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18th Amendment (1919) |
Created the prohibition and made the production and sale of alcohol illegal in the United States. It actually increased consumption and led to the rise of organized crime and was eventually overturned. |
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Margaret Sanger |
American birth controlactivist, sex educator, and nurse. popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Her efforts contributed to several judicial cases that helped legalize contraception in the United States. She is a frequent target of criticism by opponents of birth control and has also been criticized for supporting eugenics, but remains an iconic figure in the American reproductive rights movement.[2] |
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Civilian Conservation Corps |
New Deal work program that hired young, unmarried men to work on conservation projects. Employed about 2.5 million men and lasted until 1942. |
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United Nations |
an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict. |
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D-Day |
June 6, 1944, invasion of German-occupied France by allied forces. opened up a second front in Europe and marked a major turning point in World War II. |
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Korean War (1950-1953) |
Conflict between the North and South Korea, North Korea was backed by China and USSR, and South Korea was back USA to prevent the spread of communism. |
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Harlem Renaissance |
Movement in the 1920s of Black artists and writers. That centered in New York City. |
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Hooverville |
Shantytowns that sprang up in the years following the 1929 stock market crash. |
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Nationalism |
extreme patriotism that glorifies one certain race or nationality above another, and is said to be part of the causes of World Wars 1 and 2. |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
President during The Great Depression that started the New Deal and led the US into WWII. |
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Marshall Plan |
Post-World War II European economic aid package developed by Secretary of State George Marshall. The plan help rebuild Western Europe and served American political and economic interests in the process. |
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Allen Ginsberg |
American poet and leader of the beat movement and counterculture of the 1950s. |
