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1st permanent English settlement in North America.
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First legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America
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Slavery began when the first African slaves were brought to the colony Jamestown.
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Document where they agreed to obey laws created for the general good
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The English and French both wanted th land west of the Appalachians. England won
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The Treaty of Paris is where England got the land west of the Appalachians and Canada
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It prohibited colonists from settling west. England places troops in colonies to protect colonist, but it is said that the troops controlled the colonists.
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The Stamp Act put taxes on legal documents such as newpapers or any other public or legal documents.
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A mob of anti- British demonstraters formed to compete over jobs. British troops fired and killed 5 colonists.
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England put restrictions on tea and the colonists boarded tea ships and threw the tea into the water.
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A meeting held in Philadelphia where representatives from the 13 colonies colonies met except for Georgia. They issued a statement of colonial rights and urged colonies to form militias.
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Minutemen assembled here and fighting erupted in Massachusets. British troops attacked a weapons stockpile.
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This created the Continental Army and issued the "Olive Branch Petition" which was the final peace offer. Gearge Washington was general.
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It was issued by the Continental Congress. Thomas Jefferson wrote it, he was from Virginia. This is where the colonies officially seperated from England
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Where the 13 newly indepedent states united to one country which is called the United States of America. The American polotical leaders adopted a weak national government. They feared a strong central government like England had.
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Americans and French surrounded General Cornwallis and his troops. The French Navy blocked the exit of the Chesapeake Bay and Cornwallis surrendered.
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A time period from 1781-1788 in which the United States was under the Articles of Confederation. There was huge war debt, inflation, disputes among states, and more.
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Where England acknowledged America Independence, The US's boundaries were the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.
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A success during the Critical Period which established a plan for surveying the western lands.
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The Annapolis Convention called to settle disputes among the states over commerce but only five states showed up. They decided to have another meeting in Philidelphia.
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George Washington presided over the convention but barely took part in the debates. James Madison led the debates and was known as the "Father of the Constitution". The convention was from May to September 1787 and held in Philadelphia.
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This created a two-house congress; Senate and the House of Representatives. It balanced the power between the large and small states.
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Also a success of the Critical Period and it provided the process for the creation and admission of new states.
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Debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts rebel because of high taxes.
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Slaves were now counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a state's representation in the House of Representatives. It placated the southern states.
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Washington was the first president of the United States from 1789-1797. He set up the government with three executive departments were created in the government. Washinton stayed neutral in wars.
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This set up the court system
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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments written by James Madison. This deals with rights and liberties.
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John Adam's defeated Thomas Jefferson. John Adam's was a Federalist and Thomas Jefferson was a Democratic-Republican.
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He was from Richmond, VA
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Democratic-Republican, Thomas Jefferson, defeated Federalist, John Adams in the election of 1800. This was the first peaceful transfer of power from one party to another.
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This is where Marshall declared a law unconstitutional and it established the power of judicial review.
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Jefferson bought the land from the French and it doubled the size of the United States. It was the land from the Missisippi River to the Rocky Mountains. Lewis and Clark traveled and explored this territory.
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A few of the causes for the War of 1812 were the British interference with American shipping and the British aid to the Indians in the west. So President Madison calls for was and was supported by the Southern and Western Democratic-Republicans. The United States won.. kind of.
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Where the Marshall upheld the federal government's right to establish a bank. It said that a state couldn't tax the bank because of national supremacy and it established the doctrine of implied powers. It also showed the Court could go between states and the federal government.
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This divided the Louisiana Purchase at 36, 30. North of the line was free and South of the line was slave. Missouri was a slave state and Maine was free.
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This divided the Lousiana Purchase. North of the line was free and south of the line was slave. Maine was a free state and Missouri was a slave state. It maintained the balance of free and slave states in America.
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The time when democracy in the United States had expanded and more people got involved in the electoral process. Also Americans had no longer let aristocrats make all decisions.
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The Court overturned a steamboat monopoly and it confirmed the federal government's power over commerce.
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This was invented by Eli Whitney and it made cotton growing very profitable. The deep south became the "Cotton Kingdom". It also increased and expanded slave use westward.
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This was made by President Monroe and it warned Europe against future colonization in the Americas. Also any interference in any independent country in the Western Hemisphere. It said the west was different from Europe.
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He personified the democratic spirit of age. Jackson also challenged the economic elite and he used the Spoils System a lot.
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Appealed to the common man voters not wealthy. He made the Spoils System also which is rewarding campaign supporters by giving them public offices(jobs).
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This forced all Indians east of the Mississippi River to move to Indian Territory. It was passed by Jackson's request.
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This forced all Indians east of the Mississippi River to move to the Indian Territory. It was passed at Andrew Jacksons's request.
