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| leader of the brittan in negotiations |
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| the German invasion strategy which involved an overwhelming combination of air attack and fast moving armored strikes. |
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| made up of Great Britain and France, it is significant because they were the opposing side to Germany in 1939 and the 1940s. |
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| the unoccupied part of France that was not in control of Hitler but under control of French officials who cooperated with Hitler |
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| a French General who lead a group of French leader to flee to Great Britain. He is significant because in Great Britain they organized resistance to German and Vichy control of France |
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| the German air force, it is significant because it was involved in a failed plan to take over Britain in the Battle of Britain |
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| made up of Japan, Germany, and Italy |
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| a Japanese General who pushed the government not to accept any compromise with America, he is significant because he forced Japan’s government to resign and he took over Japan also |
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| people who do not believe in the use of military force. It is significant because most Americans wanted to only fight to defend their country |
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| meant to prevent the nation from being drawn into war |
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| not aiding on side or the other, it is significant because America wanted to remain neutral in the conflict in Europe. |
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| a speech given by Roosevelt where he compared the spread of war to the spread of a contagious disease |
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| a policy that said that countries at war were allowed to purchase American goods as long as they paid cash and picked up their orders in American ports |
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| FDR’s opponent in the election of 1940 |
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| allowed the nation to send weapons to Great Britain regardless of its ability to pay |
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| an agreement between FDR and Winston Churchill that proclaimed the shared goals of the United States and Britain in opposing Hitler and his allies |
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| the leader of the mobilization effort he was also the Army Chief of Staff. He was significant because he also played an important role in developing the nation’s military strategy. |
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| the leader of the Women’s Army Corps, |
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| a symbolic figure which represented the working women of the war |
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| the most significant program of WWII. It is significant because it was a top-secret American program to build an atomic bomb |
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| a powerful weapon that used energy released by the splitting of atoms |
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| a physicist who led American scientists to be the first country to make an atomic bomb. |
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| head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He is significant because he called for a march on Washington D.C. to protest unfair treatment of African Americans. |
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| gave some Mexican workers the chance to work temporarily in the U.S. it is significant because it helped with the demand for farm labor during WW II. |
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| riots where white sailors stationed in L.A. fought with groups of Mexican American youths during a week of terrible violence |
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| italy dictator, made totalitarian dictatorship |
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| system of government that stressed the glory of the government rather than individual rights of the people |
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| one leader with unchallenged power |
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| one person with control of all aspects of life |
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| fascist general who took over spain |
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| emperor of Ethiopia when Italy invaded it |
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| brittish prime minister. he and Edouard Daladier agreed to allow hitler to annex the Sudetenland |
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| plan for german U-boats would travel in groups underwater and attacked U.S. ships at night to avoid detection |
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| a famed German General who was in charge of heading the Italian forces in the battle of El Alamein |
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| U.S. plan for attack starting in Africa and leading into Europe |
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| commander of operation torch for U.S. |
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| planed invasion of Europe by U.S. |
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| general in charge of leading U.S. troops in Operation Overlord, led U.S. into Normandy and successfully through Europe |
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| a segregated unit of African Americans who were the first ever to receive training as pilots in the U.S. military |
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| the day that the Allied forces would begin Operation Overlord |
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| an attempt from Germany to gain back vital land from the Allies |
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| provided relief for the American force in Bastogne on December 26 |
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| hostility toward or prejudice against Jews |
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| november 9 + 10. a riot against Jews |
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| labor camps meant to hold what Hitler called enemies of the State (jews) |
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| neighborhoods in a city to which a goup of people are confined |
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| the killing of an entire people |
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| a Nazi plan to exterminate many Jews |
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| an organization that was supposed to help Jewish people from the Nazis |
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| a genocidal campaign against the jews during WWII |
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| a leading Nazi who was sentenced to death at the hands of the United Staes |
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| the general in charge of commanding a small force of Americans and some Filipino soldiers in the Philippines |
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| a march involving the surrendered soldiers in Bataan to march through the steaming forests, it is significant because it killed some 7,000 to 10,000 soldiers |
