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| President FDR promised to help British and Russians fight Germans bu giving them military supplies while staying out of the actual fight. |
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| U.S. program supplied the U.K. and allied nations with war material in return for military bases |
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| December 7, 1941 resulted in the U.S. entry into WW2 |
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| D-Day AKA Normandy Landings |
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| Allied invasion of Normandy |
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| U.S. used massive atomic weapons againstt Japan. |
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| American-japanese holding camps |
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| American women who worked in factories during WW2 |
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| Provided college education to WW2 veterans |
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| Purpose was to raise awarness about segregation & racism during WW2 |
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| Mass March to pressure U.S. Government into desegregating the armed forces, and provide fair work oppurtunities for African Americans |
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Executive Order 8802 AKA
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| Prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry |
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| The Tuskegee Airmen were dedicated, determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military airmen, at a time when there were many people who thought that black men lacked intelligence, skill, courage and patriotism. |
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The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation.
gave the military broad powers to ban any citizen from a fifty- to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. The order also authorized transporting these citizens to assembly centers hastily set up and governed by the military in California, Arizona, Washington state, and Oregon. |
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| The Congress of Racial Equality or CORE is a U.S. civil rights organization that originally played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement |
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| The Pan-African Congress was a series of five meetings in 1919, 1921, 1923, 1927, and 1945 that were intended to address the issues facing Africa due to European colonization of much of the continent. |
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| The Truman Doctrine is the common name for the Cold War strategy of containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism. |
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| primary program, 1947–51, of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Western Europe |
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| NATO -North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. |
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| wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. it was intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. |
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| name of some large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons |
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| Containment was a United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to temper the spread of Communism, enhance America’s security and influence abroad, and prevent a "domino effect". |
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| Suburbanization (or suburbanisation) is a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities |
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| is the political action of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. |
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| outlawed discrimination in public accomodations and employment |
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| Students for a Democratic Society(SDS) |
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| Major Organization of the New Left, founded at the Universit of Michigan in 1960 by Tom Hayden |
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| U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring states to permit first-trimester abortions. |
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| Tonkin Gulf Resolution 1964 |
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| Passwd by Congress in reaction to supposedly unprovoked attacks on American warships off the Coast of North Vietnam; it gave the President unlimited authority to defend U.S. forces and members of SEATO |
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| U.S. would continue to provide military aid and supplies, but that it expected its allies to assume responsibility for providing the manpower for their own defense. |
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| Vietnamese political leader opposed to communist; led national independence movement. He spent several years in exile, making political contacts & gaining crucial American support in hopes of leading a postwar gov't |
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| was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Communist |
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| order established the first general loyalty program in the United States, which was designed to root out communist influence within the various departments of the U.S. federal government. |
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| igned by United States President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1947, and realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II. |
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| an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. |
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| Under this document, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. |
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| Montgomery Improvement Association |
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| was formed on December 5, 1955 by black ministers and community leaders in Montgomery, Alabama. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Edgar Nixon, the MIA was instrumental in guiding the Montgomery bus boycott, a successful campaign that focused national attention on racial segregation in the South and catapulted King into the national spotlight. |
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| was an African American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered[1] at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state's Delta region, after reportedly whistling at a white woman |
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| Non-violent direct Action |
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| any form of direct action that does not rely on violent tactics. |
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| group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.[1] |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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| was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.SNCC played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides, a leading role in the 1963 March on Washington, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party over the next few years. SNCC's major contribution was in its field work, organizing voter registration drives all over the South, especially in Georgia and Mississippi. |
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| process emphasizing the broad participation of constituents in the direction and operation of political systems |
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| The Albany Movement mobilized thousands of citizens and attracted nationwide attention but failed to accomplish its goals because of a determined opposition. However, it was credited as a key lesson in strategy and tactics for the national civil rights movement |
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| was a strategic movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the unequal treatment black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama |
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| was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march |
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| was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. |
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| an American political party created in the state of Mississippi in 1964, during the civil rights movement. It was organized by black and white Mississippians, with assistance from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), to challenge the legitimacy of the white-only US Democratic Party. |
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| outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States. |
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| a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies.[1] It is used in the movement among people of Black African descent throughout the world, though primarily by African Americans in the United States.[2] Most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the movement emphasized racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests,[3] advance black values,[4]. |
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| was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, 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.[6] His detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been described as one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. |
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| a religious organization founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930. He set out with the goal of resurrecting the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of the African American men and women of America. |
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| a black nationalist organization founded in 1964 by Malcolm X. Modeled on the Organization of African Unity, the purpose of the OAAU was to fight for the human rights of African Americans and promote cooperation among Africans and Afro-Americans in the Americas. |
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| three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. They grew out of the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, launched by local blacks who formed the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL). |
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| James Meredith started a solitary March Against Fear for 220 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, to protest against racism. Soon after starting his march he was shot by a sniper with birdshot, injuring him. |
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| Purpose was to promote unity, create a political agenda and set priorities for the 1972 election year, and begin to establish a political direction for the national black community for the years to come. |
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| James Meredith started a solitary March Against Fear for 220 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, to protest against racism. Soon after starting his march he was shot by a sniper with birdshot, injuring him. |
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| he artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoy Jones).[1] Time Magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the "single most controversial moment in the history of African-American literature-- possibly in American literature as a whole."[2] The Black Arts Repertory Theatre is a key institution of the Black Arts Movement. |
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| The Black Aesthetic refers to ideologies and perspectives of art that center around Black culture and life. This Black Aesthetic encouraged the idea of Black separatism, and in trying to facilitate this hope to further strengthen black ideals, solidarity, and creativity. |
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| was an African-American revolutionary left-wing organization working for the self-defense for black people. It was active in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1970s |
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| a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. |
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| involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. |
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| he easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term is often used in reference to the general easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, a thawing at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. |
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| Students for a Democratic Society |
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| was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left |
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| the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), written primarily by Tom Hayden, then the Field Secretary of SDS, and completed on June 15, 1962 at an SDS convention at what is now a state park in Lakeport, Mich., a community north of Port Huron |
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| was created with the aim of combating the discrimination that Mexican Americans faced in the United States Southwest. |
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| United Fruit Workers Union |
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| group has led protests advocating indigenous American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities, and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the United States |
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| was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public |
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| Founded in 1966 with Betty Friedan acting as an organizer, NOW is a public voice for equal rights for women. It has been extremely effective in enacting rhetorical strategies that have brought about concrete changes in laws and policies that enlarge women's opportunities and protect their rights. |
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| argues that sexism, class oppression, and racism are inextricably bound together. |
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| refers to a Republican Party method of winning Southern states in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting opposition among the once segregationist South to the cultural upheaval of New Left, Vietnam protests, the hippie culture, gun control, abortion and to desegregation and the Civil Rights and Women's movements. |
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| was a political scandal in the United States in the 1970s, resulting from the break-in into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. Effects of the scandal ultimately led to the resignation of the United States President Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974. It also resulted in the indictment and conviction of several Nixon administration officials. |
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| was a legislative response by the U.S. Congress to the 1973 energy crisis. Promote greater use of energy, shift oil and gas towards energy conservation. |
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| was a partial core meltdown in Unit 2 (a pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg. |
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| policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf region. |
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| agreement signed by the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. |
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| a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially heavy industry or manufacturing industry. It is an opposite of industrialization. |
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