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Truman
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integrated the armed forces
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Maginot Line
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French trench; hoped to ward off German attack with this
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Mein Kempf
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Hitler's detailed, published outline of his plans for WWII
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Mussolini's agreement with the Catholic Church
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Treaty of Versailles
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Manhattan Project
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group of scientists developed the atom bomb here
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Hiroshima
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firts atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city @
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Sputnik 1957
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USSR launched satellite into space to prove capability of delivering nuclear payload
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Black Muslims
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Malcolm X led and later left this organization
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Blitzkrieg
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German new style of War in WWII
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Holocaust
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Hitler's attempted genocide of the Jews
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Ho Chi Minh
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Led the communists in Vietnam
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Brown v. Board
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ruling that outlawed segregation in schools
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Rosa Parks
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refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, sparked Civil Rights movements
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Television
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reason that the "second reconstruction" was more a success than the first
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Reassurance treaty
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Bismarck's secret treaty with Russia; Kaiser Wilhelm I allowed it to lapse
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George Wallace
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supported segregation and had MLK arrested
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Black Panther Party
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Huey Newton helped found this group
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Mussolini
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fascist leader of Italy
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James Meredith
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entry to Ole Miss was blocked by Governor Ross Barnett
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Brought to national spotlight through the bus boycotts in Montgomery
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Clyde Kennard
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1st African American to enroll in USM
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Submarine
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German use of this weapon led to Americas entry in to WWI
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Poland
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Country that Hitler invaded on Sept 1, 1939, began WWII
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Selma
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MLK's march from ____ to Montgomery led to support for Voting Rights act
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Orlando
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led Italian delegation @ Treaty of Versailles
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D-Day; Normandy
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made defeat of Germans in WWII possible
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Soviet Union, Russia
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did the most to defeat Germany in WWII
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Battle of Somme
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65,000 Polish casualities on day 1 in this battle...
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Wilfred Owen
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British poet who wrote Dulce et Decorum est and was disabled
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Bull Connor
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Birmingham police officer who often arrested MLK Jr
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Marne 1914
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German attack defeated at Paris
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Containment
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U.S. involvement in Vietnam, attempting to contain communism
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Treaty of Versailles
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ended WWI and made WWII possible
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Duce
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Mussolini's title in Italy
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Evolutionary Meliorism
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WWI ended this idea
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Machine guns; artillery
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2 dominant weapons of WWI
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Bar Barossa
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Hitler's codename for invasion of Russia; largest invasion
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War in Vietnam
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reason why Johnson's Great Society failed
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WWI Began as...
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struggle between Austria and Russia
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