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| Where factory managers carefully studied the way work was done to increase productivity |
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| Organized raids as an attempt to catch communist after a bomb damaged his house |
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| Negro World Paper, urged black Americans to set up a nation in Africa |
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| Postwar Economic Problems |
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| Wartime jobs cut, factories closed changing from wartime to peacetime goods, spending sprees on products not available during the war causing inflation, cost of living doubled, recession |
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| Industry With Greatest Impact |
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| People who leave one country and live in another for some purpose |
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| Women of the 1920s who defied tradition with shocking or unconventional clothing, language, dance, and behavior |
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| 1920:Right to vote; more women in government; more worked outside the home |
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| Music That Expressed The Spirit Of The 20s |
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| Americans were afraid the communists would revolt against the government after the Reds overthrew Russian gov. in 1917 |
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| Oct. 29, 1929; stock market crashed; beginning of great depression |
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| Steel baron; tried to cheer people up during Great depression |
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| Argued that the depression was a good thing and would make people work harder |
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| Cause Of Stock Market Crash |
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| Speculators, risky decisions in stocks |
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| Individuals could solve their economic problems through their own efforts and through cooperations with their neighbors |
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| Hoover got military guards to drive them away from the White House |
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| When investors buy land or stock at a low price, wait for the price to rise, and sell it for a quick profit |
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| Could've won presidential election of 1928 but chose not to run |
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| When brokers asked investors who had bought on margin to put up more money to cover their loans on stock that were now worth less |
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| High Inventory Rates In Relation To Production Of Goods |
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| Durable goods lasted longer so business inventories increased |
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| Reason RFC Was Not Effective |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation; bands used loans to strengthen their own finances instead of making loans to needy citizens |
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| Groups Social Service Act Helped |
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| Elderly, People who lost their jobs, handicapped, dependent children |
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| Unemployment Compensation |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps gave jobs to young people and helped environment; Federal Emergency Relief Fund (FERA) provided money to welfare agencies to give to unemployed; Civil Works Administration (CWA)-offered jobs rather than relief payments; Works Progress Administration (WPA)-provided jobs to get money into circulation |
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| Trade within the boundaries of a state |
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| FDR's Main Goal Upon Taking Office |
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| Pull out of economic crisis |
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| Huey Long's Solution To Great Depression |
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| "Share our wealth"-gov. tax rich heavily and give money to poor, not practical but attracted many followers, esp. poor |
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| Give every person over age 60 $200 a month so they would retire and give the job to a younger person, as well as stimulate economy |
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| Informal talks Roosevelt made to the American people, encouraged them to use banks again |
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| Secretary of Interior and leader of PWA |
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| CCC Hired What Type Of Individuals |
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| Unemployed single men 18-25 from families on relief |
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| People Who Benefited From The Wagner Act |
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| Workers; guaranteed their right to organize and bargain collectively |
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| Author; wrote Grapes of Wrath during great depression |
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| An alliance of many different groups for a single purpose |
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| Worked for equal treatment of women in New Deal programs; persuaded Roosevelt to appoint women to important posts |
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| Cuts in government spending and private spending; taking away New Deal programs |
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| Cause Of The End Of The New Deal |
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| The economy had been improving and Roosevelt wanted to balance the budget |
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| Drought and intense farming and grazing |
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| First African American to manage a government agency; director or Division of Negro Affairs of the Youth Administration |
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| Strike in which worker sit down on the job and refuse to leave the workplace until their demands are met |
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| Farmers That Suffered Most During The Great Depression |
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| Tenant farmers and sharecroppers |
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| Author of Uncle Tom's Children and Native Son; opened many American's eyes to what it meant to grow up black during the G.D. |
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| Belief that the U.S. should take an active role to aid the victims of international aggression |
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| France and Britain agreed to give Germany Sudetenland if Germany would stop expansion but Germany then took Czechoslovakia |
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| Outlawed war except in cases of self-defense signed by U.S. and 13 other countries |
