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110 Cards in this Set
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Socail Securities Act provided for all of the following
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Assistance to elderly, disabled and unemployed
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When FDR was frustrated with the Suporeme Court dismissing his programs, he tried passing what?
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Court Packing Bill
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What did Roosevelt use to communicate with the American people about his New Deal programs and WWII?
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Fireside Chats
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What does FDIC do?
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Insures bank deposits
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Which program created the Codes of Fair Practice?
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National Recovery Administration
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What did the Emergencey Banking Act do?
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Declares Bankd holiday- closes all banks, only opens good ones
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What causes of the Great Depression best describes the problem fixed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
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Overproduction and underconsumption
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The Crash of the Stock market, a problem the led to the Great Depression, was solved by which program?
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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What caused the recession of 1937?
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FDR and congress cut back New Deal Programs
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All of the following were part of FDR's New Deal...
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Relief, Recovery, Reform
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Which ammendment repealed prohibition?
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21st
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What program helped plant millions of trees accross the nation by signle men?
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Civillian Conservation Corps.
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What program created dams to provide energy to farms in the east in the U.S.?
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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What critic supported the Old Age Pension Plan?
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Francis Townsend
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What is rugged individualism that was used by Hoover?
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Succeed by your own efforts
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Which critic was specifically against gov't regulation and deficit spending?
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American Liberty Legue
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What does the Wagner Act do?
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Right of unions to organize and collective bargaining
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How is the PWA different from the CWA?
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PWA- gives money for states to build
CWA- Gov't hires directly |
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How is communism and facsim different?
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Communism- absense of private property
Facism- highly nationalistic and protectionof private property |
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The Casablanca Conference leads to the attack on which area?
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Sicily and Italy
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What was Hitler's "final solution" for the Jews and other undesireables?
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Mas Extermination
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Which Neutrality Act said that America will not take sides during the Spanish Civil War?
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3rd
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What did the Europeans decide at the Munich Conference?
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GErmany is allowed to keep Sudentland if they promise not to take more
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What nation did japan invade first?
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Manchuria
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What was a reason why we dropped the atomic bomb?
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Shortened war, save American lives, intimidate USSR
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What is the date that will ive in infamy asccording to FDR?
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Dec. 7, 1941- Pearl Harbor
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Why is the Battle of Midway a turning point in the Pacific?
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Sunk large portion of Japanese ships and planes
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Which conference created the United Nations?
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San Francisco
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What is the first state to become Facist?
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Italy
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What does Kamikaze mean?
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Divine Wind
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Operation Overlord was the code name for which attack by which general?
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D-day, Eisenhower
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All of the following are goals outlined in Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
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Unite all German speaking people, Racial purification, Lebensraum- expand living space
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Which is the most famous group of all-blakc fighter pilots?
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Tuskegee Airmen
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What is the law passed during this time that allowed the first peacetime draft in America?
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Selective Service Act
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Executive Order 9066 targeted which group of Americans?
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Japanese-Americans
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What was Nixon's Checkers speech about?
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Accused him of slush fund. "I like Ike"
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The GI Bill provide for all of the following
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Veterans hospitals/rehab, unemployment benefits for vets, low interest loans, and financial aid for education
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What was the idea called to give money to Europe in 1947 in order to help prevent the spread of communism?
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Marshall Plan
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Who was the communist leader of China after WWII?
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Mao Zedong
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Which group is best known for armed self defense in the civil rights movement?
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Black Panthers
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Why did China support North Korea in the Korean War?
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They want North Korea as a buffer state
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Who won the first televised presidential debate?
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Eisenhower
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John Foster Dulles supported which following programs that came from the idea of America threatening extreme measures to get what they want from the communists?
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Offensive Weapons
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What did America promise to do if the Soviets pulled their nukes out of Cuba?
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Not to take Cuba and take missles out of Turkey
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The baby boom was caused by what?
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Reunion of soldiers and sweethearts, decreased marriage age, desire for large families and advances in the medicine
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Who shot JFK?
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Which of the following court cases stated that police officers must tell the accused of their rights?
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Miranda vs. Arizona
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Which civil rights event happened first?
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Which of the following did Martin Luther King do?
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Poor people's march- I have a Dream
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did which of the following?
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Outlaws discrimination in public facilities, porhibits literacy tests, prohibits discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, religion or gender
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Who was shot on April 3rd, 1968 that spraked racial riots accross the country?
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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How did McCarthy end his anti-communist accusations?
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Accused democrats for allowing communist infiltration
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Who was the first American in space?
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Shepard
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In Johnson's War on Poverty, which program targeted the youngest group?
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Project Head Start- Preschoolers
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In the election of 1968, who won in the Democratic Primaries and why?