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| led a group of 16 American bombers on a daring air raid of Tokyo and several Japanese cities, it came to be known as Doolittle’s raid. He is significant because the air raid gave the American people something to celebrate and it worried and angered the Japanese leaders. |
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| sent two U.S. aircraft carriers to attack Japanese forces to prevent Japan from attacking Port Moresby, he is significant because the attack was a success in halting the Japanese forces for the first time, in the Battle of Coral Sea. |
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| a battle in an island in the Pacific Ocean called Midway, the battle consisted of four Japanese aircraft carriers attacking Midway. The Japanese lost this fight to America. It is significant because it was a turning point in the balance of power between America and Japan. |
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| Native Americans of the Navajo nation who served in the Marines translating messages into a coded version of the Navajo language which was too complicated to be un-coded by the Japanese |
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| a type of attack used in the Battle of Leyte Gulf it involved the pilots of the Japanese planes to intentionally crash into the enemy ship |
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| a battle in a small volcanic island south of Tokyo called Iwo Jima, the Americans beat the Japanese in this battle |
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| a battle in which the Japanese soldiers used tunnels and caves to carefully hide and kill American troops. America did win the battle in the end. It is significant because the lessons learned on Okinawa would have a major impact on the final days of the war. |
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| limiting the Amount of a certain product each individual can get |
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| newspaper writer who wrote about the war from the point of view of the men in the Battlefield. |
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| wrote cartoons about the war featuring two ordinary soldiers named Willie and Joe |
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| forced relocation and confinement to camps, used in WWII by americans to intern the Japanese |
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| a meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to decide how to finish the war in Europe. It is significant because in the meeting they decided what to do with Germany, the fate of Poland and other Eastern European countries, also Stalin said he would declare war on Japan. |
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| to take control of a place by placing troops in it. It is significant because the Allies decided to occupy Germany by dividing it into 4 different sections |
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| Victory in Europe day, it was May 8, 1945 and it was the day Germany surrendered |
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| the Vice President for Roosevelt and after his death he became the President. He is significant because he made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan. |
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| the American B-29 that flew over the city of Hiroshima and dropped the atomic bomb. |
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| the day that Japan surrendered in the war September 2, 1945 |
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| an organization made to unite around 50 countries and prevent future wars as well as encourage cooperation among nations |
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| a meting in the German city of Potsdam to have Truman speak with Stalin to make sure that he would keep his promise of not trying to spread communism through Europe, but it was not a success. It is significant because it made conflict between the Soviet Union and America. |
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| an era of high tension between the United States and the Soviet Union |
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| a line dividing the Communist part of Europe with the Democracy Part of Europe. It is significant because it made it seem like the United States and Great Britain were Enemies of the Soviet Union, the Soviets used that as an excuse to rebuild their military force. |
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| the U.S. policy that provided economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets |
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| an American Diplomat and expert on the Soviet union who created the containment policy |
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| President Truman’s pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism. It is significant because it helped the Greek and Turkish governments resist Soviet expansion |
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| a plan for reconstructing Europe after WWII that was made by George C. Marshal |
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| a program in which the United States and Britain shipped supplies by air to the people living in Western Berlin |
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| (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was a system of common defense against the Soviets, the way it works is if one of the countries in the alliance were attacked then the others in the alliance would help |
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| the act that helped veterans make a smooth entry into civilian life by providing money for attending college or for advanced job training |
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| a dramatic rise in the birthrate following World War Two. It is significant because it helped the postwar economy make a smooth shift from providing the tools of war to providing products of peace; larger cars. |
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| a plan proposed by President Truman that included a number of programs in the tradition of the New Deal. |
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| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| a document that stated all human beings are created free and equal, it also tried to set standards for human rights |
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| helps poor countries build their economies by providing grants and loans to help with projects that could provide jobs and wealth |
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| The International Monetary Fund |
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| an organization designed to encourage economic policies that promote international trade |
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| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
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| an international organization that worked to reduce tariffs and other barriers to trade. It was significant because it promoted economic cooperation. |
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| the leader of china's nationalist goverment |
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| the leader of the Chinese communists |
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| the House Un-American Activities Committee |
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| a committee from the H. of R. with the purpose of investigating the full range of radical groups in the U.S. more specifically the communists |
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| a group of ten writers who refused to share their political beliefs with the HUAC, as a result they were sent to jail for a year |
