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11th Grade
06/19/2008

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Great Society
Definition
President Johnson's Program to inprove U.S society
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Red Scare
Definition
Period of anticommunist hysteria after World War 1
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Richard Nixon
Definition
Ran against and lost to JFK in 1960.  Became president in 1968.  Was the first president to resign from office.
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Demobilization
Definition
Transition from wartime to peacetime production and employment levels.
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Muckrakers
Definition
Investigative journalists who wrote about corrupyion in business and politics hoping to bring about reform.
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Prohibition
Definition
Ban on alcohol
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Hollywood Ten
Definition
Group of film directors and writters who went to jail rather then answer questions from the Un-American Activities Committee.
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Flappers
Definition
Young women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior.
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Henry Ford
Definition
Developed the Model T
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Definition
Took office after JFK was killed
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BLack Thursday
Definition
The day investors caused a panic on Wall Street by selling all their stocks
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Great Depression
Definition
Serious global economic decline
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Bay of Pigs invasion
Definition
Anti-Castro Cuban refugees tried to invade Cube, Cuban forces pinned down all the rebels
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United Nations
Definition
International organization created to solve problems between nations
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Definition
Leader of the civil rights movement
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Vietcong
Definition
National Liberation Front
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Levittowns
Definition
Small devlopments that expanded onto small cities
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Hoovervilles
Definition
Small towns set up by people who had lost their homes in the great depression
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Genocide
Definition
Annihilation of an entire people
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Malcolm X
Definition
Leading minister for the nation of Islam
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Margin buying
Definition
buying stocks with borrowed money
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Definition
Shot and killed president John F. Kennedy
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Rosa Parks
Definition
Arrested for violating segragation laws
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Bank Holiday
Definition
New Deal Proclamation that temporarily closed every U.S bank to stop massive withdrawals
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Liberty Bonds
Definition
A special type of war bond that was sold to support the allied cause in World War 1
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Jackie Robinson
Definition
First African-American major league Baseball player
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Social Security Acy
Definition
Law that provides retirement pensions, unemployment insurance, and payments to people with disabilities and widows and children of male workers who have died
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Holocaust
Definition
Nazi Germany's slaughter of European Jews
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Tennessee Valley Autoority
Definition
New Deal program established in 1933 to build dams and power stations to provide hydroelectric power and flood control to the Tennessee River Valley
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Bonus Army
Definition
Group of WW 1 veterans who marched on Washington, DC. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their pension bonuses
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Hiroshima
Definition
City in Japan that the 1st Atomic Bomb was dropped on.
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Al Capone
Definition
A Gangster in the 20s and 30s Who let a crime syndicate dedicated to the smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activites during the prohibition era.
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Adolph Hitler
Definition
Dictator of Nazi Germany
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Vladimir Lenin
Definition
Leader of the Bolsheviks
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Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd
Definition
Last German Emperor
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Vietnamization
Definition
Policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turing over all the fighting in the Vietnam war to the South Vietnamese army.
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Doves
Definition
Americans who opposed the Vietnam war
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Domino Theory
Definition
Cold war belief that if one nation in southeast Asia fell to communism, the rest of southeast Asia would also fall.
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
Led the vietnamese fight for independence
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
WW2 battle in which the Allies defeated the final German offensive
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Douglas MacArthur
Definition
Led over 30,000 U.S and 110,000 Filipino troops to defend the Philippines
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Marshall Plan
Definition
U.S program of giving money to European countries to help rebuld their economies after WW2
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Baby Boom
Definition
Soaring birthrate in the U.S follwing WW2
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Dixiecrats
Definition
Formed by Southern Democrats who were dissatisfied with president Truman's support for civil rights issues
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John F. Kennedy
Definition
Became president in 1960, was assinated in 1963
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Rachel Carson
Definition
Contributed to the environment movement in the 1960s
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Fidel Castro
Definition
Became dictator of Cuba in 1959
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Freedom Riders
Definition
A group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
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Manhattan Project
Definition
Secret U.S project that begun in 1942 to develop an atomic bomb
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Joseph McCarthy
Definition
Senator from Wisconsin that fuled the suspicions of communist sympathizers ans spys in America
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