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It was illegal to overthrow the american goverment.
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Authroized low-interest mortage loans for ex-serviemen
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This was dicussing what to do after the war which showed some reluctance from stalin to let Poland hold free elections due to the fact that it proved to be a perfect vantage point to invade the soviet union as Hitler had demonstrated.
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United States became handicapped diplomatically by the death.
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He had very little experience with foriegn affairs and was given a major amount information once he took office.
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At this meeting among the items discussed Truman shared with Stalin the fact that they had developed Nuclear power which Stalin had learned 2 weeks earlier becuase of soviet spies in the U.S.
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Truman insisted that if Greece and Turkey did not receive the aid that they needed, they would inevitably fall to Communism with consequences throughout the region. Thusly declaring that america would back any country who wanted to fight communism.
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this organization had the legal juristiction to investigate both new
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became the first african american player to play professional baseball thusly breaking the color barrier forever.
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The bill stated that contributions of indivduals couldn't be used in federal elections and that union leaders had to offically declare they were not communist.
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A civil rights movement that required armed gaurds to help protect blacks trying to desegregate schools.
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Provided funds to help the postwar economic infrastructure with economic assistance.
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Greatly supported by America this would lead to future conflicts with the middle east.
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for nearly 15 months American pilots flew in enough food and supplies for West Berlin to survive. The ultimately resulted in the blcokade to belifted in May 1949.
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The main provision of the NATO treaty was that an attack on one signatory nation would be considered an attack on all of them.
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Joseph Mccarthy gave speech announcing he had a list of 205 known communists working within the goverment.
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under the bill all communist or communist front organizations had to register with the goverment and the members of these groups could not work in any job related to national defense.
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as a candidate for vice president, Richard M. Nixon appears on national television to defend himself against reports that he had taken $18,000 from his supporters for his personal use and said the only thing he took for himself was hig dog checkers which his family wouldnt give up.
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Porved the evident arms race that was occuring during the time period as america was responding to the knowledge that soviet union now pocessed atomic bombs.
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This ultimately lead to more paranoia in America as there was now evidence of espionage occuring whithin the country.
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A ceasefire was signed and France agreed to withdraw its troops from the region and by 1956 free elctions were to be held in whcih unification of the whole country would commence.
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This court case ruled that seperate was not eqaul and demanded that all schools be desegregated as soon as possible.
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Symbolized an end to Mccarythism as it put Mccarthy in the stand and exposed his bullying tactics, and other means of getting so called confessions.
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A response to NATO the soviet union formed a similiar alliance with it's satellite nations.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and this lead to blacks carpooling and the eventual eqaulity on buses.
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forever connected citizens form city to city. It was ultimately created as an easy way to move millitary weapons.
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stated that americans arms would be used in the region to prevent communist aggression.
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The hopes of America reaching space seemed low at this point as soviets had already gotten the first man into space and they were lacking behind in what would later become known as the space race.
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The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges (through interpreters) between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. This made it evident the insecurity of americans during the era.
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by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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this was the single most radically formed student organization ever formed in american history and they would become the major opponets to the war in vietnam.
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became youngest american president ever at age 43,
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Cuba was isolated from america in every way possible including dimploatic relations.
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this was a failed attempt to liberate cuba from castro's control which proved to be a terrible failure and became a huge humliation for the beginning of Kennedy's presidency
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n May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a U.S. civil rights group, departed from Washington, D.C., and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South. African-American Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” re
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Alan Shepard became first man in space.
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the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight
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John Glen became first man to orbit the Earth thusly giving Amercia a new found optimism.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, The Missile Scare, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba.
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banned nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water.
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A political movement where more than 200,000 people marched on washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech.
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caused great controversy and resulted in the mood of new found hope to diminish greatly during the era.
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this was due to the fact that Kennedy had been assassinated earlier that day.
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The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
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authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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Gave President johnson the power to control the vietnam war without consulting congress.
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outlawed measures such as literacy tests which had been created to keep blacks from voting.
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National Organization for Women was founded by Freidan.
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Helped provide a way to get ahead for many pre-schools and required funding.
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Although the vietgong suffered amjor losses and lost the millitaristc point of view they won the political side as many americans viewed the battle as a loss and this drastically swayed public opinon against the war.
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resident Lyndon B. Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission) warned that racism was causing America to move “toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal
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Americans were using naplams on villages with innocent civilians in which 300 men, women, and children were massacred.
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Richard Nixon soon announced Vietnamzation of the war, which consisted of training the South Vietnamese army and gadually pulling forces out.
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Kennedy had said at the beginning of his presidency by the end of the decade they would walk on the moon and while he didn't live to see the day it caused great nationalistic pride over this monumental accomplishment.
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Was an outward manifestation of the "peace and love" rebels of the 1960's.
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On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close
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The papers revealed that the goverment had decieved the american public and congress about Vietnam as early as 1964.
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Trade talks were discussed and the biggest deciosn made was the fact that america would support Communist china to the united nations.
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taxed cars that were not energy efficient and deregulated the prices of domestic oil and gasoline.
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the first time the 2 superpowers agreed not to produce any more nuclear ballistics and to reduce their arsenals of antiballistic missiles to 200 per side.
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The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
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attracted thousands of readers which supported the ideals that women deserved the right to vote and gained much support.
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Court case made it legal for abortion major win for women's rights.
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60,000 Americans had died there.
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The Saturday Night Massacre was the term given by political commentators to U.S. President Richard Nixon's executive dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus
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with lack of support and the backlash of the scandal nixon finally resigned thusly marking a new era for american politics.
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Gerald ford's presidency seemd doomed as soon as he pardoned the previous president of all crimes as he felt in neccesary to move on and forget the past.
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58,000 Americans lost their lives in this war which seemed rather pointless and ultiamtly resulted in the fall of the country anyways.
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peace agreement between israel and egypt that was mediated by President jimmy carter
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They held hostages for 444 days as they demanded that America release the escaped leader so he could face trial in the middle east.
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also he refuses american athletes to compete in the 1980's olymipics in moscow.
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the hostages were returned to their families and this lead to a great amunt of national pride.
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this was created by Reagan to hopefully be able to fire nuclear weapons from space and invent lasers that would be able to shoot down any nuclear weaponn that would be fired at american soil before it got close.
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Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. They hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of several US hostages and use the money to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
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dramatically reduced federal tax rates.
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as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West