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31 Cards in this Set
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cold war |
an uneasy peace between the us and su |
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nato |
a organization made up to keep peace |
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warsaw pact |
an alliance of europien countries |
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containment |
keeping communism from spreading |
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iron curtain |
an invisible barrier between eastern and western europe |
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domino theory |
the theory that if nations fall to communism that the surrounding nations will fall to
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Korean war |
broke out in 1950 north korea invaded south korea |
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Cuban missile crisis |
u.s stopped russia from giving missiles to cuba |
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vietnam war |
prolonged war against communism |
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united nations |
50 nations supposed to keep peace |
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plessy vs fergusan |
supreme court case that established the separate but equal policy for foe public |
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brown vs board of education |
ruling that said separate but equal facilities were not fair |
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civil acts right of 1964 |
law that banned segregation in public places and people cant discriminate against each other |
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voting rights act of 1965 |
protected all citizens rights to vote |
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gi bill |
gave housing and educational opportunities to ww11 veterans |
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nikita khrushchev |
soviet leader during cold war |
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harry s. truman |
ends ww11 NATO containment Korean war |
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dwight d. eisenhower |
famous general during ww11 president during korean war |
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martin luther king jr. |
lead protest for African Americans |
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fidel raul castro |
dictator of cuba |
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marshall plan |
a us program to assist the economic recovery of europien countries |
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now |
worked to improve women rights |
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era |
tried to get amendment on women but failed |
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globalization |
linking nations through civil ways |
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superpowers |
us vs soviet union democratic ways |
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Charles drew |
could extract plasma from blood so the blood can live longer |
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Robert Oppenheimer |
top secret atomic bomb making |
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frank wright |
changed modern architecture |
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maya angelou |
poet laureate |
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bill gates |
computer worker made Microsoft |
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ray Kroc |
began the first franchised restaurant McDonald
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