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COLD WAR REVIEW FOR THE FINAL
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• Federal legislation that created a package of benefits for veterans of WWII. It gave money for higher education and loans to buy homes. Therefore, more veterans enrolled in college than ever before.
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To remove weapons or decrease the number of troops in the military
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Term given to the time period were WWII vets came back from war and started families which led to an increase in population.
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Economic system based upon the equal distribution of wealth. All businesses and capital are owned and controlled by the government.
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• Who was President during most of the 50’s?
• Vice President?
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Man who accused Alger Hiss of being a communist. He was previously an editor for TIME magazine.
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• American citizens and Communist party members who were thrust into the world spotlight when they were tried, convicted, and executed by the US for spying for the Soviet Union.
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Nickname for the Evidence found against Alger Hiss.
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• Term used to describe the inability of someone to get a job in the United States after being placed on a list of suspected communists
LIST OF SUSPECTEDCOMMUNISTS
-Santa clause-Easter Bunny
- The Italian Stalion -Fred
-Swiderman -Mr. Freeze
Hint: The paper is “Black “
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Economic system based upon profit
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This guy ratted out the Rosenbergs by testifying against them in court
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• Term used to describe the witch hunt that occurred in when Senator McCarthy claimed that he had a list of Communists in the U.S. government.
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Name of the organization that hunted
down suspected
Communists during the Cold
War.
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• Nickname for this guy for his reputation of hunting down suspected communists.
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• What president changed the look of the military by reducing the number of soldiers and increasing the number of bombs and planes
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• What plan provided aid in the form of money and supplies to W. Europe to stop the spread of communism?
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- name for the military defense alliance between non-communist countries
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• Name for the alliance that was formed in response to NATO. It included many communist countries.
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• Name for the policy set forward by President Truman in which he stated that it was the responsibility of the United States to prevent the spread of communism.
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• Korea was divided after WWII due to the fact that the country that controlled it lost WWII to the Allies. What country is this?
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Name at least one effect of the Interstate
Highway System that
was developed in
1965
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• Name of this suburb in New York built after WWII. It was named after its owner.
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• On what line was Korea divided after WWII?
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• What was the official policy the US had in preventing the spread of communism?
Communism
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• This war began when the Northern, communist side of this country invaded the Southern democratic side.
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• At the end of the Korean War, how much had the borders of communism and democracy changed in the country?
• Hint
Before
After
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• What major Asian nation became communist after WWII?
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Another name for a city area
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• What is the belief that if one 3rd world country falls to Communism then many other neighboring countries will fall to communism as well?
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• Hi, I’m the guy that got fired by Truman because I wanted to open up a new front in the Korean War and attack China. Earlier in my career I was responsible for fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. Even earlier in my career I tear gassed the bonus army.
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• Hi, I make a beeping sound and I float around the Earth. I was the first satellite to be sent into space
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• When the Soviet Union sent a satellite into space, what subjects did the U.S. believe needed to be stressed more in public schools?
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Another name for a farming area
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List one way that teenagers in the 1950’s were different than teenagers during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
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In the 1950’s name one responsibility of a woman during the 1950’s
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The group of actors and directors who were arrested after not cooperating with HUAC
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The Hollywood 10 were from this state
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The pumpkin papers were found in this state.
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Another name for the area outside of a city
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CIVIL RIGHTS REVIEW FOR FINAL
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Court case that stated that “separate but equal” was indeed constitutional and that whites and blacks could stay segregated.
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Where did the Plessey v Ferguson case take place?
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• Court decision that resulted in the integration of public schools.
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Refusing to use a service or buy a good as a way of protesting.
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Organization which fought for the better treatment and equal rights for minorities in America.
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• Hi, I’m the woman who refused to give up my seat to a white man.
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Term used to describe the Civil Liberties that are
guaranteed to ALL Americans by law such as
voting and equal treatment
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Where did the Brown v Board of Education take Place?
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• At what diner did the first sit- ins occur. In what state did these first protests occur?
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• This protest involved blacks refusing to ride buses in Montgomery Alabama.
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• Name one tactic used by civil rights demonstrators during the Civil Rights movement.
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Term used to describe the fee that African Americans had to pay in order to vote or register to vote.
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• I was the most vocal leader of the Nation of Islam.
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Alabama Police Chief who used violent tactics against African American protestors. Also arrested MLK.
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• Governor of Alabama who refused to integrate the University of Alabama
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Test in which African Americans had to prove that they could read and write as a requirement to vote.
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1 reason why Nixon may have lost the election of 1960.
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Whose philosophy of civil disobedience did MLK follow?
CLICK TO FIND OUT
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Leader of the NAACP. He would also become a member of the Supreme Court
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Nickname for the students who integrated this high school in 1957.
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This Act eliminated literacy tests as a requirement for voting in the U.S
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Name for riots that occurred after a black man was pulled over on suspicions of drunk driving. These riots lasted nearly 6 days.