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| Goal of Washington Naval Conference |
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| Ease arms and reduce tensions in Pacific; 5 Power Treaty banned construction of large warships for 10 years; 4 power treaty-U.S., Britain, France, and Japan agreed to respect one another's territory rights in Pacific |
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| German blitzkrieg, lightning war, on Poland, Sept, 1, 1939 |
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| Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. entered war next day |
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| The thought that the U.S. should avoid entangling agreements with other nations |
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| To stabilize German economy, U.S. would loan money to Germany who would use it to pay reparations to allies who would pay wartime debts to U.S. |
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| Declared that the U.S. would not recognize any Japanese territorial gains in China |
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| Reason Adolf Hitler Won Support In Germany |
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| Germans were attracted to his fierce anticommunism and attacks on the treaty of Versailles |
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| Reason for U.S. Embargo On Japan |
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| Japan was taking too much land in the Pacific |
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| General Douglas MacArthur |
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| Thought the U.S. should focus on the defeat of Japan |
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| Technique used by the allies in WWII of invading few strategic Japanese held islands and bypassing others |
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| Six nations led by Germany, Italy, and Japan |
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| Navajo Indians who used their native language to transmit secret information |
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| Results Of The Battle Of The Bulge |
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| A German counter offense that made a bulge in the allied defensive line, allies won but it slowed their invasion by 6 weeks |
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| Results Of The Battle Of The Coral Sea |
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| Two fleets fought without seeing each other, airplanes did the damage, U.S. won 3 day battle |
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| Japanese pilots deliberately sacrificed their lives by crashing their planes into allied ships |
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| Wanted an invasion of Turkey by sea, Operation Torch |
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| An invasion of French North Africa to attack German and Italian troops from the rear |
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| A national symbol of women that are independent and strong |
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| Reason WWII ended the depression |
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| War production rose over 300%; production of aircraft and ships; demand soared and unemployment dropped; crops |
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| Results Of The Battle Of Midway |
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| Air battle; turning point in Pacific; broke Japanese sea power and opened way for American troops |
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| Auschwitz, Maidanek, Dachau |
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| Worst of the death camps where Jews were killed and tortured |
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| Separated communists from non communists in Europe |
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| Led communist forces in China |
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| Gave money to Europe because prosperity would make communism less likely |
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| Recommended that Palestine be divided into an Arab state and a Jewish state |
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| Relationship between Cuba and U.S. |
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| Becoming increasingly tense; embargo |
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| Elected president of South Korea; anticommunist |
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| Nationalist government leader of China |
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| Led revolution in Cuba and overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista |
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| Felt the U.S. should contain aggressive Soviet actions by applying counterforce at strategic points |
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| Immediate Cause/End Of Korean War |
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| Cause: North Korea invaded South Korea June 25, 1950; End: Cease fire signed July 27, 1953 |
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| Example Of A Thaw In The Cold War |
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| Geneva Summit: Eisenhower met with S.U., Britain, and France to discuss disarmament and reunification of East and West Germany |
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| Black woman who refused to give up her seat for a white man and began bus boycott |
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| Allowed for the Attorney General to apply for a court order to delay for 80 days any strike that may endanger the public's health or safety |
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| Refused to conform to traditional ways of dressing, speaking, and acting |
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| Unions Reasons For Higher Wages |
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| To keep up with soaring prices |
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| American Life Depicted How On T.V. |
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| The traditional idea that women belonged at home |
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| Helped vets get back into civilian life by giving them loans for college |
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| Federal government built 41,000 miles of highway in 20 years |
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| Accused many innocent people of being communist; McCarthyism-to make sweeping accusations without producing clear evidence |
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| A list of suspected communists |
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| Elements Of Rock And Roll Music |
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| Blended country/western with Rhythm/Blues |
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| Forbade discrimination in public facilities such as restaurants and parks and in the use of federal funds |
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| American Indian Movement; they worked for more rights for Native Americans |
