1950s/1960s
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| show | one of the southern delegates who, to protest president Truman's civil rights policy, walked out of the 1948 democratic national convention and formed the state's rights democratic party.
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| show | President Harry S. Truman's economic program- an extension of franklin roosevelt's new deal-which included measures to increase the minimum wage, to extend social coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families.
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| show | the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the us and the soviet union after world war II.
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| McCarthyism | show 🗑
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| show | a residential town or community near a city.
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| baby boom | show 🗑
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| brown v. topeka board of education | show 🗑
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| Blacklist | show 🗑
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| show | a us commitment to defend the middle east against attack by any communist country, announced by president dwight d. eisenhower in 1957.
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| show | the designing of products to wear out or to become outdated quickly, so that people will feel a need to replace their possessions frequently.
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| show | a preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods.
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| show | the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence-especially the efforts of the us to block the spread of soviet influence during the late 1940's and early 1950's.
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| brinkmanship | show 🗑
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| sputnik | show 🗑
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| warsaw pact | show 🗑
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| united nations | show 🗑
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| show | a social and artificial movement of the 1950's, stressing unrestrained literary self-expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture.
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| show | a phrase used by winston churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated communist countries in the soviet bloc of eastern europe from countries in western europe.
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| U-2 incident | show 🗑
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| show | a name given to the servicemen's readjustment act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for WWII veterans
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| New Frontier | show 🗑
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| peace corps | show 🗑
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| the warren commission | show 🗑
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| the great society | show 🗑
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| medicare | show 🗑
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| medicaid | show 🗑
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| Berlin wall | show 🗑
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| show | a form of demonstration used by african americans to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sat down in a segregated buisness and refused to leave until they were served.
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| civil rights act 1964 | show 🗑
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| show | a law that made it easier for blacks to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level.
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| show | a law that banned discrimination in housing.
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| black power | show 🗑
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| show | a militant african american political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and bobby seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto.
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| show | one of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the south in the early 1960's to challenge segregation.
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| feminism | show 🗑
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| National Organization of Women (NOW) | show 🗑
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| woodstock | show 🗑
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| counterculture | show 🗑
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| show | the supreme court during the period when earl warren was chief justice, noted for its activism in the areas of civil rights and free speech.
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| show | a 1964 project to register african american voters in mississippi.
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| show | an organization that formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.
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| show | an organization formed in 1957 by dr. martin luther king jr and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means.
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| show | 10 unfriendly witnesses from the hollywood film industry decided not to answer questions because they believed their hearings were unconstitutional and were sent to prison.
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| show | a u-2 pilot captured by the soviet union after his plane was shot down. spent 18 months in prison
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| C.I.A | show 🗑
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| show | the quote from the plaque on Truman's white house desk. it represented his decisiveness and willingness to accept responsibility for his decisions.
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| show | a speak by richard nixon denying any wrongdoing but admitted to accepting a cocker spaniel for his girls named checkers.
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| show | a soviet who became the first human in space. a cosmonaut (soviet astronaut)
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| show | american astronaut on Freedom 7 who became the first american to travle into space.
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| show | a book by Michael Harrington, brought awareness to the problem of poverty in america.
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| silent spring | show 🗑
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| show | a book written by ralph nader that sharply criticized the us automobiles. led to congress establishing safety standards for cars, tires, and seatbelts.
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| show | the court ruled that evidence seized illegally could not be used in state courts. this is called the Exclusionary rule.
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| show | the justices ruled that an accused person has a right to have a lawyer present during police questioning.
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| show | the justices required criminal courts to provide free legal counsel to those who could not afford it.
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| Miranda v. arizona | show 🗑
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| show | air force veteran who won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white university of mississippi.
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| show | refused to let james meredith register as a student at the university of mississippi.
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| show | George Wallace responding to court order to desegregate the university of Alabama.
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| "this is the most segregated city in america!" | show 🗑
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| show | police commisioner whos men arrested 959 african american children marching in Birmingham on may 2 using fire hoses, attack dogs, and other tactics.
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| show | NAACP field secretary and wwII veteran murdered by a sniper shortly after midnight before kennedy's speech in mississippi.
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| cesar chavez | show 🗑
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| united farm workers organizing committee | show 🗑
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| show | native american rights organization. native americans were dissatisfied with the slow pace reform. largely a self-defense group against police brutality and protecting rights of native americans in northern and western states.
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| "tune in, turn on, drop out" | show 🗑
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| show | in san francisco known as the hippie capital.
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| show | John F. Kennedy (dem) and Richard M. Nixon (rep)
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| how old was kennedy? | show 🗑
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| kennedy's religion? | show 🗑
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| show | first televised debate between presidential candidates
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| quote from kennedy's inauguration speech? | show 🗑
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| show | Camelot years
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| purpose of the bay of pigs invasion? | show 🗑
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| show | soviet union
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| show | Nikita Khrushchev
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| what was the us prepared to do to prevent more missilse from reaching cuba? | show 🗑
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| show | november 22, 1963
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| show | dallas, texas
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| charged with kennedys death | show 🗑
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| show | jack ruby
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| president after kennedy was assassinated | show 🗑
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| why was the berlin wall built between east and west berlin? | show 🗑
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