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History Final
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10th Grade
04/29/2015

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Fidel Castro
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Communist leader of Cuba
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Anti-communist leader of south Vietnam
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Republican who advocated dynamic conservatism
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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Nationalist leader in Chinese
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John F. Kennedy
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Democrat who advocated new frontier
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Douglas MacArthur
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Commander of the UN military forces in Korea
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Ho Chi Minh
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Communist leader in Chinese
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Richard Nixon
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Conservative republican who attacked communism
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Harry Truman
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Democrat who advocated the fair deal
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Mao Zedong
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Communist leader in Chinese
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States Rights candidate for president in 1948?
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Strom Thurmond
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How the Korean War ended?
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The same way it started
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Free government of Europe development?
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NATO
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John Kennedy's Administration style resembled whose ?
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Richard Nixon
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Cold war was sparked by?
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Realization that USSR intended to spread its dominion throughout the world
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"Baby Boom"
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Massive rise in the U.S, after WWII
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Civil rights movement
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black attempts to secure protection of legal entitlements
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Cold War
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Postwar competition between U.S. & the Soviet Union aggression
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Containment
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Policy of resistance to continuing communist aggression
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Domino theory
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Belief that the fall of one nation in Asia to communism will lead to the fall of other nations their
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"Dynamic Conservation"
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Belief in helping business while promoting human well fair
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Ecumenical movement
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Religions attempts to bring nominal Christians
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Iron curtain
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Separation of Eastern Europe from the west
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Limited War
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Policy of a war objective short of total victory
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"Peaceful Coexistence"
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Goal of accommodation with communism
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Dixiecrats
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Nickname given to conservative Southern democrats who joined the states right party in 48
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Inchon
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Were general MacArthur launch a brilliant invasion of North Korea that saved South Korea
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Postwar was marked by?
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Increase in involvement in foreign affairs
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McCarthyism
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Describe accusations based on lies, distortion, & innuendo
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Bay of Pigs
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1961 operation against communist Cuba originally backed by the U.S. that resulted in disaster when aid was withdrawn the last minute
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Berlin wall
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East German began building in 1961 to prevent refuges escaping to the West
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National security in 1947 created the
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CIA, department of defense & the national security counsel
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Objective of Taft-Hartley act
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To weaken unions
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Event that caused blockade of west Berlin
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Allied attempts to unify West Germany
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"Frozen Chosin"
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Brave retreat by surrounded U.S. marines
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"Right-to-work" law?
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Ban of union shop
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3 Nations that were split into communist & free divisions
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Germany, Korea, & Vietnam
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U.S. Intervened against communist Korea by?
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Acting when Soviets were temporarily absent from the UN
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Cuba
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1st country in Western hemisphere to fall to communism
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"Year of Shocks"
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Communist takeover of main land China
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How civil rights movement diverged from the tradition definition of a civil right?
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Traditionally a civil right is a specific privilege or entitlement that is granted by law and the government is actively protecting from both government & individual encroachment
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Public school should not be segregated by race
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Conducted investigation of Alger Hiss
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Richard Nixon
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Why U.S. has proved to be
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the ability of any permanent member of the security to veto an action limits the ability of the UN to act, likewise the inability on a organization to force members to recognize its authority has hampered to preserve peace
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Eisenhower was responsible for what measures?
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department of health, education & well fair, interstate high way system national defense education act
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statistics dropped during postwar era?
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women at home
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consumer culture describes?
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post was society in America
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