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| 6823908079 | Peace with Honor | Nixon administration plan to focus bringing North Vietnam to the negotiating table | 0 | |
| 6823908080 | William Calley | •charged with overseeing a massacre of more than 100 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in 1968 in the village of My Lai •attracted wide public attention to the dehumanizing impact of the war on those who fought it, and the consequences of those actions on the Vietnamese people | 1 | |
| 6823908081 | The Election of 1952 | •Eisenhower beats Stevenson. First republican to win election since Hoover-"I like Ike" campaign •Eisenhower-Nixon Ticket won in a landslide | 2 | |
| 6823908082 | Dwight Eisenhower | •leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2 and leader of troops in Africa and commander in D-Day invasion •Elected president and president during integration of Little Rock Central High School | 3 | |
| 6823908083 | Iron Curtain | •Term used by Churchill to describe the barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII | 4 | |
| 6823908084 | Marshall Plan | •A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe •This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | 5 | |
| 6823908085 | Henry Kissinger | •Harvard professor whom Nixon appointed as his special assistant for national security affairs ~Introduced Real Politik | 6 | |
| 6823908086 | Roe vs Wade | •1973 Supreme Court decision that invalidated all laws prohibiting abortion during the "first trimester." | 7 | |
| 6823908087 | NATO | •1949 alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nation involved •first alliance made when there wasn't a war going on | 8 | |
| 6823908088 | Richard Nixon | •He was a committee member of the House of Representatives and Committee on Un-American Activities • he was Eisenhower's Vice-President Won the presidency in 1968 | 9 | |
| 6823908089 | Nikita Khrushchev | •Stalin's successor, wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. •Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with him, France and Great Britain in Geneva, Switzerland in July, 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved | 10 | |
| 6823908090 | Energy Crisis | •when Carter entered office inflation soared, due to toe the increases in energy prices by OPEC. In the summer of 1979, instability in the Middle East produced a major fuel shortage in the US, and OPEC announced a major price increase | 11 | |
| 6823908091 | Pentagon Papers | • 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War | 12 | |
| 6823908092 | Jimmy Carter | •President who stressed human rights •Biggest success was the Camp David Accords | 13 | |
| 6823908093 | Gerald Ford | •president 1974-77, Nixon's Vice president, only person not voted into the White House, appointed vice president by Nixon •became president after Nixon resigned | 14 | |
| 6823908094 | Ho Chi-Minh | •He was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam | 15 | |
| 6823908095 | Fidel Castro | •Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the regime of the dictator Batista in 1959 and soon after established a Communist state | 16 | |
| 6823908096 | U-2 Incident | •an American plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denied the true purpose of the plane at first, but was forced to when the U.S.S.R. produced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to validate their claim of being spied on aerially •worsened East-West relations during the Cold War and was a great embarrassment for the United States | 17 | |
| 6823908097 | Silent Majority | that group of quiet honest hard-working middle class Americans who do their job, respect their country and support gov •Nixon wants their votes in 1968 and 1972 | 18 | |
| 6823908098 | 38th Parallel | •This location in Korea was the line crossed when the North Korean Army invaded the South in 1950 •The North Koreans cut their way easily to the heart of the South. However, General MacArthur, an American, was able to push the North Koreans back across this line with a surprise landing of UN forces at Inchon, near the border of the two Koreas | 19 | |
| 6823908099 | Bay of Pigs | •An invasion took place in April 1961 in this location in Cuba •With faulty intelligence, CIA operatives landed here and were immediately surrounded by unhappy Cubans. The invasion was a failure and an embarrassment for President Kennedy | 20 | |
| 6823908100 | Berlin Airlift | •This program delivered supplies to a German city, day after day, for 11 months. •the city had been cut off from Western contact by Joseph Stalin | 21 | |
| 6823908101 | The Great Society | •Lyndon Johnson's program for poverty relief, healthcare, civil rights, etc. during his presidency •Improved nation's moral and people's lives | 22 | |
| 6823908102 | McCarthyism | •This term came from the name of a Republican senator who started raising suspicion that communist besides Alger Hiss were still working in the State Department •this became like a witch hunt for communists--although many of the accusations were false | 23 | |
| 6823908103 | Sputnik | •This Russian satellite was launched in 1957- 1st satellite in space •When this happened, Americans were convinced that they had better get moving if they were to keep up with the Russian space programs | 24 | |
| 6823908104 | Martin Luther King | •United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968) | 25 | |
| 6823908105 | Alger HIss | •This man, who had assisted President Franklin Roosevelt during the Yalta Conference, was accused of leaking secrets to the communists •He denied any connections to the communist party or any spy networks. Nonetheless, he was convicted and sent to prison for perjury; he had falsely testified under oath that he had never been a member of a communist party | 26 | |
| 6823908106 | CIA | •This organization was provided for in the National Security Act in 1947. In 1953, this organization staged a coup that led to the return of the corrupt and ruthless Shah of Iran •Similarly, this organization aided in the overthrow of a left-leaning government in Guatemala in 1954 | 27 | |
| 6823908107 | WAACS | •Women in the army and WAVEs were women in the navy •Most female work was clerical | 28 | |
