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Cold War
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. Key concepts 8.1 l
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Vietnam war
Was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam.
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Desegregation
Beginning with the infamous Brown vs. Board of Education, the road to desegregate schools was difficult. Especially in the deep south where many, not all, whites did everything in there power to keep schools segregated.
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space race
refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II, aided by captured German missile technology and personnel from the Aggregat program.
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Counterculture
refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.
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JFK assassination
Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, when he was fatally shot. Governor Connally was seriously wounded in the attack. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where President Kennedy was pronounced dead about thirty minutes after the shooting; Connally recovered from his injuries. -
LBJ's Great society
goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched during this period.
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Black panther party
The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.
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