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Truman's reform program that included expanding benefits to different groups of Americans, such as Social Security, higher minimum wage, national health insurance, and civil rights laws
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A World War II general, later elected president of the United States in 1952 after Truman and the Democrats were unpopular during this time.
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A law that gave returning war veterans college tuition and low-interest home loans.
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A time period between 1945 and 1960 where the American birth rate soared. This is because Americans could now afford to have families.
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In American society, people were encouraged to adopt a certain way of life and uniform national culture so as not to appear "un-American" and possibly be accused of being communist or anti-American
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Secret actions that were taken by the CIA within other countries. Used by Eisenhower to fight against communism in foreign developing countries.
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Took place during a time when support for the Vietnam War was low and the Great Society programs were struggling. Lyndon B. Johnson decided not to run for reelection. Richard Nixon won the election, representing the beginning of a return to more conservative politics
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In 1968, the VIetCong launched a massive coordinated attack on every city and American base in South Vietnam
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The Soviet Union show down an American spy plane. America was quick to deny claims that it was used for spying until the Soviet Union brought forth the pilot, confirming that it was spies. This increased tension and distrust again between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
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A non-violent protest in which people occupy a place to protest its conditions or practices
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President in the midst of the Civil Rights movement from 1961 till his assassination in 1963.
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Triggered by the Soviet Union launching the first satellite into space. The United States was inspired to improve their science and technology in missiles and space exploration
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17 April 1961, under the CIA, Cuban exiles launched an invasion on the south coast of Cuba to overthrow Castro and establish a USA-friendly non-communist government
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A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided democratic West and communist East Berlin
#walloffeastandwest |
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A group that promoted nontraditional living that included individual expression, social experimentation, flamboyant dress, drug use, and music
#goallout |
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A confrontation between the United States and communist Cuba. Cuba possessed missiles and nuclear weapons, and as they were 90 miles from the American coast, it was the closest to nuclear conflict during the Cold War
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Wrote The Feminine Mystique, challenging traditional female roles and promoting total equality
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A Supreme Court case that ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional
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Presided over many significant Supreme Court rulings in the 1950s and 1960s, during a time that ruled on civil rights, the right of due process, and the right of free expression.
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Blacks held a city-wide protest of bus segregation by walking and carpooling
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A Baptist minister who led the Montgomery Boycott. Later became a leader in the Civil Rights movement
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American having a lack of trust in the government during the Vietnam War
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Lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971
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Blacks and whites rode together on buses across the South in protest of segregated buses in the South
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A law that gave the federal government power to stop segregation in all public places and enforced the "equal protection" for all citizens under the 14th Amendment
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Wrote Silent Spring, a book that exposed the damaged caused by pesticides. This helped spark the environmentalist movement
#pesticidesruinspring |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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Gave the federal government power to protect black suffrage from discrimination
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A movement that promoted black nationalism and violence if necessary
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Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic agenda to expand federal power to create reforms in the United States. It expanded on ideals from the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the New Frontier
#makeamericagreat |
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Ended the quota limits that had discriminated against certain immigrants since the 1920s
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| Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) |
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A group that protested poverty, racism, and the Vietnam War
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Led nonviolent strikes and boycotts that led to increased collective bargaining rights for farm workers
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The idea that if one country fell to communism, many other countries would also fall
#oneafteranother |
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A proposed amendment that would establish legal equality for women
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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Congress gave Lyndon B. Johnson power to take all measures necessary to fight North Vietnam
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