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| a former government official accused o being part of a 1930s plot to place communists inside the government |
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| a U.S. senator who wildly claimed that government officials were communists |
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| McCarthy's tactic of spreading fear and making baseless charges |
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| the dividing line at 38degrees north latitude, it separated the north soviet controlled korea with the allied controlled south korea |
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| the first leader of the Democratic people's Republic of Korea, or otherwise known as communist north korea |
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| the elected leader of south Korea, but held dictatorial control over S. Korea |
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| a phrase describing the UN intervention in Korea in 1950. UN sending troops to Korea |
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| a port city on Korea's western Coast where the UN troops attacked and made a comeback for S. Korea |
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| a small town in korea where the peace meetings were held between the north and south koreans |
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| Eisenhower's vice president in the 1952 election. gave the checkers speech |
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| the Secretary of State for Eisenhower. helped U.S. with brinkmanship, massive retaliation, and he was one of the first leaders of the CIA |
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| the diplomatic art of going to the brink of war without actually going to war |
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| the pledge that the U.S. would use overwhelming force against the Soviet Union, including nuclear weapons, to settle a serious conflict. |
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| Central Intelligence Agency, created in 1947 to collect information about-and spy on-foreign governments. overthrew governments in Guatemala and Iran |
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| the new leader of the soviet union after Joseph Stalin in march 1953. |
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| a military alliance with the soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe |
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| a meeting of the heads of a government. like the one in Geneva Switzerland |
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| Southeast Asia Treaty Organization that agreed to work together to resist Communist agression |
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| declared the right of the U.S. to help, on request, any nation in the middle east trying to resist armed Communist aggression. used in Lebanon in 1958 to help put down a popular uprising against its government. |
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| a strong nuclear bomb that got its power from fusing together hydrogen atoms |
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| intercontinental ballistic missiles that could travel thousands of miles and strike very close to their intended targets, also delivering powerful nuclear weapons |
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| a satelite that was launched into orbit by the soviets |
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| an object that orbits around the Earth |
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| National Aeronautics and Space Administration. an american agency that took charge of the nation's programs for exploring outer space. |
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| harmful particles of radioactive material produced by nuclear explosions |
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| an actress who played the role of Lucy Ricardo in the TV show I Love Lucy |
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| an invention that worked much like the tubes did back then for the old computers however a transistor was much smaller than the tubes and didnt break as easily |
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| a single piece of material that includes a number of transistors and other electronic components, also known as computer chips |
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| uses a killed or weakened form of a germ to help the body build defenses against the germ |
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| a town in New York city made by Bill and Alfred Levitt |
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| the term used to describe the warmer parts of the US that americans began to move to, populated the southern states |
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| the interstate highway system |
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| a system designed to be a network of high speed roads for interstate travel |
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| winner of 1960 election, led america through bay of pigs invasion, berlin crisis, and cuban missile crisis. |
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| JFK's brother, attorney general |
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| U.S. invaded Cuba to try to over though their dictator Fidel Castro |
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| vice president to John F. Kennedy. He is significant because he visited Western Berlin to reassure its people that America would not abandon them in the time of the Berlin Crisis. |
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| when the Soviet Union put nuclear missile sites in Cuba in retaliation to the U.S. putting some in Turkey |
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| a volunteer organization that took people to serve as educators, health care workers, and agricultural advisors in places like Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
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| part of Kennedy’s foreign-policy; it offered billions of dollars in aid to build schools, hospitals, roads, low cost housing, and power plants in Latin Americ |
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| Kennedy’s strategy that involved strengthening conventional American forces |
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| the first lady to John F. Kennedy; she is significant because she contributed to the sense of glamour and energy that surrounded Kennedy’s presidency. |
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| the nickname given to Kennedy’s plans for changing the nation, it is significant because it helped poor Americans, among other things. |
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| word that means authorization to act. It is significant because since Kennedy didn’t have the clear mandate things like lowering taxes would be harder to be done with congress. |
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| the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice. He is significant because his controversial court rulings greatly extended individual’s rights. |
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| the Supreme Court under the Chief Justice of Earl Warren. It is significant because they made a series of decisions concerning other reforms. This gave individuals more rights. |
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| the person convicted of killing president John F. Kennedy. He is significant because his murder by Jack Ruby caused some People to question whether Oswald had acted alone in killing the president. |
