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| Describe America's "neutral" policy at the begining of WWII. | show 🗑
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| show | The attack on Pearl Harbor.
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| show | He used terror and purges.
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| show | To cripple the US fleet to continue conquering Asia for raw materials in hope the US would not recover in time.
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| show | Took over businesses and combined small family farms into large collectives.
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| show | Germany and USSR
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| show | Germany and Britain
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| show | Britain's Prime Minister
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| The Battle of Britain: What type of battle was it? | show 🗑
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| The Battle of Britain: What was the outcome? | show 🗑
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| show | Germany
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| Did Japan ally himself with the Axis Powers or the Allies? | show 🗑
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| show | Germany and Italy
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| How did the Axis Powers get its name? | show 🗑
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| After Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia and made a pact with Stalin, which country did he invade next? | show 🗑
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| show | Domestic Affairs
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| What was the purpose of Chamberlin's appeasement policy? | show 🗑
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| Which historical event contributed to the rise of facism in both Italy and Germany, as well as the rise of totalitarianism? | show 🗑
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| show | "living space", Germany's goal with getting more territory.
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| What happened at the city of Dunkirk? | show 🗑
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| show | Extreme form of facism used by Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany.
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| show | "lightning war", used by Hitler in Poland.
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| What were the Neutrality Acts? | show 🗑
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| show | This group of isolationists wanted the US to stop sending aid to Britain.
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| show | When the Japanese Army decided to take their own action and seize all of Manchuria.
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| show | The guns only faced one direction and it only protected one border. German forces were able to get around the line and it became useless.
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| show | Passed the Nuremberg Laws.
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| show | To kill all the Jews.
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| show | Organized the killing of a group of people (to eliminate all of Europe's Jews).
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| show | Holocaust
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| What jubs did women hold for the first time during WWII? | show 🗑
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| How did the US government meet the demand for war materials? | show 🗑
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| show | They faced descrimination in employment, housing, and education.
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| How were Afr/Am soldiers treated during WWII as soldiers in the military? | show 🗑
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| Who were the "code talkers" and what did they do? | show 🗑
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| Why did the Americans not spend much of the money they earned in wartime jobs? | show 🗑
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| show | Using nonviolent techniques to end racism
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| What happened to Japanese-Americans during WWII and why? | show 🗑
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| What was FDR and Churchill's main strategy at the beginning of WWII? | show 🗑
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| Which battle in Eastern Europe was the turning point for Germany when they suffered defeat? | show 🗑
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| In what part of the world were the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal? | show 🗑
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| What happened to Germany at the end of WWII? | show 🗑
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| show | The United Nations
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| What was General MacArthur forced to do when the Japanese advanced against his troops? | show 🗑
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| What battle ended the Japanese offensive in 1942? | show 🗑
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| show | The landing of Allied forces on the Normandy coast of France
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| Explain the significance of VE Day. | show 🗑
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| show | The secret U.S. project to develop an atomic bomb
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| show | President Truman decided to authorize dropping atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan
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| Explain the significance of the Selective Training Service Act. | show 🗑
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| show | Nazi war criminals were tried in Nuremberg, Germany and this established the concept that individuals are responsible for their own actions in war
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| Explain the significance of the Battle of the Bulge. | show 🗑
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| show | Popular name for women who worked in war production jobs
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| What helped the US emerge from the Great Depression? | show 🗑
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| show | Harry S Truman
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| After the Allies gained control in Africa, what was their next target? | show 🗑
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| show | Truman promised US support of nations who were trying to resist Soviet control. Congress gave $400 million to Turkey and Greece.
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| show | House Un-American Activities Committee, a committee that charged Hollywood figures of being sympathetic to Communist ideas and created a blacklist that cost many film jobs in Hollywood and elsewhere.
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| Explain the significance of Julius and Ethal Rosenberg. | show 🗑
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| show | Policy of making the military power of the US so strong that no enemy would dare to attack for fear of retaliation.
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| show | The Soviet Union.
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| Where were the Satellite Nations located? | show 🗑
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| How did the US respond to the Soviet Blockade of West Berlin? | show 🗑
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| Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall? | show 🗑
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| What was the cause of the Berlin Airlift? | show 🗑
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| What was NATO's principle? | show 🗑
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| Why did nations join NATO? | show 🗑
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| How did the Soviets respond to NATO? | show 🗑
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| show | The designated divider between noth and South Korea.
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| What was the result of America's involvment in the Korean War? | show 🗑
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| Why was MacArthur fired? | show 🗑
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| What reason did the US become involved in Middle Eastern affairs after WWII? | show 🗑
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| What did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin decide at the Yalta conference? | show 🗑
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| show | To expose Communists in US government.
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| For fifty years, what was the characteristic of the Cold War? | show 🗑
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| How did Truman react to the USSR's development of an atomic bomb? | show 🗑
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| When did Senator Joseph McCarthy's power fade? | show 🗑
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| show | To restrict the spread of Communism (containment) and to keep the US and its Allies so strong.
