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14 Cards in this Set
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1950 law that helped veterans attend college in the US
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GI Bill of Rights
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supreme court case: separate but equal schools are unconstitutional
because they aren't equal |
Brown vs Board of Education
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leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the US
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Martin Luther King Jr
James Farmer Malcolm X |
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young people revolt against what is traditionally normal
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counterculture
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revolution in Quebec asking government to make them a
separate nation because of all the French speaking people |
Quiet Revolution
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economic unity used to make trade easier in West Europe
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European Economic Community (common market)
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rival association against the common market formed by 7 nations, economy controlled by the government
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European Free Trade Association
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leader of the Soviet Union who wants to de-Stalinize the USSR
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Nikita Khrushchev
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idea by Nikita Khrushchev who believes Stalin's cult of personality was negative to the USSR
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"de-Stalinize"
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man who started the movement for Poland independence in 1986 as an eastern Europe revolt
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Lech Walesa and Solidarity
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wants to ease tensions with the US by getting them to agree on arms limitations using glasnost and perestroika, government can't afford this because they can't keep up with the US
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Gorbachev wants to be able to openly discuss problems and come up with solutions in the USSR
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glasnost
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idea by Gorbachev to reform and restructure the economic and political systems
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perestroika
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peaceful revolution in Czechoslovakia, where the people push out communists
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Velvet Revolution
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