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• State the Little Rock 9 were from
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Term meaning to bring people of all races together.
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State in which the Watts Riots occurred
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• Name for the black movement that became impatient waiting for civil rights, and instead wanted to have equal rights and be totally separate from the whites.
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• Name for 9 students who were the first blacks to be integrated under the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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• This amendment eliminated poll taxes.
• (Hint: Think of the stupid cheer)
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Radical group concerned with achieving black separatism during the 1960’s.
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• Leader of the Montgomery improvement Association (MIA). Was assassinated by James Earl Ray
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• Group of civil rights activists in the early 1960s who rode buses through the southern United States to test the enforcement of integration laws. White protestors beat and firebombed them on their way south.
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• What does the NAACP stand for?
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• State that Lyndon Johnson was from
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• Term used to describe forced separation. often by race.
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REVIEW FOR JFK AND LBJ FOR FINAL
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• Who was able to win the election of 1960 with the help of this new technology.
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Candidates of the 1964 election.
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How did LBJ become President of the U.S.?
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Building where the shots that killed JFK came from.
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The add below was an attack on which Presidential candidate? What was the name of this ad?
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Who were the 2 candidates in the 1960 election?
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• Who was JFK’s Attorney General?
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• Embarrassing event for the U.S. in which CIA trained Cuban rebels invaded and attempted to overthrow the Cuban leader
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Act which would have ensured that both men and women who were citizens of the United States would have been treated equally. However, it never was ratified.
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• Organization that trains and sends American volunteers overseas to work with people of developing countries.
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• Who assassinated JFK?
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• A dangerous moment in the cold war when the Soviets attempted to place nuclear weapons on an island, just ninety miles from Florida. Due to this event, the U.S. agreed not to invade Cuba.
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Feminist who wrote the book shown below:
Click to Find out
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Conservative woman who advocated (supported) women playing the role of housewife and homemaker. Fought against the Equal Rights Amendment.
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• What did the Great Society declare war on?
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• In what state was JFK assassinated?
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• Name of the committee which determined that Kennedy was killed by 1 (and only 1) assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald
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• Name for LBJ’s Domestic program that declared war on poverty and racial discrimination
What kind of society would I
say that it was?
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• What is the program designed to aid the elderly known as?
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Great society program which helped children of poor families to get a good beginning in school
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• What is the program designed to aid those too poor to afford health care?
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• Communist leader of Cuba that the U.S. wanted to overthrow.
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• List one event that the older generation of the 1960’s and 70’s went through that caused a generation gap between them and their children.
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• Term used to describe the young people of the 60’s and 70’s who defied “the establishment”. The hippies were an example.
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Members of the counterculture opposed this war.
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HINT
What does NOW stand for? What did they fight for?
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• What President came up with the idea for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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• Court Case which made prayer in school Unconstitutional
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• Law which determined that discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal in any educational program receiving federal funding
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• Court decision that says police must advise a suspect that he has, “the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law…”
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Court case that ruled that the school-sponsored reading of the Bible for non-teaching purposes in school was unconstitutional
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Review for the Final for Vietnam
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• LBJ stopped bombing raids on Vietnam to help out which presidential candidate?
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Name the Catholic leader the JFK administration placed in South Vietnam. The U.S. would later not prevent this man from being assassinated.
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• What is the belief that if one 3rd world country falls to Communism then many other neighboring countries will fall to communism as well?
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Result of Vietnam war
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Result of Korean war
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• Resolution that gave LBJ wide ranging power to conduct war in Vietnam.
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Incident that brought the United States into military conflict with North Vietnam
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• Which of the following
does not describe the average soldier in Vietnam:
• Average age was19 years old
• From rich families • Lower to middle class• Single
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• The term applied to Communist rebels (about 10,000) left in hideouts in South Vietnam. They used guerilla war tactics against the U.S. soldiers
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What happened in South Vietnam after the United States left?
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When Nixon announced that the U.S. was bombing and invading Cambodia, students at this school protested by burning the ROTC building. The protests resulted in students being killed by members of the National Guard
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• A network of roads built from North Vietnam to South Vietnam, going through the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia. Purpose was to provide weapons and supplies to the Vietcong.
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Event which made the U.S. realize Diem was probably not a good fit for South Vietnam.
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List one way that men resisted the draft in the U.S.
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• A massacre by U.S. soldiers of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. It prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced American support at home for the war in Vietnam
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• N. Vietnamese and Viet Cong major offensive throughout South Vietnam. In January ’68. It dramatically contradicted optimistic claims by the U.S. government that the war had already been won.
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Who did the American people vote for in the Election of 1968? Why do you believe they voted that way?
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Students at this black college were killed by police officers while protesting against the Vietnam war.
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• In what state did the Kent State shooting take place?