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Humphrey
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The PATRIOT Law does which of the following
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Allowed gov't to keep suspected terrorists up to 7 days without charging them
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What directly lead to the creation of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
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North Vietnam attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin
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Nixon performed all the of the following things to cover up Watergate
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Shredded all evidence, asked FBI to stop investigating and spend $450,000 to keep burglars quiet
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HWta is the best example of Carter's foreign policy?
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Panama Canal, camp David Accords, Iran Hostage Crisis
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How many Americans served in the Vietnam War and how many died?
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Served-3.3 million. Died- 58,000
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What is detente and who was it specifically used in?
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Cooperation
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How did the Supreme Court help decide the election of 2000?
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Republicans take recount to Supreme Court, decide (5-4)to stop recount
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What is Agent Orange LEaf used for?
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Leaf killing chemicals
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What happened at Woodstock?
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3 day festival that was a symbol of Hippie culture
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Which policy was used by Kissinger to negotiate with important political powers?
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Le Duce Peace Plan
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Why was Ford criticized whenhe sent troops to rescue the US MAyaguez captives in Cambodia?
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More people were killed than were saved
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What was the end result of the Saturday Night Massacre?
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Cox was fired
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What caused the Great Recession in 2008?
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Housing Bubble
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How is Carter seen in the election of 1976?
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Moral Outsider
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Why was Ford struggling with Congress?
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Ford wants to deal with the recession and congress wants to help with unemployment
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Which of the following reasons was Clinton impeached?
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Illegally using money for election campaign and lying under oath about a relationship
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What is the name of the conservative Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court appointed under Reagan?
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William Rennquist
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What was Bush Jr. looking for in Iraq?
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Hussein's Weapons
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The Kissinger/Le Duc Peace Plan did all of these
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Withdraw American troops, exchange POWs, Free elections in Vietnam, Northern troops remain in South Vietnam
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When did the Soviet Union break up?
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Dec. 1991
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Why did George HW Bush lose in the 1992 election?
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Early 1990's recession
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Which of the following did Nixon use in his domestic policy?
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Revenue sharing, reduce programs from Great Society, Family Assistance Plan
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What did the Contract with America do?
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List of 10 thing republican promised to work on
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Which of the following nation was part of the NAFTA?
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Canada, Mexico, and US
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Why did the terrorists attack the Pentagon?
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It was a militarty information base
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Whaty did Iran want to trade the hostages for in the Iran Hostage Crisis?
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Shan
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What did the No Child Left Behind do?
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Education reform based on standardized tests
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What did the SALT 1 treaty do?
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Limits the number of nuclear missles
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Why weas there such strong support for the 26th ammendment?
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Voting age moved to 18
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Nixon was charged with all of the following?
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Obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of congress
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What were the impacts of the New Deal?
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Power, protect, promote, prevent and provide
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What program was declared unconstitutional by Butler vs US?
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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The Federal Republic of Germany was run by which kind of gov't?
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Socialist
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What was the earliest version of German persecution?
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Holocaust and Nuremburg Trials
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Who is known as the first black Supreme Court Justice?
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Thrugood Marshall
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What part of the Geneva convention did America and South Vietnam try to prevent from happening?
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Stops election to prevent Ho Chi Mihn from winning
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Francis Perkins
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Developed Social sercurities Act
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Dorothea Lange
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Photjournalist during the Great Depression
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Member of FDR's black cabinet, supported education
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Marion Anderson
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African American singer, sang for President Roosevelt
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Ethel Rosenberg
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Accused and killed with her husband for giving information to the Soviets
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jacqueline Kennedy
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First Lady and fashion icon, remodeled the White House
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Betty Friedan
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"Feminine Mystique"- encouraged women to work outside of the home
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Linda Brown
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Brown vs Board of Education
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Rosa Parks
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Shirley Chsiholm
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Elected for congress and ran for President
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Phyllis Schafly
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Anti-feminist, opposed equal rights ammendment
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Rachel Carson
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Marine Biologist
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Sally Ride
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First American woman in space
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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First Supreme Court Justice- appointed by Reagan
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Geraldine Ferraro
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First Vice President nominee- 1984 for Democratic party
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Hillary Clinton
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Support health care bill and became senator. Current Secratary of State
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Great Society Programs
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Education Acts, medicare, medicaid, Immigration act of 1965, Department of Housing and Urban development, Environment Acts, Department of Transportation, Highway/Motor Vehicle Safety Act
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Vietnamization
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Gradual withdraw of US troops, Train and equip the ARVN, Bomb North Vietnam
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Burger Court
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Upholds court order busing, Agrees with afirmative action, limits capital punishment, Allows abortion in Roe vs Wade
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