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WAR
1945-1991
Cold War—The state of
hostility, without direct
military conflict, that
developed between the US
and the USSR
 Capitalism(democracy) vs.
Communism
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 FDR
 Truman
 Eisenhower
 Kennedy
 Johnson
NIXON
FORD
CARTER
REAGAN
BUSH 41
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*World organization to keep peace
*Met in San Francisco
*UN Security Council
US
Great Britain
France
USSR
China
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Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct
military conflict, that developed between the US
and the USSR
Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism
Eastern Europe/Satellite nation/Eastern Bloc
“Iron Curtain”
Containment—US policy of blocking (or
containing) the spread of communism
Truman Doctrine—**TURKEY & GREECE**
US would provide economic and military aid to
any country threatened by communism
H-bomb
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Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan
Berlin Crisis/Berlin Airlift
Korean War/*limited war/*fired MacArthur (quote)
McCarthy/McCarthyism
Rosenburgs/Alger Hiss
H-Bomb
CIA
NATO
Red China
Israel became a nation--198
HUAC
Israel became a nation
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Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct
military conflict, that developed between the US
and the USSR
Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism
Eastern Europe/Satellite nation/Eastern Bloc
“Iron Curtain”
Containment—US policy of blocking (or
containing) the spread of communism
Truman Doctrine—**TURKEY & GREECE**
US would provide economic and military aid to
any country threatened by communism
H-bomb
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Warsaw Pact
Korean War/ceasefire
Brinkmanship/MAD/Civil defense drills
Secretary of State—John Foster Dulles
Suez Canal—Egypt--Nasser, Israel, UN
Eisenhower Doctrine
Sputnik/Explorer I/NDEA
Hungarian uprising
U-2 incident
Cuba and Castro
Domino theory
Military-Industrial Complex
Flexible Response
 Peace Corps
 Bay of Pigs Invasion
 Berlin Wall
 Cuban Missile Crisis
 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
 Hot Line
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1. TRUMAN
 2. EISENHOWER
 3. KENNEDY
 4. LBJ
 5. NIXON
 6. FORD
 7. CARTER
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FAIR DEAL
 LETTERS TO BESS
 DESEGREGATED THE
MILITARY-Exec Order # 9981
 MCCARTHY
 HUAC
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Class Cartoon
Baby Boom; Mom at home; TV dinner
Highway Act 1956/interstate, suburbs
Levittown
Sun Belt-sunny states of s & sw
RockNRoll-Elvis Presley
Billy Graham
Brown v. Brd of Ed/Rosa Parks/LRCrisis
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Television Debate with Nixon
New Frontier
Attorney General-Robert (Bobby)
Kennedy
Peace Corps
John Glenn—1st American to orbit earth
Assassination—11/22/63 in Dallas, TX
*Lee Harvey Oswald; Warren Comm
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Great Society/War on Poverty
Kennedy’s VP/Election of 1964
Civil Rights of 1964/Voting Rights of 1965
Medicare—medical insurance for over 65
Medicaid—medical insurance for welfare
Robert Weaver—1st black Cab Sec-HUD
Vietnam War—Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Warren Court
NIXON
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Détente-relaxing of tension between
US/USSR
Woodstock-outdoor rock concert in Aug ‘69
Communist China visit
Visit to USSR/Brezhnev-leader of USSR
Henry Kissinger-NSA then Secretary of
State
Spiro Agnew-VP who resigned
Gerald Ford-new VP (appointed)
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SALT-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(treaty)
ERA-Equal Rights Amendment/Roe v. Wade
Neil Armstrong-1st man on moon; quote
Watergate-1st president to resign; quote
Chappaquiddick-incident involving T.
Kennedy
EPA-Environmental Protection Agency
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“I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln”
VP was Nelson Rockefeller
1st non-elected (appointed) pres
South Vietnam fell to communism
Pardoned President Nixon
Bicentennial celebration
Khmer Rouge-communists in
Cambodia
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From Georgia; family
VP was Walter Mondale
Iran Hostage Crisis-52;Teheran;
Shah;Attempt
Camp David Accords-Israel&Egypt; leaders
Invasion of Afghanistan by USSR
1980 Moscow Olympics boycott
Panama Canal Treaty
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1) Becomes Panama’s in 2000
2) US & Panama keep canal neutral
Three Mile Island almost nuclear disaster