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In Southampton, VA. Led 80 slaves against 4 plantations and were caught and hung.
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The Alamo is an old mission house and the Texans fortified themselves there. The Mexican general, Santa Anna, attacked with superior forces and fought until their last man died.
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The Alamo is an old mission house where Texans fortified themselves. The Mexican General Santa Anna attacked with superior forces and they fought until their last man died.
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This battle was where the Texans won independence led by Sam Houston. This established the Republic of Texas
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This is where Texas won independence and it was led by Sam Houston and it established the Republic of Texas.
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The incorporation the Republic of Texas into the United States of America.
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This was where Texas was incorperated into the United States.
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President James K. Polk urged this war and they wanted the Southeast but Mexico wouldn't sell. The United States defeated Mexico easily.
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President James K. Polk urged this war and wanted the Southeast but Mexico wouldn't sell it.
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Gold was found and everyone rushed to go get it.
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1st women's rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, NY. The leader was Elizabeth Cody Stanton and they issued the Seneca Falls Declaration.
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California entered as a free state. The Southwestern territories would decide their own
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Indians were forced off their lands onto smaller and smaller reservations.
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This was a part of the Compromise of 1850 and it made it easier to catch runaway slaves. Many of the Northerners refused to enforce this law.
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This was a book by Harriet Beecher Stowe and it was widely read by people. It protrayed the evils of slavery and increased support in the North for abolition.
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Repeated the Missouri Compromise line by giving KN and NB "popular sovereignty". This caused Bleeding Kansas which was a fight between pro and anti slavery forces in Kansas. The birth of the Republican Party.
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Dred Scot, a slave, sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans aren't citizens so he had no right to sue and Congress had no right to ban slavery in the territory. The case overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery.
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The main issue inthis was slavery and Abraham Lincoln who was a republican, won.
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This was the first battle of the Civil War. Fort Sumter was in South Carolina but it stayed under Union control. Confederated fired on Union ships that we
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A law that gave free public land in the West in 160 acre plots and the only conditions were that the settlers had to use it for at least 5 years and the purpose was to encourage Americans to settle in the west.
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Lee went North and lost at Antietam, Maryland.
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This freed slaves in the "rebelling" states. Norther war aim was abolishing slavery not just restoring the union. It discouraged foreign intervention and Lincoln started to use black toops with Frederick Douglass's urging.
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Lee pushed North into Pennsylvania in this three day battle then had to retreat.
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This happend in Mississippi and it cut the Confederacy in half. Grant won.
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Abraham Lincoln's speech and a dedicating cemetery.
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Established seperate facilities for whites and blacks. Schools, train cars, etc.
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This abolished slavery.
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The process of restoring Southern states to the Union. Process of determining the position of African Americans
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Surrender of Lee
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He was killed by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the war.
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To unite the nation. Military districts.
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Samuel Tilden. Rutherford B. Hayes who was a republican won.
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State and federal citizenship for all people regardless of race
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The right to vote could not be denied.
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A plan under which Indians would be forced to adopt Amercian culture
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Union founded by Uriah Stevens
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Restricting Immigration to the United States
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The Knights of Labor protested in Chicago and a bomb went off near the police. 8 of the strikers were convicted.
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The founder was Samuel Gompers. This union was composed of the craft union and they used collective bargaining.
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The goal was to Americanize the Indians. This broke up reservations and divided them into individual parts and legally abolished tribes.
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This was a 20th century reform movement. It used the government to institute reforms to fix problems caused by industrialization.
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This prevented any business structure that restrained trade and the goal was to outlaw monopolies/trusts. This wasn't successful
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At the Carnegie Steel Plant. Plant manager HEnry Frick called the Pinkerton Detective Agency and their was a major gun battle.
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Founded by Eugene V. Debs.
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this was a strike by the Pullman workers and started a nationwide railroad boycott and the federal government ended it.
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S.C. said "seperate but equal" did not violate the 14th Amendment. It upheld Jim Crow Laws of segregation.
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The Spanish American war was composed of Cubans rebelling against Spansh rule, Yellow Journalists, The de Lome Letter, and the united states' ship USS Maine that exploded outside of Cuba.
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The United States annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines and Cuba became free.
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This was by the Secretary of State John Hay and it gave all nations equal trading rights in China. It called for fair competition and the goal was to end U.S and European competition. They urged foreigners to obey Chinese law.
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The goal was to remove foreign influence and it failed.It was by Chinese boxers.
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excluding all non-european immigrants
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The United States asserted the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
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Theodore Roosevelt added to the Monroe Doctrine and reminded Europe not to interfere and said the U.S. would use force to protect its interests in Latin America.
