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History
9th Grade
06/09/2011

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woodrow Wilson
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president at the start of world war 1
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Harry S Truman
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Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Ronald Reagan
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President that ended the cold war and used the star wars method
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dwight D. Esenhower
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presiden who created the federal highway act
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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president during pearl harbor and the New Deals
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Llyndon B. Johnson
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Presiden who sent the first combat troops to vietnam
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Richard M. Nixon
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president who created SALT 1 and first to visit communist China
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Andrew Johnson
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president who was impeache by the radical republicans
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Theodore Roosevelt
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president who created the big stick diplomacy
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Gulf of Token Incident
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N. witnamese attack 2 US detroyers sitting on international waters I(august 1964)
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Tet offensive
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attaking approxmatly 100 S. Vienamese townes and cities(1968)
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Little Rock 9
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a goup of african american students who wereenvolve in littl erock central highschool in 1957. students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school
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Brown VS Board
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(1954) US supreme court case in which the court seeled unanimously that racial segregation in pulblic school swiolated th e14th amendment tho the US constitution
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Feminine Mysitque
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A book about women and how they are nto happy about being housewives
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Geraldine Ferraro
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First female vice president
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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appointed to US supreme court justice
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Marshall Plan
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when Us sent over money to europe to help rebuild after the war
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soviet Atomic Threat
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When Us were paranoid about a bomb hitting them. Duck and cover was created and shelters were built
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SSA
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Social Security Act: Senior citizens get monthly payments when they retire
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AAA
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Agriculture Adjustment Act: Government will pay farmers ot destroy some of their crops and kill some of their cattle
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CCC
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Civilian Conservaton Corps: single men come to work and sleep, be fed and live there
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FDIC
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Federal Deposit Isurance Corporation: Insures people deposits of up to $5,000,000
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Introductory Rate
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A low apr that last a short time
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Fixed Rate
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An apr that does not change throughout the year
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APR
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Annual Percentage Rate: Intrest rate for a whole year
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Nellie Bly
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Wrote about the truth for mental institutes (went into one)
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Upton Sinclair
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wrote the jungle that was muckraking meat factories
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Ida Tarbell
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muckraked the oil industry that was monopolized by John Rockefeller
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Jacob Riis
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muckracked the life in the slums of New York
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Captins of Industry
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A capitalist who owned a personal fortune who contributed to the country some way
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Robber Barons
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A capitalist who became wealthy by unethical means and explotation
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Muckrackers
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A journalist, author, or filmaker who investigates and exposes social issues
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Buying on Margin
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The practice of using a loan to buy stocks
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Causes of Dustbowl
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overgrazing and overfarming
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Migrants
Definition
people who move in search for work
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Black Sunday
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"Black Blizzard" - April 14, 1935

 

A giant dust storm

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Black Tuesday
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When the stock market crashed
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Laissez Faire
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"Hands Off" (in french)
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Immagration Pull Factor
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Something in a country that would draw you to it
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Immagration Push Factor
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something that u dont like about your country that would make you leave
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Why were the Japs so strong
Definition
Broke rules, defense in dept, extreme nationalism, early training
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