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34 Cards in this Set
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this man wrote about anti-materialism in the Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This trial took place after a biology teacher broke the law, teaching students about evolution
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Scopes Trial
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The scandal involving the reserves and bribery in Hardings cabinet
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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This event signified the beginning of the Great Depression
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Stock market crash on Black Tuesday: October 29,1929
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This was the largest in the furthest reaching of all the government works programs, impacting many small towns in America including Poland
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Works Progress Administration
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Orson Welle's famous broadcast of HG Welle's classic ______ caused a panic amongst many frightened people who believed it was real
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War of the Worlds
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One of the only positives to come out of the Hoover administration is the construction this dam, later renamed Hoover dam
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Boulder Dam
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Britain and France were drawn into war with Germany because
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Germany attacked and invaded places; Hitler's aggression
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Who or what did President Roosevelt describe as the "rattlesnakes of the atlantic"
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German U-Boats
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At the end of World War I, many new democracies were established in Europe. In the years between the two wars most of the democracies became
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totalitarians (dictators)
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Name the leaders of totalitarian governments
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Stalin (USSR) , Benito Mussolini (Italy), Hitler (Germany), Tojo (Japan), Franco (Spain)
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Who was the supreme commander of US forces in Europe
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The purpose of the Manhattan Project was to ___
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make the A-bomb
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Where were atomic bombs dropped?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the ____
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last German offensive
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This Senator became famous for his anti-Communist stance and accusing people of being communist with no proof
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McCarthy
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The Korean conflict was fought along the ___ parallel on the Korean Peninsula
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38th
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The term that describes a war in which neither side confronts the other directly on the battlefield
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Cold War
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In the 1950s, both the beat movement and rock 'n roll were viewed as forms or expressions of
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counterculture/ rebellion/ anti-establishment
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A conglomerate is a large corporation that
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takes control of many smaller companies in different industries so that if one fails, the other will win
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Small residential communities surrounding cities
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Suburbs
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These were the monsters on maple street
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Humans
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In the Kennedy-Nixon debates, Richard M.Nixon was hurt MOST by
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lack of experience with TV
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During the Kennedy Years, Congress enthusiastically committed funds for ____
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NASA/ space programs
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The Bay of Pigs invasion humiliated the United States by making the nation appear
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incompetant
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Name the congressional acts passed as part of the Great Society
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(PAGE 896 in book)
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Which of the following affirmed the legality of segregating the races and prompted the passage of Jim Crow laws?
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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MLK Jr. was a founder and first president of the
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SCLC
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All of these were associated with the black power except a. Malcolm X.
b. Stokely Carmichael. c. the Black Panthers. d. the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. |
d. the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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Shortly before his death, Malcolm X began preaching a NEW message that emphasized
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exercising the right to vote
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What formalized the end of vietnam's war with france?
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the geneva accords
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name 5 events that occurred in 1968
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tet offensive- january 1968
RFK enters presidential race- march 1968 MLK jr assassinated- april 1968 RFk assassinated- june 1968 apollo 8 orbits the moon- december 1968 *see notes for more |
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which president adopted the policy of vietnamization?
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Nixon
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Approximately how many Americans were killed in the vietnam war?
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58,000
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