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| the commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of Kennedy. It is significant because they reported that there was no conspiracy and that Oswald and Ruby had each acted alone |
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| Johnson’s decision to make programs to fight poverty in the United States. It is significant because out of it came the economic Opportunity Act. |
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| a program that came from the Economic Opportunity Act. It is significant because it offered work-training programs for unemployed youth |
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| The Volunteers in Service to America |
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| or VISTA was another program that came from the Economic Opportunity Act. It is significant because it provided help to poor communities in the United States, like the peace corps did in foreign nations |
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| term used to describe the domestic programs of Johnsons administration. |
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| the Republican candidate for president in the 1964 election. He is significant because he suggested nuclear weapons in Vietnam, this scared voters and it helped Johnson win the election. |
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| a program that provides free health care for poor people. It is significant because it helped poor people be entitled to medical care when sick. |
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| a health care program for people over the age of 65. It is significant because it helped senior citizens receive health care when sick. |
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| the guideline for intervention in Latin American countries to prevent communist leaders from emerging. |
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| a crisis in which a U.S. spy ship called the Pueblo was captured by North Korean forces. |
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| Congress of Racial Equality, was a protest group for African Americans’ rights using nonviolent protest |
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| the first African American to become a Major League baseball player. |
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| a lawyer who joined Charles Hamilton Houston in the attack of the concept separate but equal. He is significant because eventually he brought the court ruling in Plessey v. Ferguson to be unconstitutional, getting rid of legal segregation. |
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| nine African American students in Little Rock, Arkansas who were prevented from entering an integrated school by the Arkansas National Guard |
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| an African American woman who refused to give up her seat to white people on a Montgomery bus. She is significant because when she was punished it sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. |
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| The Montgomery bus boycott |
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| when African Americans boycotted the Montgomery bus system to fight for equal right on the busses. It is significant because after a year of boycott, the Court held that segregation on busses was unconstitutional. |
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| a civil rights activist who fought to end racial segregation. He is significant because he led the Montgomery Improvement Association, also the SCLC. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference was an organization that would organize protest activities all across the nation. It is significant because it committed to mass nonviolent action to end racial segregation |
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| leader in India’s struggle for independence from Great Britain |
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| the founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a group made to conduct nonviolent protest for equal treatment for African Americans |
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| a group of African American Protestors who would go across the country and look for opportunities to do nonviolent protests |
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| a group of African American Protestors who would go across the country and look for opportunities to do nonviolent protests |
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| an African American who wanted to enroll to the University of Mississippi but he was rejected because he was Black. He was significant because when Kennedy ordered 500 federal marshals to protect him in the school it showed that Kennedy did truly care for African American rights. |
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| the head of the NAACP in Mississippi, he is significant because he was killed just hours after Kennedy’s speech and his killer, Byron De La Beckwith, was punished (eventually) showing that laws are equal for everyone under the federal government. |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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| banned discrimination in employment in public accommodations |
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| the voter education project |
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| a program that sought to register African Americans to vote |
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| banned states from taxing citizens to vote |
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| a project that required college students willing to spend their summer in Mississippi, registering African Americans to vote |
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| Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
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| a group who wanted African Americans in the democratic National Convention |
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| an MFDP leader who presented the group's case to be in the Democratic National Convention in Aug. 1964 |
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| the Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| an Act made so all African Americans could not be stopped from voting if they qualified. |
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| segregation that exists though custom and practice rather than by law |
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| a commission given the job to study the causes of urban rioting; it is significant because it said that poverty and discrimination are to blame for urban riots. |
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| man who replaced John Lewis as head of the SNCC; he is significant because he got rid of the philosophy of nonviolence in the SNCC |
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| the policy of African Americans depending on themselves to solve problems |
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| a group made by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California; they rejected nonviolence and called for violent revolution as a means of African American liberation |
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| a minister for Black Muslims who at first was against nonviolence and later favored cooperation |
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| The Poor People’s Campaign |
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| an expansion of the Civil Rights Movement which focused mainly on poor people. |
