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| helped to standardize middle class culture, change values and strengthen ethnic traditions | mass media
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| first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic | Charles Lindbergh
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| encouraged by easy credit plans, advertising, merchandising and installment buying | consumerism
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| new music style that influenced classical musicians, one of the most influential contributions by African American artists in the 1920's | Jazz
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| women of the 1920s who cut her hair, wore short dresses, drove and participated in sports | Flapper
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| caused bootlegging boom and deaths from alcohol related causes declined | Prohibition
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| was the fastest growing industry in the 1920s | Automobile industry
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| designing products to go out of style | Planned obsolescence
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| the fight to ban alcohol | Prohibition
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| teacher who’s trial exposed the division between religious and scientific values in American society during the 1920s | John Scopes
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| farmers from Oklahoma v | Okies
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| books to help people forget problems of the depression (like westerns or Orphan Annie) | Escapist novels
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| Roosevelt’s plan to turn around the Depression | New Deal
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| intended to stop bank withdrawals | Bank Holiday
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| said the New Deal was too costly, gave the gov. too much power and said the New Deal did not go far enough | Critics of New Deal
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| helped preserve cultural heritages | Native Americans and New Deal
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| FDR’s radiobroadcasts | Fireside Chats
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| Eleanor Roosevelt pulled her membership from the DAR after she was not allowed to sing at constitution hall | Marion Anderson
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| Hoover’s did little to end the problems caused by this | Depression
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| large-scale stock selling caused the market to crash on this day | Black Tuesday
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| caused by debt, global economic problems, and overuse of credit,mortgages | Great Depression
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| group of WWI vets that tried unsuccessfully to pass the Veterans Bonus Bill | Bonus Army
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| provided electricity, flood control and recreational facilities for the Tennessee River valley | TVA
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| extended power lines to isolated areas | REA
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| gave older Americans benefits so they could retire | Social Security Act
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| crucial to 1936 election of FDR | African American
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| gave jobs to young men, helped create parks, planted trees | CCC
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| many Americans wanted to make money from rising stock prices so invested in the | Stock Market
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| many lost their land during the depression due to lack of money to pay their | farmers
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| his belief in rugged individualism caused him to oppose direct federal relief | Herbert Hoover
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| Tenant farmer left land and headed west because of this | Dust Bowl
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| Roosevelt’s plan to add new justices over the age of 70. | Court packing
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| helped in many ways to ease the depression, saw the creation of shantytowns during the depression | urban communities
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| leader of the US during WWII | Franklin Roosevelt
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| Mexican Americans were victims of violence during these | Zoot Suits riots
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| systematic slaughter of European Jews by Germany | Holocaust
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| Dec. 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor
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| forced movement of US troops to prison camps in the Philippines | Bataan Death March
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| invasion of Australia was halted by this | Battle of the Coral Sea
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| after invasion of this island the US knew it could attack mainland Italy | Sicily
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| after the atomic bombs were dropped on these two cities WWII ended | Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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| One of several military organizations that accepted women volunteers for military duty during WWII. | WASP'S
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| 1942 invasion of North Africa resulted in allied control of this area | Mediterranean
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| Giving into demands in an effort to avoid larger conflicts | Appeasement
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| policy of withdrawing from world affairs | Isolationism
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| marked allied invasion of France | D-Day
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| imprisonment of Japanese Americans | Internment
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| years US was involved in WWII | 1941-1945
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| leader of all Allied troops in Europe | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| another name for Germany’s quick attacks on Poland and France “lighting war” | Blitzkrieg
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| Japan violated all international agreements and invaded what area? | Manchuria
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| the most important consequence of WWII was the emergence of the US and USSR | Superpowers
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| systematic slaughter of European Jews | Holocaust
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| commander of US forces in the Pacific | Douglas MacArthur
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| strategy of attacking certain positions and bypassing others | Island Hopping
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| Selective training and service act, selling war bonds, hiring women were all part of | mobilization
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| codename of the atomic bomb project | Manhattan Project
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| required members of the US communist party to register with the Government | Internal Security Act
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| head of US forces that helped administer Japan after the war | Douglas MacArthur
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| under this veterans were given federal aid to buy homes, attend college and start businesses | GI Bill
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| provided Europe with financial aid to combat communism | Marshall Plan
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| began when North Korea invaded South Korea | Korean War
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| political party that split in 1948 over civil rights issues | Democratic Party
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| president who ended racial discrimination in the military | Truman
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| divided into four occupation zones, Berlin was jointly controlled, the Nazi party should be crushed here | Germany
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| countries under Soviet control | Satellite Nations
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| required member so the US communist party to register with the government | Internal Security Act
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| dividing line between North and South Korea | 38th parallel
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| placed atomic energy under civilian control | Atomic Energy Act
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| policy of restricting the spread of communism | Containment
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| was divided after WWII because the Soviet Union and the US occupied the nations | North and South Korea
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| shows on this new medium of the 50’s often reinforced racial and ethnic stereotypes | television
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| showed that some southern whites were unwilling to accept Brown vs. Board | Little Rock Arkansas
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| gave teenagers of the 50’s an outlet for rebellion | Rock n Roll
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| established the segregation was illegal | Brown vs. Board
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| senator who tried to find communists in the US | Joseph McCarthy
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| started the civil rights movement by not giving up her seat on a bus | Rosa Parks
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| blockade of the Berlin was ended by the | Berlin Airlift
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| in response to NATO the soviets formed their own military alliance known as the | Warsaw Pact
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| increase in the number of births in the US | baby boom
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| the search for these created a climate of fear and suspicion | Communism
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| brought in the National Guard to keep schools segregated | Governor Faubus
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| agency developed as a direct result of Sputnik | NASA
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| after WWII people were moving where? | suburbs
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| arms-reduction talks were halted when this plane crashed | U-2 incident
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| Location of failed invasion by anti-Castro Cuban refugees. | Bay of Pigs
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| referred to the influence of English bands such as the Beatles. | British invasion
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| urged black to use “any means necessary” to fight for freedom | Malcolm X
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| led to a generation gap, experimentation with drugs | Counterculture
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| Supreme Court case that made police officers read everyone their rights | Miranda vs. Arizona
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| Marked the high point of the counterculture movement | Woodstock
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| program that sent volunteers to work for two years in developing countries | Peace Corps
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| Established that women and men holding the some job must receive the same pay | Equal Pay Act
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| Tactic used by early civil rights activists to fight for equal rights | Nonviolent resistance
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| resulted in the “hot line” removal of missile bases in Cuba and the limited nuclear test ban treaty | Cuban missile crisis
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| requires protesters to never resort to violence | nonviolent resistance
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| reflected the social changes of the time | Music of 1960’s
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| the most recognizable symbol of the cold war? | Berlin Wall
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| first president of South Vietnam | Ngo Dinh Diem
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| The process of relocating the inhabitants of and destroying South Vietnamese villages was called | Pacification
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| transportation and communications system used to move weapons and supplies from North Vietnam to South Vietnam, passed through Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos | Ho Chi Minh Trail
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| were conducted by US forces to flush Vietcong from hiding places | Search and destroy
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| if one country became communist all the rest would | Domino Theory
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| lowered voting age from 21 to 18 | 26th Amendment
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| believe all war is wrong, Vietnam was not important to the US, US involvement in Vietnam was against the wishes of most Vietnamese | Doves
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| site of one of the worst cases of US killing civilians during Vietnam | Mai Lai
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| as designed to limit the power of the President | War powers Act
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| this was supposed to result in gradual withdrawal of US troops, peace with honor, stable South Vietnam | Vietnamization
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| two years after US military forces left Vietnam | Saigon fell
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