| 6823908108 | Truman Doctrine | •In March 1947, Truman made this speech where he asked Congress for funding to assist Greece and Turkey in repelling a possible communist take-over •The president's speech explained that the United States had a duty to give financial assistance to free nations under communist threat. This policy passed its first test, as both Greece and Turkey successfully thwarted communism | 29 | |
| 6823908109 | Vietnamization | •This process was Nixon's plan to turn the war over to those who should be fighting it--the Vietnamese. This process involved the United States military instructing the South Vietnamese on how to go about fighting the war of their own •The number of U.S. troops in the country slowly decreased. Within the span of three years, the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam decreased from 500,000 in 1969 t just under 30,000 in 1972 | 30 | |
| 6823908110 | John F. Kennedy | •The Democratic nomination for the 1960 presidential election •he won with just enough delegates behind him for the nomination. He was the first Catholic presidential candidate since Al Smith in 1928 | 31 | |
| 6823908111 | Camp David Accords | •occurred when President Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to meet at the presidential retreat in Maryland. Sadat and Begin discussed peace options while Carter acted as mediator •signed in September 1978. The treaty served as the first step toward peace in the Middle East since the founding of the states of Israel in 1948 | 32 | |
| 6823908112 | Warsaw Pact | •Joseph Stalin formed this alliance in 1955, which provided the military protection but at a cost •once a country was a member, it could never leave the alliance | 33 | |
| 6823908113 | Robert F. Kennedy | •american politician •attorney general during brothers presidency and was assassinated during his bid for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination | 34 | |
| 6823908114 | Rock 'N' Roll | •"crossover" musical style that rose to dominance in the 1950s, merging rhythm and blues with white bluegrass and country •featuring a heavy beat and driving rhythm, rock 'n' roll music became a defining feature of 1950s | 35 | |
| 6823908115 | OPEC | •Cartel compromising Middle Eastern states and Venezuela first organized in 1960, it aimed to control access to and prices of oil, wresting power from Western oil companies and investors •In the process, it gradually strengthened the hand of non-Western powers on the world stage | 36 | |
| 6823908116 | Baby Boom | •A cohort of individuals born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, which was just after World War II in a time of relative peace and prosperity •These conditions allowed for better education and job opportunities, encouraging high rates of both marriage and fertility | 37 | |
| 6823908117 | J. Robert Oppenhiemer | •lead the Manhattan Project •the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear bomb. He was remembered as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb." | 38 | |
| 6823908118 | NASA | • US government agency in charge of the space program | 39 | |
| 6823908119 | Levittown | •In 1947, first mass-produced suburban neighborhood after WWII | 40 | |
| 6823908120 | Domino Theory | •Made by President Eisenhower •if S Vietnam fell under Communist Control, one nation after another in SE Asia would also fall, until Australia and New Zealand were in dire danger | 41 | |
| 6823908121 | Beatniks | •A group of rebellious writers and intellectuals •They advocated spontaneity, use of drugs, and rebellion against social standards | 42 | |
| 6823908122 | Fair Deal | •Truman's policy of social improvement, which included support for increasing welfare, slum clearance, and civil rights •Most of his Fair Deal bills were shot down, save his initiative to expand unemployment benefits | 43 | |
| 6823908123 | GI Bill 1944 | provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as GIs or G. I.s) as well as one-year of unemployment compensation •It also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses | 44 | |
| 6823908124 | United Nations | •An international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues •It was founded in 1945 | 45 | |
| 6823908125 | Cold War | •A constant nonviolent state of hostility between the Soviet Union and the US •began shortly after WWII with the rapid extension of Soviet influence over eastern Europe and North Korea; ended with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union | 46 | |
| 6823908126 | World Bank | •an international bank established in 1944 to help member nations reconstruct and develop, esp. by guaranteeing loans: a specialized agency of the United Nations | 47 | |
| 6823908127 | Joseph Stalin | •Soviet leader during WWII. He created consecutive five year plans to expand heavy industry. He tried to crush all opposition and ruled as the absolute dictator | 48 | |
| 6823908128 | Mao Zedong | •this mad led the Communist Party of China (CPC) against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War, allowing the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 | 49 | |
| 6823908129 | Arms Race | •competition between two or more parties for military supremacy •the most prominent instance of such a competition was the rapid development by the United States and the Soviet Union of more and better nuclear weapons during the Cold War | 50 | |
| 6823908130 | Containment Policy | •Refers to the foreign policy strategy of the U.S. in the early years of the Cold War •it attempted to stop what it called the domino effect of nations moving politically towards Soviet Union-based communism, rather than European-American-based democracy •america in the world •cold war | 51 | |
| 6823908131 | Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. | 52 | |
| 6823908132 | Rosenberg Case | •Americans who were executed for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the USSR | 53 | |
| 6823908133 | Supply-side economics | Give tax breaks to the wealthy and the money will "trickle down" to the middle class and poor | 54 | |
| 6823908134 | Great Migration | During and after WWI, large numbers of African Americans move North for job opportunities | 55 | |
| 6823908136 | Social Security | Part of FDR's New Deal. Provided retirement benefits for the elderly and disabled | 56 | |
| 6823908137 | Emergency Banking Act | New Deal plan that restructured financial institutions and introduced the FDIC | 57 | |
| 6823908138 | New Frontier | Name given to Kennedy's domestic policies that included aid to education, poverty relief, and civil rights | 58 |
