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The year that Reconstruction ended
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1877
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The year the USS Maine sank in Havana harbor The
year the Spanish-American War began Also
considered to be the year that America became
imperialist
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1898
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WWI
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1914 1918 The US entered the war in 1917
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The year that the stock market crashed (referred
to as Black Tuesday) Considered the beginning
of the Great Depression
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1929
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The launching of the worlds first satellite,
Sputnik, by the USSR and the start of the Space
Race
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1957
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This amendment established the income tax
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16th
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This amendment gave women the right to vote
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19th
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This lowered the voting age to 18 years old
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26th
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This amendment gave us the direct election of
senators by the people
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17th
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This amendment prohibited the poll tax for
national elections
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24th
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Immigration during the latter 1800s was mainly
from these two world regions
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Southern Europe and Russia (Jews)
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The Dawes Act of 1887 had this impact on
Native-Americans
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The Dawes Act was intended to make Indians into
farmers but instead helped destroy Indian culture
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His theories on the relationship between sea
power and world commerce influenced foreign
policy development
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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During the latter 1800s, industrialists who
gained great wealth through corruption and unfair
business practices
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Robber Barons
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A political movement of the late 1800s
representing mainly farmers and which favored
free coinage of silver and government control of
railroads and industry
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Populism
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The fear of communism in the 1950s was inflamed
even more due to his senate investigations of
communist influence in government and
entertainment
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Senator Joe McCarthy (McCarthyism)
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The Cold War became hot when this war broke out
in 1950 The war ended in 1953 with a cease-fire
that is still in effect
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Korean War
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When the French were defeated in 1954, the US
continued the fight against the expansion of
communism here in a war that lasted well over a
decade
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Vietnam
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He not only authorized the use of atomic bombs
against Japan, he also established the doctrine
of containment against communism
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President Harry Truman
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This 1964 law allowed President Johnson to vastly
increase troop strength in Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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WWII for the United States began for this reason
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941
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The US was able to supply Great Britain and,
later, Russia, with war materiel due to this 1941
law passed by Congress
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Lend-Lease Act
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The strategy used by the US against the Japanese
in the Pacific
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Island-Hopping
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This battle is considered the turning point for
the US and its Allies in Europe
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D-Day The invasion of Normandy, France June 6,
1944
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The Daily Double
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The victory attained by the US here is considered
the turning point in the war in the Pacific
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Battle of Midway
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Eras
Court Cases
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WWI
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This era directly followed the Civil War
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Reconstruction
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This era was one of heightened tensions between
the US and the communist states of the USSR and
China
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The Cold War
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This era saw the reform of government, business,
labor, and American society
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The Progressive Era
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This era was one of industrialization and
prosperity but also one of greed, excess, and
exploitation
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The Gilded Age
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This era was marked by widespread unemployment,
commercial failure, and the Dust Bowl
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The Great Depression 1930s
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This case established the separate but equal
standard that allowed segregation
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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This Supreme Court case struck down a Wisconsin
law requiring Amish children to attend school
beyond 8th grade
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Wisconsin v. Yoder
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This case required the state of Texas to come up
with a new system of school financing to increase
funding for poorer school districts
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Edgewood ISD v. Kirby
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In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that manual
recounts of presidential ballots in the 2000
election could not proceed because inconsistent
standards in different counties violated the
equal protection clause
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Bush v. Gore
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This 1877 case upheld the right of a state to
regulate businesses that affect the public
interest within a state
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Munn v. Illinois
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This act passed in 1973 requires the President to
inform Congress within two days of any use of US
troops in a foreign country and to withdraw those
troops within 60 days if Congress does not approve
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War Powers Act
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A break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters
here by operatives working for the Nixon
administration resulted in a scandal and the
eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon
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Watergate
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The principle of government where power is shared
within a union between a national and state
governments
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Federalism
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A concept whereby one nation exercises political
and/or economic control over a weaker or smaller
nation
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Imperialism
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The Democratic political machine that controlled
New York City during the Gilded Age. Its most
infamous political boss was Boss Tweed
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Tammany Hall
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This treaty ended WWI
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Treaty of Versailles
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One of the reasons for the US entering WWI was
Germanys use of this
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
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President Wilson wanted to negotiate the end of
WWI based on his peace plan known as this
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The Fourteen Points
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Besides unrestricted submarine warfare, these
were two other reasons the US entered the war
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Monetary and materiel support for the
Allies Zimmerman Telegram
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He was commander of the American Expeditionary
Force (AEF) in France during WWI
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General Pershing
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He changed America forever by mass producing and
mass marketing the automobile
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Henry Ford
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He commanded all Allied forces in Europe during
WWII and later served as president from 1952 -
1960
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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He believed that black intellectual elites should
lead the push for civil rights. He also helped
found the NAACP (National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People)
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W. E. B. DuBois
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A leader of unionization and labor unions, he was
jailed several times. He was also the Socialist
candidate for President in several elections
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Eugene V. Debs
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Amassing great wealth as owner of US Steel, he
later used his wealth building libraries and
aiding other cultural endeavors
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Andrew Carnegie
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Court Cases
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He was an African-American Methodist preacher and
a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who
advocated the use of passive resistance
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Martin Luther King, JR
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These mostly Southern laws or statutes enforced
segregation and restricted the rights of blacks
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Jim Crow Laws
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An African-American leader and educator, he
