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| Want to narrow the gap with government involvement. "Bubble up". Give the poor money to buy stuff. Help the weak and the poor. |
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| Want less government. Lower taxes an rich and lower money for poor which will make the poor want to work. "Trickle down". Reverse discrimination. |
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| Freedom: From Superstition by Science, From Caste By Equal Opportunity,From government Tyranny By Democracy. Freedom leads to Individual Opportunity and Incentive. The free market equals production and the free market is driven by the consumer. |
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| Limited Government- American Style |
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| The founding fathers choose democracy over the fear of the government taking over. Separation of power through President, Congress, Courts (2), Legislature and President.Political Leaders as Coalition Builders. |
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| Political Leaders As Coalition Builders |
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| Macro Manipulatirs, Amoral Compromisers, Incrementalists, Vote chasers |
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| Accepts all the benefits of capitalism. Complete freedom: from supersition, from caste (Labor theory of value), From Government Tyranny (Withering of the State).Everything is distributed and benefit everyone. |
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| The basic ideas of Capitalism are bad. Reintegration of Fragmented Self: with non- rational self, With non- material self, with need for others, against corruption of modernity. Religion and sacrifice to help others. |
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| Depression +WWII+ Immediate Post War Period |
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| FDR and Truman who was the vice president made for limited process of African Americans who were in the military during the war but went back to their normal lives after. Women Stayed in factories. Labor unions gained better fringe benefits. |
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| Long term causes and allies feel out. After communist came to power the US and the Russian were having issues. And We decided to Russia for 4 years and public opinion was to help themselves. And Eisenhower didn't take any new ideas or help with civil rights. |
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| During most of presidancy he was to support foreign policy over cold war. Then LBT came into power after JFK was killed and he had liberal policy but then started Vietnamese War and then he started three movements for change known as the civil rights, Women's movement, and the war of poverty. The leaders of the movement (JFK, MLKJ, RFK) and these movements questioned moral values. |
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| 68'-92' Backlash+ Republican Dominance |
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| Nixon was forced out by Ford. Nixon was able to win by turning anger into votes. Jimmy Carter had the economy go into the tank and wasn't able to get anything through congress. Reagan was able to get his votes by taking Nixon's groups.Bush( 1 term). |
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| "Being too damn Liberals"- appealed to the middle class. Tried to get gays into the military and health care but failed since both parts of congress were controlled by the Republicans. Then he got reelected by putting the public on his side but the Monica situation got him almost impeached. |
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| Consistently conservative even before 911, he was more like Reagan then his dad. Foreign policy became aggressive after 911. |
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| Idealism and he was different and promised new things which made Americans want him. |
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| Was a man who wanted to do well but failed in the end. |
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| Long best friends got separated by Politics and in the end the king kills his best friend known as the bishop because they couldn't agree. |
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| Binding force and Be fixed of law |
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| What the Republicans are demanding in return for funding the government to keep it open. |
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| The response of the Democrats and President Obama to those Republican demands |
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| "No talking to you about this" |
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| The gap between Republicans and Democrats on the above issues |
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| Made for compromise but they dont want too |
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| President Obama's apparent lean in appointing the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank |
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| Yellen because she wants to regulate and stimulate the economy |
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| President Obama's current stance re regulating the carbon dioxide emissions of power plants. |
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| Using his powers to control them |
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| Stops insurance companies from discriminating on health care. Eliminated life time caps,children coverage till age 26, more genetic pills coverage, no more pre- existing conditions, business with 50 employees must provide health insurance |
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| The ways in which WWII set the stage for post war changes |
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| African Americans moved to the north which lead to less discrimination and legal emancipation. Standard of living, production increase, gender roles change. Hoovervilies and the Homeless. |
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| The major long term causes of the Cold War |
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| Poland and the structure of the governments in other Easter European countries, future of Germany , economic reconstruction of Europe, international policies toward the atomic bomb and atomic energy. 1917 Truman enemy but allies cause we needed to bet the other countries. |
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| The events which sparked Truman declaration of Cold War |
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| Violation of Yalta (didnt free Poland like promised) end of the war and free elections, northern part of Iran for oil, civil war going on in Greece, Russian trying to get Turkey to let them use the ports. |
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| Could the Cold War have been prevented |
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| "Only extraordinary action could have prevented conflict" |
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| Areas of progress, and limits on progress for women, minorities, and workers |
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| women went back to traditional roles, African Americans tried to vote in, a change for old labor unions. |
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| The causes of the post- war economic boom |
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| Through ensuring adequate purchasing power at the end of the war, offering veterans benefits that helped create the foundation for sustained postwar prosperity. |
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| The changes in America which resulted from that boom |
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| suburbia, consumerism, family lide, sex roles, tv and pop culture |
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| Eisenhower's role in social change |
