Exam # 3 History 202

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Marshall Plan
Secretary of State. George C. Marshall

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Build up economy of Wester Europe after WWII, prevent from going communist.

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"Iron Curtain"

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Churchill speech, divides Eastern Europe and Western Europe.

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Korean Conflict

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75,00 using soviet made tanks and invade Korea republic in south Korea.

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Truman Doctrine
1947

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Containment Policy, support Greece and Turkey economically and militarily to prevent their falling under Soviet control

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Dixiecrats

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Southern democrats

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization. European Defence Act.

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George F. Kennan

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Idea of containment. Wrote letter and known as "Mr. X"

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Warsaw Pact

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Eastern European Communist Act. direct response to West Germany joining the NATO

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Levittown

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postwar (WWII) housing boom. Massed produced look a like homes

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Brown V.s Board Of Education
1954

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by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities

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little rock nine

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initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended

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G.I. Bill

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Gives generious benefits to U.S soldiers, college education and possibly a home

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Atomic Bomb

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Manhatten Project. Scientist race to see who completes the first atomic bomb

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Election of 1961-1963

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John F. Kennedy V.s Richard Nixon
Kennedy wins

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Bay of Pigs

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Aborted invasion, United States CIA-backed invasion which was directed by President John F. Kennedy in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, 2nd airstrike cancelled.

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Cuban Missle Crisis
1962

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Crisis of Nuclear age, soviets planned missle in cuba. Kennedy ordered air force put to nuclear bombs in air. last momnet Svoiets surned ships around.

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JFK assassination
November 22, 1963

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Shot and killed

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M.L.K jr. Assassination
April 4th, 1968

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Shot and killed in Memphis, 2 months after Kennedy.

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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1964

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gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia. Blank Check for support of SOuth Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

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Military campaign by the forces of the Veit cong against the forces of South Vietnam, United States and their allies during the Vietnam war. purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam

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My Lai Massacre

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the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, entirely civilians and some of them women and children, conducted by U.S. Army forces, during the Vietnam War

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Kent St.

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Campus protest. R.O.T.C. building fire bombed. 4 college students dead.

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Nixon Visits China
1972

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America deeming with communists, work foreign policy game. China would pressure Vietnam to stop the war

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End of Vietnam War
April 1975

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North Vietnam took control of Siagon which was an allie of the U.S. and fell to communisn. Victory for the North Vietnamese.

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Election of 1977-81

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President Jimmy Carter

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Election of 1953-61

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Election of 1961-1963

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John F. Kennedy

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Election of 1963-1969

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Election of 1968-1974

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Richard Nixon

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Election of 1974-1977

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Geral Ford

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Election of 1977-1981

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Jimmy Carter

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Elestion of 1981-1989

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Ronald Reagan
served two terms

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Election 1989-1993

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George H.W. Bush

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Roe V.s Wade

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regards abortion, violated a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Camp David Accords

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Egypt Anwar Sadat and Isreali Prime minister Menechem Begin. provided the framework for peace in the Middle East

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Six Day War 1967

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was fought between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. At the war's end, Israel had gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.

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Three Mile Island

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the worst civilian nuclear accident in United States history when in 1979 TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown

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Berlin Wall Comes Down

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Reagan Est. relationship with Gorbechev to take down the Berlin Wall.

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Fall Of Communism

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Military Spending bankrupts Soviets, cannot keep up with U.S.

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World Trade Organization
WTO

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designed to supervise and liberalize international trade.

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North America Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA

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Trilateral block b/w the United States, Canada and Mexico