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11th Grade
03/31/2011

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Fusion
Definition
hydrogen bomb operates under this, to pout two hydrogen atoms together
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Edward Teller
Definition
hungarian refugee, "father of the hydrogen bomb"
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Klaus Fuchs
Definition
british scientist, veteran of the manhatten project, gives hydrogen bomb secret to u.s.s.r.
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Syngman Rhee
Definition
korean leader of south korea
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Police Action
Definition
in korea, war that was fought but not officially declared
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Douglas McArthur
Definition
head of the UN army
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Pusan Peninsula
Definition
where korean communists pushed the u.s. to
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Inchon
Definition
turning point of the korean war
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Definition
supreme ally commander of us troops & runs for president
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Richard Nixon
Definition
california senator runs for v.p. under eisenhower
gave the "checkers speech"
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McCarthyism
Definition
a witchhunt for communists
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Joseph McCarthy
Definition
says that he has proof that 500 spies(communists) are working in the white house
chairman of H.U.A.C.
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H.U.A.C.
Definition
house committee on unamerican activities
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Roy Cohn
Definition
young jewish lawyer
assisstant to McCarthy
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Hollywood Ten
Definition
McCarthy called them out as communists
some were communists
screen actors guild movie directors
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Taking the 5th
Definition
5th amendment says you cant be forced to testify against yourself
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
vietnamese diplomat (north vietnam)
fight with americans to be liberated
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General Nguyen Von Giap
Definition
student of american history
leads the vietnamese army
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DienBienPhu
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10 thousand of most elite commandos(french) land here in a valley surrounded by jungle
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Geneva Conference
Definition
meeting in switzerland
usa, france, ussr, and england
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Definition
roman catholic (non communists)
controls south vietnam, u.s. supports him
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Robert Goddard
Definition
american scientist
talks about building a machine to go to the moon
found a way to liquify oxygen
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Werner Von Braun
Definition
german scientist
stumbled onto goddard's research
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Sputnik
Definition
satelite for russians in outerspace
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NASA
Definition
eisenhower presents this civilian owned agency
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Summit Meeting
Definition
richard nixon is sent over to ussr to meet Nikita Kruschev
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Francis Gary Powers
Definition
u-2 pilot, encountered engine trouble was shot down
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Fidel Castro
Definition
former baseball player overthrows an anti-communist, alliance with ussr for cuba
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Che Guevara
Definition
argentinian doctor
planned the revolution (communist)
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materialism and conformity
Definition
two things that were big
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Dr. Benjamin Spock
Definition
wrote the new modern way to raise your child
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Beatniks
Definition
first non-conformists, anti conformity and anti materialistic
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Dr. Jonas Salk
Definition
american doctor who came up with a vaccine for polio
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Military-Industrial Complex
Definition
dont let your economy become so entangeled with the military
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highways
Definition
eisenhowers biggest legacy
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bomb shelters
Definition
everybody had one of these to protect themselves in case a bomb attack
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hula hoops
Definition
new fad of the 50s that everyone had and knew how to use
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segregation
Definition
races being seperated
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integration
Definition
races can be together
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Definition
a man sues because his kids are not allowed into a white school
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Earl Warren
Definition
republican candidate that ran against eisenhower
chief justice
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Martin Luther King
Definition
created slogan we shall overcome
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civil disobedience
Definition
non violent passive resistence
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Rosa Parks
Definition
was part of the montgomery bus boycott
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Little Rock 9
Definition
nine of the smartest black students picked to see if they could get into white schools
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Orville Faubus
Definition
called national guard to stop the little rock 9
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Hungarian Revolt
Definition
hungarians tried to overthrow the communists
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Suez Incident
Definition
israel took the canal from egypt
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