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The war in Vietnam was oppose because the enemy was unclear at times, it was a civil war in
Vietnam, and it was the first war where the public was able to see what was happening in war.
2. The Cold War came to an end because the Soviet Union had a decreasing economy because of
an expensive arms race and failed war in Afghanistan.
3. The Gulf War began when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
4. Some results of the Cold War were the liberation of Kuwait and a UN coalition victory.
5. HIV/AIDS was the main health issue of the 1980s.
6. Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice.
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8. SDI stands for Strategic Defense Initiative, a missile defense system that would shot laser
beams at missiles that were threatening the US, proposed by Reagan.
9. Reagan increased spending on defense and the military.
10. The Iran hostage situation involved Iran and 52 US citizen hostages.
11. The Watergate scandal affected the US by not allowing people the trust of government of
president like they used to.
12. Gerald Ford was the first president not to be elected into office for president of vice president.
13. Pay equity for women meant they would get paid the same amount of money for a man working
the same job.
14. Reagan waged war against drugs, the Iran-Contra Affair, and the economy.
15. Bush's popularity declined after the Gulf War because there was an economic recession and
many believed he ended the Gulf War to early and many Iraqis escaped.
16. Both the Korean and the Persian Gulf War were started when one country suddenly invaded
another country.
17. Vietnamization was a policy of the Nixon administration to train, equip and expand the South
Vietnamese soldiers.
18. The Gulf of Tonkin gave the president the power to use whatever force necessary to protect our
interests in their country.
19. Tet Offensive was the turning point in the Vietnam War when the North Vietnamese and the
Viet Cong launched major attacks on South Vietnam.
20. The War Powers Act made the president periodically inform congress of the status of a war that
the US Armed Forces are involved in.
21. The Counterculture Movement began with the Hippies.
22. In the1970s the US was in a recession, and in the 1980s the recession worsened but by 1983 we
got out of the recession.
23. Watergate said that the government could not be trusted since so many government people were
tied into the scandal.
24. At Kent State University, students were rallying and guards tried to break up the rally, when
they couldn't they began to fire into the air or at the ground. Some of the guards shot directly
into the crowd of student killing some of them.
25. Johnson was not reelected because the US involvement in the Vietnam War caused his
popularity to decline.
26. The Pentagon Papers were top secret history of the US political-military involvement in
Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
27. The Domino Theory is the theory that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding
countries would also fall.
28. Viet Cong was a North Vietnamese guerrilla group established at the end of the 1960s.
29. Viet Minh was a North Vietnamese military group established by Ho Chi Minh while living in
China on the Korea border.
30. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have A Dream” speech was about the desegregation of blacks in the
 United States.
31. Brown v Board was the court hearing on schools being segregated even though they were
supposed to be desegregated.
32. The Black Panthers believed in self-sufficiency for African American communities, as well as
full employment and decent housing.
33. MLK was a man of peace and fought for blacks' rights with peace, Malcolm X fought for the
rights through violence.
34. Bay of Pigs was the day we invaded Cuba to assassinate Castro but we failed.
35. The Berlin Wall was built to separate East and West Berlin so the citizens of the communist side
could not flee to the West.
36. Cuban Missile Crisis was Cuba was backed by the soviets and their missiles and America was
their target.
37. The Warren Commission , regarding to the JFK assassination, originally found Oswald as the
only shooter, but later re-investigated and found he was part of a conspiracy and at least two
people fired.
38. The Korean War caused no change in what started the war.
39. The Marshall Plan was a program under which the US supplied economic aid to European
nations to help rebuild them after WWII.
40. Containment is the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influences.
41. Appeasement is the granting of of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace.
42. Lend-Lease Act was the act that allowed the US to lend or lease weapons and other supplies
without immediate payment to countries fighting the allied powers.
43. The Manhattan Project was the secret development of the atomic bomb by scientists across the
US.
44. The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern
European satellites.
45. Rosie the Riveter is a culture icon of the US who represented the women that took the jobs of
their husbands while they fought in WWII.
46. Selective Service Act was the United States' first prewar drafting system before joining WWII.
47. The USS Arizona was a battleship that was attacked in Pearl Harbor and was sunk.
48. Operation Overlord/ D-day was the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
49. Isolationism is the policy of containing one's own country from the rest of the world.
50. Pearl Harbor was the naval base in Hawaii that was attack December 7, 1941.
51. Eisenhower was a five star general in the US army and the 34th president of the US.
52. Island hopping was the US military technique that had them attack island to island before
reaching Japan.
53. Genocide is the mass killing a certain group based on skin color, religion, etc.
54. The main objective the Japanese had when they attacked Pearl Harbor was to stop possible
interference with Japan's plans.
55. The Social Security Act of 1935 was the promise of financial aid to everyone who qualifies for
it.
56. FDR's first 100 hundred where his first 100 days in office in which is plan for fixing the
economy began.
57. Deficit spending is when a country spends more money then it makes.
58. The Security Exchange Commission is a U.S. government agency that supervises the exchange
of securities so as to protect investors against malpractice
59. The FDIC is a program created by the government to insure our deposits in case of bank failure.
60. Fireside Chats were “meetings” that FDR had while he hosted a radio show and talked about
problem or concerns with the American public.
61. Hoovervilles were really poor areas in and around the cities that showed how bad the economy
became when Hoover went into office.
62. Speakeasies were secret areas for buying and selling alcohol during prohibition.
63. Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian anarchists put on trail and found guilty of the robbery and
murder of two men during the Red Scare.
64. Farmers suffered in the 1920s because they over produced their products and their values
decreased.
65. The Dust Bowl was a period of time of sever dust storms destroying the US economy and
agriculture.
66. The Bonus Army was a group of Vets and their families protesting in Washington DC because
they did not get paid the promised bonus for fighting in the war.
67. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement for African American artists, writers, and
musicians.
68. Scopes Monkey Trial was a trail were a substitute teacher was arrested and put on trail for teach
evolution instead of God created us all. Science instead of religion.
69. The US changed due to prohibition by crime raising since everyone just went behind the law
and drank even more than when alcohol was legal.
70. Buying stock on margin is buying stocks with money someone borrows from their banks.