believed blacks should gain an education and
raise themselves up rather than fight for civil
rights
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Booker T. Washington
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This landmark law made it illegal to discriminate
based on race, sex, and religion and gave the
government powers to enforce all civil rights
laws including desegregation
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
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This 1954 Supreme Court case outlawed segregation
in public schools
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Brown v. Board of Education
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In 1944, Korematsu v. The United States upheld
this
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The constitutionality of detaining
Japanese-Americans in camps during WWII
Authorized by Executive Order 9066
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In 1947, Mendez v. Westminster was the first
Supreme Court case to successfully challenge this
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Segregation of children by race/ethnicity
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The 1948 Supreme Court case, Delgado v. Bastrop
ISD decided this
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Segregation of Mexican-American children was
illegal in Texas
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In 1950, the Supreme Court ruled in this case
that UT law schools separate facility for blacks
failed to qualify as separate but equal and
Herman Sweatt won the right to attend UT Law
school
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Sweatt v. Painter
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When you are arrested and the police advise you
of your rights they are complying with a Supreme
Court decision in this case
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Miranda v. Arizona Factoid After winning his
case, Miranda was later stabbed in a bar parking
lot. Ironically, as he lay bleeding to death, his
assailant was handcuffed and read his Miranda
Rights
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The right to free speech, press, assembly,
petition, and religion
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1st Amendment
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The right to bear arms
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2nd Amendment
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You cannot be required to testify against
yourself and you cannot be tried twice for the
same crime (double jeopardy)
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5th Amendment
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This banned the transportation, sale, and
consumption of alcohol
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18th Amendment
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The 21st Amendment did this
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Repealed the 18th Amendment
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This pseudo-scientific belief argued that the
human race could be improved through breeding and
was used as an excuse for marriage restrictions,
segregation laws, and a push to lower immigration
quotas from inferior countries Pseudo means
false
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Eugenics
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This policy argues that government should
interfere as little as possible in business
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Laissez-Faire
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This social reform movement based on religious
principles was dedicated to the betterment of
industrial society through the application of
charity and justice Groups included the YMCA and
the Salvation Army
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Social-Gospel Movement
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The theory that if one country fell to Communism
then others nearby would fall as well was used to
help justify American involvement in Vietnam
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The Domino Theory
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They were the dictators of Nazi Germany, Fascist
Italy, and Communist Russia during WWII
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Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin
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He wrote Grapes of Wrath which told the story of
a family migrating from the Depression-era Dust
Bowl
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John Steinbeck
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She was the first African-American woman to be
elected to the US Congress and the first woman to
run for president
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Shirley Chisholm
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One of the leading lawyers of his day, he
represented the defense in the Scopes Monkey
Trial
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Clarence Darrow
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She was a leader in the American Womens Suffrage
Movement
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Susan B. Anthony
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He made history when he flew solo non-stop from
St. Louis to Paris, France in 1927 in his plane,
The Spirit of St. Louis
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Charles Lindbergh
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Acronyms
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization Originally
formed as an alliance to protect Western Europe
from the Soviet Union
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NAFTA
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North American Free Trade Agreement A free trade
agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico
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NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA
was formed in response to the USSRs launching
if the Sputnik satellite
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GATT
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT was
an international agreement on trade signed in
1947. In 1995, it was replaced by the World Trade
Organization (WTO)
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HUAC
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House Un-American Activities Committee This
committee held hearings on communist influences
in America beginning in 1938 and into the 1970s.
Some government employees were accused as
communist spies and many accused Hollywood
writers, actors, and producers were blacklisted
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This American flying unit supported the
Nationalist Chinese Army during WWII
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The Flying Tigers
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This group was the first African-American
fighter squadron Called the Red-Tails, they
earned a reputation as skilled pilots
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The Tuskegee Airmen
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Wind Talkers
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Navajo Indians used as code talkers for the US
Army US radio operations in the Pacific during
WWII could not be broken as the enemy could not
understand the Navajo language
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When the Philippines were invaded and taken by
the Japanese, US and Filipino soldiers who had
surrendered were forced to endure this brutal
march to prison camps
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The Bataan Death March
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Much of the cost of WWII for America was financed
by selling these to the American public
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War Bonds
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He was president when the Great Depression first
struck in 1929
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Herbert Hoover
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This was Franklin Roosevelts plan to end the
Depression
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The New Deal
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Roosevelt calmed the American public through
these radio talks
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Fireside Chats
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This was established to guarantee the publics
bank accounts in case of bank failure
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC
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Created by FDR to allow the old to live in
dignity, this Second New Deal program consumes a
great deal of todays government budget
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Social Security
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He formed the Rough Riders to fight in the
Spanish-American War He became President upon the
assassination of President McKinley He created
many national parks He pushed through the Pure
Food and Drug Act
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President Theodore Roosevelt
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He became president upon the death of FDR He
authorized the use of atomic bombs on Japan He
desegregated the United States Army He announced
a doctrine to contain communism wherever it may
try to expand
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President Harry S. Truman
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He ended the Vietnam War through his policy of
negotiation and Vietnamization He visited
Communist China and began a new relationship
between it and the US He was the only president
to resign
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President Richard M. Nixon
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He tried to end poverty in America through his
Great Society program He greatly increased the
numbers of US soldiers fighting in Vietnam He
helped push through the Civil Rights Act 1964
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President Lyndon Johnson
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He was youngest president to be elected He was
the first Catholic president He got the Soviet
Union to remove its nuclear missiles from Cuba
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis He was
assassinated in 1963
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President John F. Kennedy
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He was the segregationist, democratic governor of
Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement He
literally barred the door against blacks
attempting to seek admission to the University of
Alabama When he ran for president during the 1972
election an assassination attempt left him
paralyzed
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George Wallace
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Journalists who exposed corruption, abuse, and
other social problems
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Muckrakers
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A type of journalism that is biased, and often
based on false information and sensationalism for
the sake of attracting readers
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Yellow Journalism
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A preference for native-born citizens accompanied
by hostility towards immigrants during the 1800s
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Nativism
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Written by Upton Sinclair, this book exposed the
horrible sanitary conditions and procedures in
the meat-packing industry
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The Jungle