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| conformity, minority looked at positively , GI Bill, VA loans, FHA mortgages |
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| The significance of "Brown v. The board of Education" |
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| Damaged to African American education being denied equality and illegal. This lead to 14th Amendment which required equal admission of all students to public schools |
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| Eisenhower's role in the civil rights push after the decision |
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| Most part of Eisenhower refused to do anything about civil rights even when pushed he only cared for African Americans voting rights. And he urged African Americans to be patient and waits for civil rights. |
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| The major stages in the development of the civil rights movement |
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| U.S. fourth circuit ruled 1959 parents must prove beyond a doubt that race was the basis for exclusion. Southern Manifesto promising resistance to the federal governemnt. |
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| The central characteristics of John Kennedy as personality |
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| cool, poised, relaxed and full of dry humor |
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| The central elements of his policy stance |
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| didnt want to punish liberal stuff wanted foreign policy more. Communism. |
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| The central elements of JFK actions as President before 1963 |
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| Social programs, tariff reduction, streamlining the economy and rapid economic expansion. Pressure labor unions which lead to revenue act of 1962, space programs, peace corps and special forces, bay of pigs operation in Cuba which was a failure, Berlin Crisis which lead to Berlin Wall, IRBMs built by S.U. but currently in Cuba. |
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| The central elements to JFK presidency after 1963 |
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| Free to be more liberal now, atomic test ban treaty of August 1963, voter education project, Kennedy's Bill race, Ban nuclear testing in the air, job training and education and nutrition and direct aid to the poor, civil rights and peace and poverty. |
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| The central elements of Lyndon Johnson as a personality |
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| Success depended on winning the favor of people in power, got things done, avoiding conflict and forging compromise, sensitivity to individual personalities, wooing. Needed to be in control. |
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| The central elements of his domestic policy |
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| Civil rights (voting rights acts of 1965), poverty(whole goal to decrease it), health care ans education legislation. |
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| The major reasons for Americans growing involvement in Vietnam before 1954 |
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| We got in by helping France and communism was in control in helping (little bit, little but at a time) |
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| The central reasons why Lyndon Johnson deepened America's involvement in Vietnam |
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| "I'm not going to be the president who saw southeast Asia go the way China went", Three Americans presidents had pledged their support to Vietnamese Independence and can't turn their backs. |
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| The meaning of the term "liberal consensus" |
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| The things that were originally agreed upon |
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| The reasons for the radicalization of civil rights movement |
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| served as a bell wether for incipient domestic tensions |
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| The reasons for the radicalization of campus protesters |
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| Kennedy was able to increase voters and the students were fearless |
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| The reasons for the radicalization of the woman movement |
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| The evolution of the ideas of Robert Kennedy during the 60s |
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| personal growth and political radicalization, slowly suffered, helping victims |
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| The reasons why Nixon won the 1968 election |
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| he focused on middle America, and the idea of the new Nixon. |
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| The main elements of Nixon's domestic policy |
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| The main elements of Nixon's foreign policy |
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| He made friends with communists and wanted to end the war and bring boys home. Nixon doctrine. |
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| The reasons for the end of social reform in behalf of greater equality |
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| increasing antiwar movement |
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| General description of the central characteristics of the 70s |
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| The economy seemed stagnant |
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| The keys to Reagan's successes as a President |
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| The overwhelming intensity with which he believed in a few basic ideas and the extraordinary capacity he had to communicate those beliefs to the American people. |
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| The central elements of Reagan's domestic policies |
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| cut from welfare programs, slashing taxes, increase in defense expenditures affirmative action |
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| The central elements of Reagans foreign policies |
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| military strength and anticommunism |
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| The reasons for Reagan's victory over Mondale in 1984 |
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| He made the voters believe he was the better canidate |
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| The major setbacks in Reagan's second term |
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| Didn't believe in the soviet unions motives |
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| The central issues confronting the nation at the beginning of the 1990's |
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| advances in civil rights protections for African Americans and social welfare, "summed up the last decade" |
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| The issues used by Bush to defeat Dukakus in 1988 |
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| opposed death penalty, pledge allegiance law, and authorized weekend for criminals who committed non violent crimes (Bush turned it against him) |
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| The views of Bush's sucesses and failures as President, 1988-92 |
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| SAddam Hussein, Kuwait, Dessert Storm, unemployment at 7% |
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| The reasons why Clinton won the 1992 election |
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| he posed a strategy, a vision of a renewed community and a campaign apparatus prepared to implement a wining plan. |
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