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| show | the Soviet Union
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| show | Americans wanted to build up the military.
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| What happened in the US after the launching of Sputnik? | show 🗑
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| What was the new role of women in the 1950's? | show 🗑
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| What was one result of the baby boom? | show 🗑
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| show | It gave teenagers a style that they could call their own.
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| show | Dr. Spock thought women should stay home and raise the children while Betty Friedan felt that women should work outside the home.
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| show | Through advertisements.
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| Describe the effects of major highway building in the 1950's. | show 🗑
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| How did Eisenhower, Coolidge, and Hoover feel about big business? | show 🗑
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| What was the accepted role of women during the 1950's? | show 🗑
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| show | They were diverse trends.
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| What happened when the government lifted price controls after WWII? | show 🗑
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| Identify and explain the significance of William J. Levitt. | show 🗑
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| Identify and explain the significance of evangelists. | show 🗑
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| show | Keeping inflation in check.
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| Identify and explain the significance of G.I. Bill of Rights of 1944. | show 🗑
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| show | A movement by artists and writers that was an expression of their non-conformity.
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| show | Easy and convenient to use.
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| Identify and explain the significance of computers. | show 🗑
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| show | Extended the New Deal's goals.
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| What policy did King and other members of the SCLC encourage in order to achieve a victory in the struggle for civil rights? | show 🗑
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| What teaching of Gandhi influenced Dr. King? | show 🗑
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| show | Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC)
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| show | It was considered to be the most segregated city in the US?
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| How did many people, even opponents of civil rights movement, feel after watching televison coverage of the happening in Birmingham? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote he famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"? | show 🗑
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| show | To propose a stronger civil rights bill.
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| Why did President Eisenhower call out the Arkansas National Guard in 1957? | show 🗑
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| Where did the Freedom Riders encounter resistance? | show 🗑
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| show | To test a US Supreme Court decision requiring desegregation of buses.
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| show | Because they were violently attacked.
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| What did the black power movement suggest that African Americans do? | show 🗑
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| show | To avoid upsetting Southern Democratic Senators.
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| show | To send delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
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| show | It became a more militant organization.
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| show | Lead their own communities.
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| Which leaders were assassinated in 1968? | show 🗑
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| show | de jure is segregation required by law and de facto is segregation that occurs by habit and tradition .
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| Who was the president that desegregated the military? | show 🗑
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| What was the goal of the March on Washington in 1963? | show 🗑
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| What were the highlights of the March on Washington? | show 🗑
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| show | Prohibited discrimination in public accommodations.
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| show | He overcame Senate filibusters.
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| Who organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)? | show 🗑
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| show | They spent time in jail.
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| show | In 1964, civil rights groups targeted Mississippi for a voter registration drive for minorities.
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| show | March with a goal of getting votiong rights legislation passed in Alabama.
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| Identify and explain the significance of Voting Rights Act of 1965. | show 🗑
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| show | US Supreme Court decision overturning the "separate-but-equal" doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson.
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| Identify and explain the significance of James Meredith. | show 🗑
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| show | A member and leader in the Nation of Islam who encouraged African Americans to separate from white society and was later assassinated.
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| show | One of the most important symbols of the civil rights movement, Posa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery City bus to a white.
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| Identify and explain the significance of Jackie Robinson. | show 🗑
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| show | Eliminated poll taxes.
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| Identify and explain the significance of Thurgood Marshall. | show 🗑
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| Who established the Peace Corps and why? | show 🗑
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| Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall? | show 🗑
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| show | To eliminate quotas restricting immigration from certain countries.
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| What challenge did John F. Kennedy give to the nation and NASA? | show 🗑
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| show | John F. Kennedy, to discourage the spread of Communism in Latin America.
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| show | Cuba- it was the site of an ill-fated, US- backed attempt by anti-Castro forces to land and overthrow the Castro regime.
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| How did the Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s affect apportionment (baker v. Carr)? | show 🗑
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| show | He was afraid that the Soviets would take over Europe.
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| What was a major guiding principle behind the foriegn policies of Kennedy and Johnson? | show 🗑
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| What was JFK's campaign promises in the 1960 elections? | show 🗑
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| What did the television debates show in the 1960 elections | show 🗑
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| What was the outcome of the election of 1960? | show 🗑
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| show | Kennedy's age and religion.
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| show | He was able to accomplish his political goals.
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| show | To promote healthcare legislation.
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| show | Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide because of Goldwater's radical views, Johnson received a strong mandate.
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| What was one criticism of economic programs? | show 🗑
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| Identify and explain the significance of JFK's lack of support in Congress. | show 🗑
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| Identify and explain the significance of Warren Court(What was the focus?). | show 🗑
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| Identify and explain the significance of the Cuban Missle Crisis (What was it and what was the result?). | show 🗑
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| Identify and explain the significance of Great Society (parts of and criticism of. | show 🗑
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| Identify and explain the significance of Lee Harvey Oswald. | show 🗑
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