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| the head of the SCLC who later leaded the Poor People’s Campaign |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1968 |
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| also called the Fair Housing Act, banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing |
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| programs set up by the government in businesses and colleges that gives preference to minorities and women in hiring and admissions |
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| African American who became the Congressman for Atlanta Georgia. He is significant because he was an example of African Americans gaining more power in government. |
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| an African American who became Georgia’s first African American member of Congress since reconstruction; also he was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of Atlanta. |
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| an African American who founded his own civil rights operation called Operation PUSH; he is significant because when he ran for Democratic presidential nomination it showed that it is possible for an African American to become president. |
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| nationalist leader of vietnam who was communist |
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| the League for the Independence of Vietnam was a group who wanted Vietnam to become an independent nation |
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| eisenhower's theory that communism would spread to neighboring countries |
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| a valley in northwestern Vietnam where the French forces surrendered to Vietminh |
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| a meeting in Geneva Switzerland to work out a peace agreement and arrange for indochina's future. |
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| the Roman Catholic leader of South Vietnam , backed by US but unpopular among his own people |
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| the NLF's military forces, wanted to overthrow Diem's regime |
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| enabled the president to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the U.S." |
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| a series of massive coordinated attacks through S. Vietnam |
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| the Secretary of defense for both Kennedy and Johnson, shaped U.S. strategy in Vietnam |
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| a vocal critic of the Vietnam war. ran for the Democratic nomination for presidency against Kennedy and Humphrey |
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| Johnson's vice president, ran for president in 1968 against Nixon |
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| former Alabama governor who ran for president as a third party candidate; he was quite successful |
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| Operation Rolling Thunder |
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| a bombing campaign over N. vietnam in March 1965 |
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| a network of paths that began in North Vietnam and ended in South Vietnam that brought supplies to Vietcong and NVA |
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| the commander of the U.S. ground troops in South Vietnam |
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| U.S. attempts to win the hearts and the minds of the South Vietnamese people |
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| the people in the U.S. who opposed the Vietnam war |
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| people in the U.S. who supported the Vietnam War's goals |
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| head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave the wars critics a public voice via TV committee hearings |
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| National Security Advisor to Nixon, met with Le Duc Tho in Paris to try to achieve peace with Vietnam |
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| where the U.S. would turn over most of the fighting in Vietnam to the South while gradually bringing U.S. troops home. |
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| the way Nixon described the Americans who disapprove of antiwar protesters and generally supported the governments goals in Vietnam |
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| when U.S. troops under the command of Lieutenant William Calley had entered the village of My Lai on a search and destroy mission |
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| secret government documents that traced U.S. involvement in the war all the way back to the Truman years. |
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| a senator from South Dakota who ran against Nixon in the 1972 election |
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| lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 |
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| a communist force that gained control of Cambodia in 1975 |
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| reaffirmed congress's constitutional right to declare war and set a 60 day limit on the president sending U.S. troops in foreign countries without declaring war |
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| a famous feminist leader in the 1960s and wrote the book The Feminine Mystique. She is significant because she was one of the first leaders of NOW and greatly impacted the Women’s Liberation Movement. |
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| core belief of the women’s liberation movement and it meant that women and men should be socially, politically, and economically equal |
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| The National Organization for Women |
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| a women’s rights organization that fought discrimination in the workplace, schools and justice system. It is significant because it campaigned for the passage of the ERA. |
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| The Equal Rights Amendment |
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| a proposed amendment that promised equal treatment for men and women in all situations, not just employment |
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| an outspoken critic of the ERA and she argued that it would take away legal protections that women already had without conferring any new benefits |
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| a landmark supreme court case in which the supreme court struck down state laws that banned abortion. |
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| The American Indian Movement |
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| a movement that called for renewal of traditional cultures, economic independence, and better education for Indian children |
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| one of AIM’s best-known leaders |
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| the fair distribution of advantages and disadvantages in society |
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| the leader of the National Farm Workers Association who was a key participant in the great grape boycott. |
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| a shortened form of mexicanos, it was the nickname that Mexican Americans chose for their movement |
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| a former boxer who founded the Crusade for Justice |