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She was a strong leader of the woman's suffrage movement
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Congress's right to impose a federal tax.
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Many african americans moved from the rural South to the Northern cities. Seeking jobs and fleeing poverty.
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Voters elect Senators now not the state legislatures.
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This created FTC and investigates business practices.
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The Allies were Britain, France, Russia and the Central Powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, etc. Stalemate developed.
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Theodore Roosevelt encouraged Panama to break from Columbia. Panama succeeded and gave the U.S. rights to build a canal. In 1914, the U.S. finished the canal and it connected from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
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This outlaws price fixing and expands the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. This exempt unions from Sherman Act.
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the United States remained Neutral for three years and the public didn't support involvement and saw it as a European war.
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By Woodrow Wilson and his goal was to eliminate the causes of the war. His key ideas were self-determination, freedom of the sea, mandate system, and the league of nations.
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This banned alcohol use and many brooke that law such as, bootleggers which were alcohol smugglers and speakeasies which were secret bars.
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This was the punishment of Germany. Mandates and national boundaries were redrawn, the league of nation, etc.
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Explosion of black intellectual and cultural life
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Women gain the right to vote
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All women gain the right to vote
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Tennessee teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution after it was banned to be taught. The trial sparked a national debate over the subject of evolution.
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The 31st president of the United States during the Great Depression. People blamed him for it.
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A time of severe economic harship in the U.S.
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This is the day that the Stock Market crashed.
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The New Deal was FDR's program to deal with the Depression.
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The 32nd president of the United States and beat Hoover in the second election.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. It insures bank deposits and regulates banks.
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The Collateralized Loan Obligation and it pooled together a bunch of large business loans.
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A horrible drought on the Great Plains.
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The Wagner Act protected workers rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
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This was the biggest New Deal program and it provides safeguards for workers such as disability and unemploymeny compensation and old-age pensions.
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This set maximum working hours and also minimum wages.
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Stalin and Hitler agree no to attack each other
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The final cause was that Germany invaded Poland and the result was that France and Britain finally declared war on Germany to stop expansion
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Drafted 10 million men in to the military
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They turned on the Soviet union and invaded them.
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Japan attacks Hawaii and the target was the U.S.'s naval base. The U.S's pacific fleet was crushed and this was known as the "date that will live in infamy" by FDR. Thousands die
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After Pearl Harbor, at FDR's request, war was declared. Germany joins Japan to figh\gainst the U.S.
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The U.S. Navy beat and larger Japanese force on Midway Island and that ended the threat to Hawaii
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U.S. invasion of the beaches in Normandy.
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German counteroffensive. The allies recovered
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The Supreme Court allowed internment
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The uneasy peace after WWII, marked by a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, lasting from 1945-1991
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Germany was divided into East and West Germany. The eastern side became communist and remained under Soviet domination and the western side was temporarily under U.S., British and French occupation and it stayed self government and was democratic.
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The Allies from West and Soviet Union from East overrun Germany and Germany surrendered
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Bombed Japan instead of lose countless Americans in an invasion of Japan. There were countless deaths from the atomic bomb and Japan soon surrendered
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This was the second Atomic bomb that was dropped in Japan
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Postwar trials of Nazis for war crimes in the Holocause and there were many convictions. This emphasized individual responsibility regardless of orders and led to increased calls for a Jewish homeland.
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The Soviets blockaided West Berlin and the U.S. flew in supplies
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The Massive U.S. financial aid package to rebuilld Europe's economies and the goal was to prevent the spread of communism.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization was the defensive alliance among the U.S. & Western European countries and the main goal was to prevent Soviets from invading Western Europe.
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The Leader was Mao Zedong and the U.S. feared communist world denomination but China and the Soviets never became close.
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This divided Korea ino Communist North and Democratic South Korea. North Korea invades S.K. and the Chinese forced aided N.Korea and drove the U.S. back. Gen. MacArthur wanted to nuke them but Truman said no and the war ended in stalemate.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower won elections 1952 and 1956. He was involved with the making of Nuclear weapon such as the Hydrogen Bomb. Eisenhower's nuclear policy is Massive Retaliation.
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They gave atomic secrets to the Soviets and they were convicted and electrocuted.
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The Alliance among the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries
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The Soviets launches Sputnik into space and that begins the Space Race
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Francis Gary Powers was shot down while spying over the Soviet Union
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John F. Kennedy won the election in 1960.
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A wall between East and West Germany to keep East germans from fleeing to West Germany
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The Soviets stationed nuclear missles in Cuba and JFK demanded that they removed theirs and blockaded Cuba. The world was close to a Nuclear war
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Lee Harvey Oswald shot him in the head in Dallas, TX. This shocked America and shook their confidence and began a period of internal strife.
