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the 1944 GI Bill of Rights gave
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veterans subsidies for education or opening small businesses
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Taft-Hartley Act
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June 1947 veto over Truman
greatly restricting the activities and power of labor unions |
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Wagner Act
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July 1935 FDR
protects the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions and to take part in strikes |
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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July 1964 JFK
landmark piece of legislation in the U.S. that outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, & employment |
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Truman Doctrine
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March 1947 Truman
stated that the U.S. would support the Kingdom of Greece and Turkey economically and militarily to prevent their falling under Soviet control |
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Marshall Plan
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U.S. would finance the reconstruction of European economy to repell communisim
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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January 1957 Eisenhower
stated that the U.S. would use armed forces upon request in response to imminent or actual aggression to the U.S. countries that opposed to communism would be given aid |
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in 1948 how did the Sovient Union challenge the policies of allies in western europe
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Soviet Union closed off surface access to Berlin frm the west
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What was NATO?
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April 1949 Trumam
armed attack against one member is attack against them all strengthen ties w/European democracies |
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history of Korea pre WII-WII thru most of 1950's
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pre WII Korea was occi[ied by Japan, after WII Korea was taken frm Japan & divide 38th parallel
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What was the Korea War about
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stop the spread of comminusim
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the war relations to the 1952 election
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hurt Truman's popularity
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American general fired by the president during the war
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General MacArthur
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election 1948
winner & chief issue |
Harry Truman
Taft-Hartley Act |
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election 1952
winner & chief issue |
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea War & commuisim |
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election 1960
winner & chief issue |
JFK
Civil Liberities |
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election 1964
winner & chief issue |
Lyndon B. Johnson
social security & civil rights |
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election 1968
winner & chief issue |
Nixon
Vietnam War |
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containment
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to contain the spread of commisism
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was a U.S. State Department official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. He was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950
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Alger Hiss
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was the Governor of New York (1943-1955) & the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency in 1944 and 1948
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Thomas Dewey
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American writer and editor. A Communist party member and Soviet spy, he renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent. He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss
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Whittaker Chambers
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American communists who were executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges were in relation to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Theirs was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history
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Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
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U.S. Secretary of State under President Eisenhower. early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world
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John Foster Dulles
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He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government and elsewhere
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Joseph McCarthy
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became dictar of Cuban after he took it over
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Fidel Castro
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brother of JFK assinated during the election of 1968
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Robert F. Kennedy
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He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.
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Henry Kissinger
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only Vice President in U.S. history to resign because of criminal charges
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Spiro Agnew
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massive retaliation
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is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack John Foster Dulles
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"new look" foreign policy
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Eisenhower's concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources and emphasized reliance on strategic nuclear weapons to deter potential threats
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Sputnik
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russian satillites sent up in space
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U-2
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American spy plane
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cold war
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the nuclear arm race between Russia & America
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Bay of Pigs
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special ops led by America (JFK) to overthrow Fidel Castro
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Cuban missile crisis
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a stand off between American & Russina. Russia was setting up missle sites in Cuba
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America's policy towards Latin America during the Cold War?
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mostly neglected Latin American & supported those only opposed to commuisim
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Nixion's policy of detente
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policy moving away frm containment dealing w/ the countries as seprate powers
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US-Soviet treaty that indicate easing of cold war tensions
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SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
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War on Poverty?
Whose program? Was it successful? |
policy to combat the increasing poverty line.
Lydon Johnson. Yes. |
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the U.S., upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodation, under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
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Brown v. Board of Education
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a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson, 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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Kennedy's initial approach to the race question?
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approch with caution trying not to displease either side he soon found that this wouldn't work.
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What were the actions of the botcotts attempting to promote?
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equal rights among all people
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an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement
led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycot t& helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 |
Martian Luter King Jr.
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was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. He has been described as one of the most influential African Americans of the 20th century
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Malcom X
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was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Stockley Carmichael
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notable for his leadership of the Black Muslims and the Nation of Islam
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Ilijah Muhammad
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African-American boxer who converted to islam & was part of the nation of islam
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Muhammad Ali
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What did Nixon consider his chief task during the first term
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Vietnam
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What was Nixon's major economic problem?
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inflation
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What happened to Nixion's Vice President?
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plead guilty to tax evasion & resigned to avoid jail time
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What happened at Kent State & Jackson State?
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involved the shooting of students by members of the Ohio National Guard on. Four students were killed. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address
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What were the terms of the Vietnam peace settlement?
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ceasefire, return of American prisoners of war, & withdrawal of U.S. forces frm Vietnam
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What was Watergate scandal about?
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Nixon opretiaves caught breaking into the demcractic headquaters
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What pieces of evidence were used to convict Nixon?
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recored tape of him
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What finally happened to Nixon?
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he resigned to avoid impeechment
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in the 1950s, what major improvement was made in public transportation?
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building of highways
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How did Newton Minnow feel about TV?
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"vast Wasteland"
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How did the blacks react to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
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riots against white instutions
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Famous Chicano leader?
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Cesar Chavez
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U. of Calif riots?
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fight for black rights, staged sit-downs strikes
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sexual behavior in the human male
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Alfred Kinsey
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bith of the modern gay rights movement
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Stonewall Riots which occurred in Greenwich Village in June 1969
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an American feminist, activist and writer, best known for starting what is commonly known as the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique
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Betty Friedam
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How did the women's right movement of the 1960s differ frm that of the earlier Progressive movement?
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demanded total equality
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Why did the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) boycott the West in the early 1970s?
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U.S. helping Iseral
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dilemmas confronted Americans in the 1960s
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many
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What were the Native Americans doing in the 1960s?
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organizing and demanding the return on law that was wrongly taken frm them
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What major problems did President Jimmy Carter face dmestic & foreign?
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economic downturn stagflation middle east in unrest & trouble in Iran
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What was Jimmy Carter's greatest diplomatic achievement?
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negotiatons with Israel & Egypt
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What did Jimmy Carter think was wrong with the American people?
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unmoral and matrealsic
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President Regan's tax policy?
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cut back on goverment spending cut income tax
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Income Tax Act of 1986
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seconed Regan tax cut
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"Star Wars"
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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major consequence of Regan's presidency
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poor pooer rich richer
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main reason for the collapse of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe
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Gorbachev annoucing that he wouldn't force a commuisim remgoem in any country
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What did George H.W. Bush exploit in the 1988 presidential campaign?
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crime & race
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What crime did Bush H.W. focus on after the election?
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illegal drugs
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first women named to supreme court
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Sandra Day O"Connor
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an attorney and a Democratic politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major American political party
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Geraldine Ferraro
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was an American evangelical Christian pastor, televangelist, and a controversial conservative commentator
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Jerry Falwell
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an evangelist and an Evangelical Christian. He has been a spiritual adviser to multiple U.S. presidents
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Billy Graham
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an American actor, recognised as a romantic leading man during the 1960s and 1970s. . Died of AIDS
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Rock Hudson
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arranged the arms sales of Iran-Contra Arms Deal
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Oliver North
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What pledge did Bush H.W. make that he couldn't keep?
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not to raise taxes
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