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| term to specify the children born to Japenese people in the US that volunteered to fight in the war against Japan. |
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South Vietnam
we supported
Vietnam War- 1959-1975 |
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book published in 1963
brought to attention the lack of fulfillment in womens' lives.
Ignited contemporary womens' movement in 1963. |
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1970s
Watergate Office Complex in D.C. was wobber
Led to resignation of Richard Nixon |
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a set of domestic programs proposed by LBJ- 1963-1969
elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
New spending programs that address education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation. |
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| Military Industrial Complex |
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policy relationships between government, armed forces, and industrial support. They obtain the commericial sector in political approval for research.
Made popular by Dwight Eisenhower in his Farewell Speech. |
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a concrete barrier built by Soviet controlled Germany.
1945-1990
Prevented people in Eastern Berlin from going West.
Prevented Aid, which required Air Lifts. |
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America dropped Atomic Bomb in 1945
Symbolic end of war/1st time A-Bomb used |
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a political and social protest campaign started in 1955.
Opposed the cities racial segregation on it's public transit.
Resulted in a financial deficit for Montgomery public transit system. |
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Provided oil to US
Hostage Crisis- we were friends with dictator ruler, until a revolt took him out of office.
Oil Crisis |
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William Levitt
a planned community
sybolized the conformity of the 1950s |
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short supply of energy resources devastated the economy.
Caused by Iran Revolution in the 1970s |
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battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1945.
a climatic battle for the hill
First Indochina war between French Unions and Viet Minh. |
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1964
3 Viet Minh torpedos took down 3 US ships and led to open involvment in the Vietnam War. |
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| part of non-violent strategy and mass protests that eventually led to passage of the civil rights act of 1964, which ended legally-santioned racial segregation |
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| 1968 Democratic Nation Convention |
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assembled after LBJ announce he would notserve a second term.
Chicago- police moved rioters towards the convention.
Protestors were upset over assanination of MLK and Robert F. Kennedy |
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National Security council report of 1968.
58 pg. report issued in 1950.
Shaped U.S. foreign policy in Cold War for 20 years. |
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Country that came under the powere of Spain during Columbus, then began to colonize froming independence.
U.S. provided political support to conservative led leaders |
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1965- large scale riot that lasted 6 days in Watts, which is near L.A.
Reaction to long record of police brutality and other racial injustices |
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the politically motivated practice of making accusations of communist activity, without evidence.
Senator Joesph McCarthy.
late 1940s and 1950s. |
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| Middle East Peace Process |
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The Iraeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Since the 1970s there has been a parallel effort made to find terms upon which peace can be agreed by both Palestine and Israel. |
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3 days of "peace and music" in 1969.
Symbolized the drugs, sex, and rock and roll counter culture of the 1960s. |
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| an unsucessful attempt by a CIA trained force of Cuban exiles to invade souther Cuba with support from the US armed forces to over throw Fidel Castro in 1961. |
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a bill that provided college or vocational education for returning WWII veterans, as well as 1 year of unemployment compensation.
1944 |
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| Truman addressed Congress in 1945 with a 21 point program of domestic legislation. |
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| Brown vs. The Board of Education |
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| a land mark decision in 1954 that declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for blacks and whites equal educational oppurtunities was unconstitutional. |
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confrontation between US and Soviets in Cuba in 1962.
Blockade was not challanged by Soviets. |
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1972
equal oppurtunity in Education Act- no person in the US shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participating in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to descrimination under any education programs or activity recieving Federal financial assistance. |
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a civil war between North and South Korea that started in 1950.
Dealt with containment and was a proxy war. |
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