor, arguments were raised as to whether the explosion was accidental.

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Causes of WWI

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Zimmerman note, Lusitania sinking, unrestricted sub warfare

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Sussex pledge

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The Sussex pledge was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. Said that passenger ships would not be targeted and that merchant ships would not be sunk until the presence of weapons had been established.

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Armistice

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A situation in a war where the warring parties agree to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, but may be just a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace.

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Yalta Conference

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Meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, respectively—for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. Mainly, it was intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

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C.O.R.E.

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Congress of Racial Equality. Played a largge part in the civil war.

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Diem

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The first President of South Vietnam.