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| Military Industry Complex |
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| Eisenhower's term for the military establishment and the industries that supported it |
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| Cuban Missile Crisis Led To |
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| U.S. promised not to invade Cuba if Soviet would remove missiles; lessening interest in testing nuclear weapons |
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| Communist government of Eastern Europe had to use force to prevent people from fleeing |
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| Goal Of Women's Rights Movement |
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| Create freedom and equality; equal pay for equal work; medical and law to train and hire more women |
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| Economic Opportunity Act Of 1964 |
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| Established programs to teach people new job skills; to help poor |
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| To improve relations with Latin America; U.S. gave Latin American $20 billion in 10 years; mixed results |
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| Teach or give technical advice in less developed regions |
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| Major Goal Of Kennedy's Space Program |
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| Put a man on the moon by 1970 |
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| Reason Bay Of Pigs Failed |
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| The secret got out and Kennedy didn't send air support because he didn't want direct involvement |
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| Those who supported the Vietnam War |
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| Those who supported the Vietnam War |
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| Was favored in both North and South Vietnam but Diem wouldn't hold elections; led North Vietnam; Nationalist/communist |
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| Refused to hold elections knowing that Ho Chi Minh would win; led South Vietnam |
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| Elected president in South Vietnam in 1967 but people thought of him as a communist |
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| Helped improve relations with China; attempted to negotiate peace in Vietnam; Nixon's chief foreign policy advisor |
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| Greatest Advantage For U.S. Military |
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| Ways Counterculture Expressed Themselves |
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| Drugs; communes; informal dress; Woodstock |
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| Declared that a president could not send military forces into action for longer than 60 days unless Congress authorized the action |
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| Vietnam-Longest War In History |
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| Over 58,000 soldiers died, more than 30,000 wounded; cost was #150 billion |
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| Attitude Of Kennedy Administration In Early 1961 |
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| Didn't believe there was a problem in Vietnam |
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| Knew of the Nixon's secret fund |
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| Led testimony about Watergate |
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| Prime minister of Israel; signed peace treaty with Sadet (Egypt) |
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| Nixon Resigned and Gerald Ford sworn in |
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| President Carter's Energy Program |
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| Create the department of energy to research alternative energy; high taxes on crude oil; money from taxes used to pay for public transportation |
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| Accuse Nixon of covering up Watergate information |
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| Egyptian president who signed a peace treaty with Israel |
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| Disrupted U.S. economy; long lines for gas, if any; lower highway speed limits; U.S. needed to use energy wisely |
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| President Ford's response to inflation |
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| Temporary freeze on wages, prices, and rents |
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| Iranian Revolution Results |
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| American hostages; tensions increased |
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| U.S. invaded; believed that they were building an airfield for Soviets and Cuba |
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| Christians and Muslims fought; Palestinian refugees came causing more unrest; PLO-Palestine Liberation Organization; U.S. helped PLO officers leave; U.S. set up base for marines to protect Lebanon but withdrew after terrorist attacks; still unrest |
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| Overthrew government and new leaders were Sandanistas; U.S.-Nicaragua relations soured when Sandinistas grew close ties w/Soviets; U.S. helped contras, rebel group, but outlawed that when CIA mined a harbor |
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| Resent pressure from Congress to limit exports to U.S. but still strong ties |
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| Economy increased; taking steps to democratic government; hosted 1988 Olympics |
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| First woman to sit on Supreme Court; not all conservatives were happy |
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| Texas was denied a law that made flag burning illegal; some said freedom of speech, some say we shouldn't be able to destroy a national symbol |
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| President Bush's Response To Iraq's Invasion Of Kuwait |
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| Dispatched American troops to Saudi Arabia; urged other nations to force Saddam to leave Kuwait |
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| Germany became one nation again |
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| First woman to be the vice presidential candidate of a major political party |
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| The first African American to seek the presidential nomination of a major political party |
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| The first female in space |
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| Nuclear plant; experiment failure in 1979 raised fears of radioactive pollution |
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| Nuclear plan; explosion in 1868 in S.U.; spread radiation through much of Northern and Eastern Europe |
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