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This was established by the New Deal to give young men jobs in

conservation areas and national parks

The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

Raising agricultural prices was the goal of this

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment

Administration)

This became a competitor to the AFL under the leadership

of John Lewis

CIO

This set the benchmark for electricity rates

The TVA

This was an alliance established in response to

Soviet aggression in Europe

NATO

At the war’s beginning, Britain and the US decided to focus

here first

European Theater

America invaded here first

North Africa

The battle considered the turning point in Europe was

this

D-Day

This was the first island taken by the United States after

Pearl Harbor

Guadalcanal

This was Hitler’s last counterattack on the

Western Front

The Battle of the Bulge

This was the policy of the US in response to Soviet

expansionism

Containment

This doctrine was based on fighting communist expansion by

giving money and weapons

Truman Doctrine

This was the first test of wills between the US and the USSR

Berlin Blockade / Airlift

This plan was enacted to rebuild Europe and keep out

communism

The Marshall Plan

They were executed for giving atomic secrets to the

Russians

The Rosenbergs

Passed by Congress, this allowed LBJ to dramatically

increase troop levels in Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The communist North resupplied communists in South Vietnam

using this

The Ho Chi Minh Trail

This 1968 event turned many in America against

the war

The Tet Offensive

This event was a true black mark against the US military

My Lai Massacre

This was Nixon’s plan to remove America from Vietnam honorably

Vietnamization

This court case established segregation in the US

Plessy v. Ferguson

This court case removed segregation in schools

Brown v. Board of Education

He was the most influential of all the Civil Rights

leaders

Martin Luther King

Once a black separatist, his spiritual change caused

his assassination

Malcolm X

This was arguably the most important civil

rights legislation in the twentieth century

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

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This was seen by many as a dress rehearsal for WWII

Spanish Civil War

Passed by Congress, this allowed the US to arm Britain

and Russia prior to Pearl Harbor

Lend-Lease

FDR outlined what the US would be fighting for in war in

this speech

The Four Freedoms Speech

Prior to Pearl Harbor, Japan informed America that this trade policy was no longer

recognized

The Open-Door Policy

Until Pearl Harbor, the American outlook towards

the world was this

Isolationist

They were considered a danger and placed in

internment camps

Japanese-Americans

WWII officially began with this event

German invasion of Poland

America’s strategy in the Pacific was this

Island-Hopping

He commanded US forces in the Pacific

General MacArthur

This secret project developed the A-Bomb

The Manhattan Project

Though fought by the US, this war was actually

between North Korea and them

The UN

Truman fired this general for insubordination

MacArthur

The Korean War brought him to the Presidency

Eisenhower

McCarthy got away with many of his accusations due

to this

The Big Lie

Kennedy faced his first defeat in his war on communism

here

Bay of Pigs

He won the 1968 presidential election by promising to end the Vietnam War honorably

Nixon

He was Nixon’s most influential advisor

Henry Kissinger

This term means “to lessen tensions” politically

detente

Nixon’s VP, he had to resign for crimes he had committed while governor of Maryland

Spiro Agnew

War protests here resulted in four student deaths

Kent State University

FDR’s first burst of New Deal programs became known as

this

The Hundred Days

The weakness of the AAA was this

It hurt sharecroppers

and tenant farmers

Faced with some programs being ruled unconstitutional FDR came up with this idea

Court-packing

This Second New Deal program has had the most lasting impact on the US

Social Security

FDR communicated directly with the American people in

this way

Fireside Chats

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This New Deal program was found to be unconstitutional by

the Supreme Court in Schecter v. United States

The NIRA

Steinbeck’s book told the story of a family migrating to

California

Grapes of Wrath

This New Deal program hired artists, writers, and

actors

WPA

She was a big supporter of civil rights for blacks during

the Depression

Eleanor Roosevelt

Of the three extremists, he was the biggest political

threat to FDR

Huey Long

WWII changed standards of living in

this way

Very little

40% of the war effort was financed through this

Taxes

Family demographics changed in this way

Increased marriage, birth, and divorce

rates

Tensions between young Hispanics and servicemen

erupted into this days after Pearl harbor

Zoot Suit Riots

This program helped servicemen with education

and other types of loans after the war

The GI Bill

His revolution established a communist state 90

miles from Florida

Fidel Castro

This was the world’s first man-made satellite

Sputnik

Eisenhower was forced to send US troops here to protect black students

Little Rock

He changed American music

Elvis

His birth in this year was unequaled in

magnificence and caused the angels to sing

Mr. Marshall - 1955

This 1962 event brought the world to the brink of nuclear

war

The Cuban Missile Crisis

This was the biggest issue of the 1960 election

Kennedy’s Catholicism

LBJ attempted to end poverty in America with this

huge program

The Great Society

He sought the Democratic nomination as a peace

advocate

Eugene McCarthy

His assassination gave Humphrey the 1968

Democratic nomination

Robert F. Kennedy

Nixon’s visit here in 1972 changed American

political policy

China

Most of the evidence against Nixon came on

these

Tape-recordings

The resignation of Nixon’s Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General after refusing to fire the

special prosecutor was called this by the press

The Saturday Night Massacre

Nixon did this rather than submit to impeachment

Nixon resigned

He was Nixon’s successor

Gerald Ford

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An ambassador to the USSR, his writings led to the Containment Policy

George Frost Kennan

He was the leader of China’s Nationalist Party and first

president of Taiwan

Chiang Kai-Shek

He was the primary leader of the migrant workers’

movement

Caesar Chavez

She wrote the Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

He conducted controversial sex surveys and studies

Alfred Kinsey

President carter’s greatest achievement was this peace

between Egypt and Israel

The Camp David Accords

After the Iranians won their revolution, they did

this to the American Embassy

Seized it and held all Americans hostage

This was the primary organization in pursuit of Native-American rights

AIM

This was the American response to the Soviet

invasion of Afghanistan

The arming of the Muhujadin

The US attempted to mend fences with the Americas through this

organization

OAS

This was President Reagan’s response to an

illegal strike by America’s air-traffic

controllers

He fired all of them

This group took over some university offices and sought

more power for students

SDS

This section of LA experienced traumatic

race riots in 1965

Watts

This became the slogan for black radicals

Black Power

He created this

Andy Warhol

In what way did black voting shift during FDR’s presidency

Blacks began voting for

Democrats

He ran against Truman in the 1948 election

Thomas Dewey

FDR first helped Britain in WWII by trading these for

bases in the Caribbean

50 destroyers

Truman gave this as his reason for dropping the

atomic bombs

He wanted to save American and Japanese

lives and end the war quickly

The Soviets saw their domination over

Eastern Europe as no different than America’s

domination here

Latin America

George Wallace ran for president in 1968 on this

platform

He wanted to end desegregation

This president recognized and supported the new

state of Israel

Truman

The Watergate Scandal began with

this

The capture of burglars breaking into Democratic Party HQ at the Watergate

Hotel

The Kent State incident was caused by protests against

Nixon’s invasion here

Cambodia

Though Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy ran

for the nomination in 1968, he was the eventual Democratic nominee

Hubert Humphrey