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• The #1 reason why the United States became involved in Vietnam
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• What way did Nixon state that he wanted to end the war in Vietnam?
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• U.S. program of turning over to the South Vietnamese government responsibility for waging the conflict, in order to implement withdrawal of U.S. military personnel and buy time for Nixon to negotiate a settlement
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NIXON / FORD / CARTER REVIEW FOR THE FINAL
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• This act prohibits the President from waging war beyond 60 days - without Congressional approval.
Limited the power of the PresidentMaking the executive branch weaker
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When a country refuses to trade with another country its is known as….?
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• What made Nixon’s popularity increase in 1972?
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• Scandal during the Nixon administration in which members of Nixon’s re-election campaign stole Democratic Party secrets from the hotel shown below. This scandal forced Nixon to resign.
Named after this building
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• The Supreme court case which ruled that states could not prevent a woman from having an abortion in the United States.
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Period of time in which there were relaxed tensions between the U.S. and the USSR.
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• What was the cornerstone of Carter’s foreign policy?
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Name of Nixon’s foreign policy advisor
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• Carter helped make a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt with this agreement.
Egypt Carter (US) ISRAEL
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• Area near Niagara Falls NY, in which nearly 20,000 tons of chemical waste was sealed into metal drums, dumped in a canal and filled over. The chemicals eventually rose to the surface leading to deformities, miscarriages, and cancers in the surrounding populations.
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This Act taxed gas guzzling cars
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• An island in the Susquehanna, southeast of Harrisburg, PA. It was the site of a the worst nuclear accident in the U.S. on March 28, 1979, Pregnant women were evacuated from the area.
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What major economic problem did Ford have to deal with during his administration?
Hint
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What was the name of Ford’s plan to fix the economy?
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Name of Nixon’s VP who resigned due to allegations that he accepted bribes.
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Under what President were the Iranian hostages released?
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• Iran despised the United States due to the fact that we supported this guy. Who was he?
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What affect did the war between Israel vs. Syria and Egypt (due to OPEC’s involvement) have on the U.S.?
Hint: What is this graph showing?
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CONTEMPORY AMERICA REVIEW FOR FINAL
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• What was the idea to have a missile shield in which a satellite from outer space would be developed to shoot down any missile headed towards the US. Its abbreviation was SDI.
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Name of the woman that Reagan appointed to the Supreme Court
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•What was the nickname for SDI?
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Two leaders of the Moral Majority
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Nickname of Reagan's economic policy in which he gave tax cuts to big businesses in hopes that they would invest money and start new businesses and therefore hire more workers.
ALSO known as……..
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• What did Reagan do to protect the US and its allies against the USSR?
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• What was the result of Reagan’s budget
Reagan Administration
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Term given to the Reagan administration for their stand on low taxes, cutting government programs, and building up the military. The opposite of a Liberal.
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Disease that developed during Reagan's term in office. At first was primarily found in the homosexual population.
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The U.S. boycotted these Olympic games in 1980
The USSR boycotted these Olympic games in 1984
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Leader of Iraq during the 1980’s
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• Codename for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 1991.
Click here to find out
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Scandal where the U.S. sold weapons it Iran and used the money to fund anti-communist forces in Nicaragua. The hope was the sale of the weapons would lead to the release of American hostages in Lebanon.
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1989 – Under which
U.S. President did The Berlin Wall come
down?
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• The US attacked Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf War because Saddam Hussein invaded this country.
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Act which stated that all people with disabilities deserve equal treatment in terms of employment, schooling, and access to buildings.
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How much media access did the U.S. government allow during the Persian Gulf War?
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Leader of U.S. forces during Desert Storm
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Who were the candidates in the 1988 election. Who won?
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• What nation ceased to exist during Bush’s administration?
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• Supreme Court justice nominated by George Bush who was accused of sexually harassing Anita Hill.
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Event in which Chinese protestors stood up against their communist government.
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• 3rd Party candidate and entrepreneur during the 1992 and 1996 elections
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Who were the candidates in the 1992 Election?
Who won?
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• Where were US troops sent in 1993 along with a UN peacekeeping force? After US soldiers died here, President Clinton recalled these soldiers back to the US without restoring order.
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Terrorist attack in 1995 committed by Timothy McVeigh
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Shooting that occurred at a high school in Colorado in April of 1999.
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Who were the candidates in the 1996 Election. Who
won?
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• What state played a critical role in the 2000 election?
I...I do believe I
won!
I...I do believe I
won!
Gosh darn Sunshine
State.
Gosh darn Sunshine
State.
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• Date of the attack on the US in which an Islamic extremist group known as Al Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden terrorists hijacked and crashed commercial airliners into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. It was the largest terrorist attack on the US in history.
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Since September 11 occurred, what military action have we taken against other countries?
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President bush created this Department in 2000 to safeguard America by preventing terrorist attacks.
