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85 Cards in this Set
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Baby Boom
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When birth Rate is high
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Sirhan Sirhan
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Assasin of Robert Kenedy
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11-23-63
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Kennedy became the fourth president to be assassinated and the eighth to die in office.
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GNP
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Gross National Product
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Dwight Eisenhower
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REP PRES
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Impeachment
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Bring Charges against
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U2 Incident
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Soviet downing of an American U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft over Soviet territory
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Abdicate
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Give up power
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Nixon
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Pres; Watergate
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Genocide
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Complete Killing of an entire race
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Peace Corps
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Young people sent to developing countries to do volenteer work
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Ho Chi Minh
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president of North Vietnam
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Fidel Castro
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Communist leader of Cuba
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Panmunjon
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Peace talks in Korea
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Mass Production
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Making a lot of one item
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Napalm
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used in bombs and flame throwers
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Pension
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Money recevied after retireing
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Harry Truman
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Pres
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Doves
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Against War in Vietnam
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Gen William Westmoreland
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Commandar of American Troops in South Vietnam
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HAWKS
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For war in Vietnam
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GI Bill
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Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.
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Incubment
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Holding an Appointed Postion
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William Calley
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Murdered during My Lai Massacre
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Montgaomery Alabama
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Rosa Parks....resulted in Montogomery Bus Boycott
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Nelson Rockefeller
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Vice President of the United States.
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Rationing
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allotment of scarce supplies, usually by governmental decree, to provide equitable distribution.
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Attrition
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a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength
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NAACP
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National Asso. for the Advancement of Colored People
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Suspected killer of JFK
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Marshall Plan
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plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after World War II
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17th Parallel
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Divided Vietnam
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Saigon
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Capitol of North Vietnam
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Watergate
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Office building/Hotel; buglary, dem headquarters, Nixon declined
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38th Parallel
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Divided Korea
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New Deal
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FDR's program to end depression
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Iron Curtian
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such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
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Appeasement
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Make peace with
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My Lai Massacre
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a massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers
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Bay of Pigs
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bay of the Caribbean Sea in SW Cuba: site of attempted invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces April 1961
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Satellites
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Country run by outside power
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Speakeasies
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illegal bars during prohibition
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FDR
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Dem Pres
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Yellow Journalism
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concentrating on sensational and lurid news;
Tabliod, Enquirer |
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Depression
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time of High Unemployment and Low Spending
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Drought
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Time w/out water
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Truman Doctrine
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provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism
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Dienbienphu
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Last great battle between the French and the Viet Minh forces of Ho Chi Minh
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Nationalism
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Partiotism and Loyalty for one's country
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League of Nations
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international organization, established by the peace treaties that ended World War I.
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Al Capone
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Famous Gangster(taxes)
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Agent Orange
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powerful herbicide and defoliant containing trace amounts of dioxin, a toxic impurity suspected of causing serious health problems in Vietnam
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Fireside Chats
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FDR addressing people of the state of the country
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June 6, 1944
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D-Day(NORMANDY)
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Detente
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a relaxing of tension
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Illiteracy Rate
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# of people who can't read
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Joesph McCarthy
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technical assistant for military intelligence during World War II
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Prohibition
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Ban of Alcohol
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FDIC
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Insurance on money in a bank up to a certian amount
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Gerald Ford
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republican pres. 74-77 not elected VP or Pres.
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John Glenn
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First American to Orbit the Earth
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James Meredith
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the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi
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KDKA
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First Radio Station, ever
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Herbert Hoover
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Pres, Beggining of Depression
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JFK
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President, Murdered 63'
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Ultimatum
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choice;final, definitive terms submitted by one disputant nation to the other for immediate acceptance or rejection
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4-4-68
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Day King was murdered
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Domino Theory
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Saying if one country turns communist the surrounding countrys will too
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Reparations
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Payments for war damages
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John Dean
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Nixon's Lawyer for 1000 days in Watergate
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Korea
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Korean War
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Kamikaze
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Japanese Suicide Pilot
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Gulf of Tonkin
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North Vietnamese gunboats against U.S. naval forces stationed in the gulf led to increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Pres
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Armistice
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Temp peace treaty
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Propaganda
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Presuading to belive something
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Wall Street
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Where stock exchange is located
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Isolationism
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Staying away from other country's affairs
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Operation Overlord
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Vietcong
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Communist force in S. Vietman
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Belligerent
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Warring Country
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Brown VS Topeka
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case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was black.
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Archibald cox
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Justice Department's special prosecutor in the Watergate scandals
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DEC. 7, 1947
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Peral Harbor
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
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