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| one of the founders of the Mexican American Youth Organization |
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| a party that campaigned for bilingual education for children of migrant workers, and an end to job discrimination |
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| the name by which many Puerto Ricans refer to themselves by |
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| basing foreign policies on realistic views of national interest rather than on broad rules or principles |
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| the efforts were referred to for taking steps to ease tensions with Cold War enemies |
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| the name given the summit meetings in Moscow between Nixon and Brezhnev about the use of strategic military missiles |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was the group of countries who used an oil embargo against the U.S. among other nations |
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| where someone like Henry Kissinger would travel to different groups trying to work out separate agreements to end the fighting. It is significant because Kissinger used it to bring peace between Israel and Egypt, then Israel and Syria. |
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| a flight on July 16, 1969 from Cape Kennedy to the moon. It is significant because it was a victory for the U.S. won the space race |
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| one of the three astronauts who were in Apollo 11, he was the first man on the moon |
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| the event where people working for Nixon broke into the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel-office complex |
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| the rule that a president must be able to keep official conversations and meetings private |
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| The Saturday night massacre |
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| when Nixon told Richardson to fire Cox, instead Richardson resigned. So then Nixon told Richardson’s assistant to fire Cox, instead he quit his job. After that Nixon convinced the third-ranking official in the Justice Department to fire Cox. |
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| a written record of a spoken event |
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| the Republican leader of the House of Representatives who beame president after Nixon resigned |
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| James Earl “Jimmy” Carter |
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| the president who won the election against Ford in 1976. |
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| the second agreement made between the U.S. and the Soviets. It called for limits on certain kinds of nuclear weapons |
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| an agreement between Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin, in the agreement Israel and Egypt would agree to work to negotiate a peace treaty |
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| Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
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| the new Islamic leader of Iran. He is significant because he was not a friend to the Untied States like the past leader shah. |
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| president who made reaganomics |
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| a coalition of conservative media commentators, think tanks, and grassroots Christian groups |
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| televangelist leader of the new right. founded moral majority |
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| advised reagan on policy issues and fiercely protected his interests |
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| budget director who reagan hired to sell his plan of reaganomics to congress. |
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| a theory that states that tax cuts and business incentitives stimulate investment. investment encourages economic growth. and a growing economy in turn results in an increased supply of goods and services |
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| the amount by which government spending for a year exceeds government income |
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| Strtegic Defense Initiative |
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| put a shield in space to protect U.S. from soviet missiles |
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| led a big protest in Poland against not being able to have independent trade unions |
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| independent union led by Lech Walesa |
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| a successor to Leonid Brezhnev and the new leader of the soviet union. he wanted to strike a deal with U.S. |
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| intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty ordered the destruction of a whole class of weapons |
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| the South African government's official policy of legalized racial segregation throughout society. |
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| the secret U.S. sales of weapons to Iran in an attempt to secure the release of U.S. hostages held in Lebanon |
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| carried out the plan of the Iran-contra affair |
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| the vice president to reagan and later becomes president |
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| media freedom on the soviet union under Mikhail Gorbachev |
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| reconstructing the corrupt government bureaucracy in the soviet union |
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| peaceful revolution tat took away communist power in Czechoslovakia |
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| the leader of the Russian Republic who saved Gorbachev when he was seized by hard line communist leaders |
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| Tienanmen Square Massacre |
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| large pro democracy protest in china that resulted in the government using military force killing hundreds. |
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| the ruthless dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait |
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| the U.S. led was to end Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990-1991 |
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| worked with F. W. de Klerk to end apartheid |
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| new type of spacecraft that could be reused after each use |
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| actively raised and lowered interest rates to help avoid recession or inflation |
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| the savings and loan crisis |
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| financial disaster in which the federal government had to step in and pay back loans for many S&L institutions |
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| chosen by Reagan in 1981 to be the first woman in the U.S. supreme court |
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| African American who Bush nominated to the supreme court in 1991 |
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