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| a state of separation between persons or groups |
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| Sudetenland is the German name used in English in the first half of the 20th century for the western regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans. |
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| 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945) |
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| The attack on Pearl Harbor was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. |
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| the military, in support services, in factories back home, in concentration camps, and keeping the home fires burning. |
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| elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972) |
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| a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952); named after George Marshall |
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| The G.I. Bill was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation. |
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| German Nazi dictator during World War II |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization: an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security |
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| The Warsaw Treaty is the informal name for the mutual defense Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance commonly known as the Warsaw Pact subscribed by eight communist states in Eastern Europe, which was established at the USSR’s initiative and realized on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw, Poland. |
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| the act of containing; keeping something from spreading. |
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| United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961) |
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| a period of general fear of communists |
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| United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957) |
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| unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists) |
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| John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. |
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| Sputnik 1 was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students and denying black children equal educational opportunities unconstitutional. |
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| Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. |
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| militant civil rights leader (1925-1965) |
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| United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968) |
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| Huey Percy Newton was co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, an African-American organization established to promote Black Power, civil rights and self-defense. |
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| Movement that developed in the mid-1960s calling for renewed pride in, and new emphasis on, racial pride in African-American heritage. |
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| The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)was a black nationalist organization founded in 1964 by Malcolm X. Modeled on the Organization of African Unity, the purpose of the OAAU was to fight for the human rights of African Americans and promote cooperation among Africans and Afro-Americans in the Americas. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. |
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| The Black Panther Party was an African-American revolutionary left-wing organization working for the self-defense for black people. |
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| 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973) |
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| Suburbanization is a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities. It is one of the many causes of the increase in urban sprawl. |
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| Construction of inter-state highway system |
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| The Interstate Highway System is a network of limited-access highways (also called freeways or expressways) in the United States. |
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| A leading figure in the "Second Wave" of the U.S. Women's Movement. |
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| The National Organization for Women is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. |
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| United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964) |
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| Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin in September 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement. |
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| Counterculture of the '60s |
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| refers to a cultural movement[1] that mainly developed in the United States and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1956 and 1974. |
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| Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
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| The Tonkin Gulf Resolution gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. |
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| The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. |
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| a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
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| vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994) |
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| 40th President of the United States (1911-2004) |
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| an economic system based on private ownership of capital |
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