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- Agriculture Adjustment Administration
- Gov pays farmers to NOT grow crops and raise certain livestock
- Henry Wallace
- Admin. began b/c of the Agriculture Adjustment Act |
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- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Gave paid jobs to young men (18-25) |
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- Committee for Industrial Organization
- Skilled and unskilled workers given jobs in particular industries
- John Lewis |
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- Securities and Exchange Commission
-regulate stock market and prevent fraud |
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- Social Secrurity Administration
- old age pensions
- unemployment insurance
- disability insurance |
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| - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
- between Russia and US
- limits nuclear weapons |
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- relaxations of tensions
- Nixon and Kissinger with Russia and China |
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- high level meeting
- US and Soviets |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| - President cant take all nessecary actions to repel an armed attack to prevent further aggressions |
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- Divided Vietnam along 17th parallel
-Ho Chi Ming and Vietminh took North
- Ngo Dinh Diem took South |
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| - guerrilla army of South Vietnam Communist |
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- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
- Gov insurance for bank deposits |
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- Lead by Adolf Hitler
- Party was there before Hitler joined
- Anti-Semetic
- nationalist and anticommunist
- Mein Kampf became the Nazi handbook |
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- German General
- AKA "Desert Fox" |
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| - US soliders were stuck in West Germany and Germany blockaded it, therefore in june 1948 planes were sent to give the troops supplies |
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| - Helped create the policy of containment |
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| - Africans and volunteer whites went to south to try and bring attention to the wrong of segregated busses |
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- nominated by Eisenhower to be Chief Justice of US
- Reappoinment
- way in which states draw up
political districts based on
populations |
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- won 1968 pres election
- southern strategy
- New Federalism
- more control to state gov
- revenue sharing
- Fed gov gives money to state govs |
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- more control to state gov
- dismantle fed gov programs |
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- arrested for now giving her seat to a white man
- sparked civil rights movement |
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| - showed the American people that people in out government lied about their beliefs on the war and how the government had not been honest with the people. |
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- If vietnam falls to communism the rest of southeast asia will as well
- Eisenhower |
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- Provided assistance to disadvantaged Americans
- Medicare and Medicade |
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- reestablish some limits on executive power
- pres has to inform congress if any troops were to go abroad and they had to be back in 90 days |
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| - property taken away if mortgage is not paid |
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- first women to cabinet post
- secretary of labor |
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- party run by Mussolini
- nation more important than indvidual |
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| - Date of invasion or normandy |
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| guerilla fighters attacked American airbases in south Vietnam during TET the new year |
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| break in at DNC headquarters organized by Liddy |
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| Gov. of Louisiana; US Senate; He promoted massive redistribution of wealth. |
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| AAA founder, Progressive Party candidate |
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| allowed the US to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital” to the defense of the US. (sent weapons to Britain if british government promised to repay) |
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| replaced Neville Chamberlein; British Leader; met on Atlantic Charter. |
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| followed containment, massive retaliation. |
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| leader of peoples republic of China |
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| author of Point Four program, fired MacArthur, involved in Korean War, and Justified the atomic bomb. |
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| health insurance for senior citizens |
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| give European nations American aid to rebuild their economies |
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| Topeka, Kansas, separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. Education is a right, and schools must be desegregated. |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| authorized the US attorney to send federal examiners to register qualified voters bypassing local officials who refused to register Africans |
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| Daniel Ellsberg leaked these documents revealing the true feelings of the government on the Vietnam war. |
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