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AIDS
AIDS- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. different from HIV becasue hiv is a virus and aids is a condition.
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Elvis Presley
He transitioned music into the age of rock and roll. He always made a great performance. Made it less about the music and more about the performance. He combined ryhthm, blues,gospel, and country music to make it diverse. "Rock" is what we called it modern day.
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Charlie
Charlie", American military slang referring to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. "Charlie", the letter "C" in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
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SDS
tudents for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a United States student organization representing left wing ideals. It takes its name and inspiration from the original SDS of 1960–1969, then the largest radical student organization in US history.
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Robert Kennedy
he was the tireless and effective manager of John's presidential campaign. After the election, he was appointed Attorney General in President Kennedy's Cabinet. While Attorney General, he won respect for his diligent, effective, and nonpartisan administration of the Department of Justice.
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George Wallace
George Wallace famously said: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!" That same year, Wallace tried to halt the integration of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. And he tried to do it himself. Wallace famously stood in the doorway of an auditorium on the school's campus to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from entering.
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President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic president of the United States, sparked the idealism of “a new generation of Americans” with his charm and optimism, championed the U.S. space program, and showed cool dynamic leadership during the Cuban missile crisis, before becoming the victim of an assassination.
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Anti-War Protests
Massive gatherings of anti-war demonstrators helped bring attention to the public resentment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ... Despite the growing antiwar movement, a silent majority of Americans still supported the Vietnam effort. Many admitted that involvement was a mistake, but military defeat was unthinkable.
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President Gerald Ford
Ford has the distinction of being the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency. His presidency ended following his defeat in the 1976 presidential election by Democrat Jimmy Carter.
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Black Panthers
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
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Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. ... The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Nixon had to release the Oval Office tapes to government investigators.
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President Jimmy Carter
the energy crisis, Soviet aggression, Iran, and above all, a deep mistrust of leadership by his citizens. He was hard working and conscientious.Jimmy Carter was the second death knell for the old liberal politics of the. leadership in the protection of human rights around the world helped to subvert the power of communist and other dictatorial regimes, and eventually led to the human rights initiatives
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Iran-Contra Affair
The U.S. was illegally selling weapons to Iran and using the money to fund anti-communist revolution in another country.
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President Ronald Reagan
" won the cold war".tax reduction and a tightening of interest rates by the Federal Reserve led to a record period of peacetime economic growth. On the other, this growth was accompanied by record growth in the national debt, the federal budget deficit, and the trade deficit.
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Apple Computers
On August 2, 2018, Apple made history by becoming the first publicly traded U.S. company to be valued at $1 trillion, as measured by market capitalization.1 In August of 2020, the company broke records again by becoming the first U.S. company to reach a $2 trillion market cap.2 Apple (AAPL) hovered just below that level as of early October 2020.
cite: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/042815/story-behind-apples-success.asp