U.S. HISTORY TABOO

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GREAT DEPRESSION: Cinderella man, bread lines, Herbert Hoover, Stock market, and skid row. Economic downfall of the 1930s thanks to Hoover. Idiot.

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WAR BONDS: WW II, government, money, war stamps, and inflation. War bonds helped with war funds during World War II.

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PANAMA CANAL: Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, employment increase, connection two oceans. Panama Canal helped with shipments and trading to be easier in South America.

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FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: equality, 1868, citizenship, bill of rights, constitution. All U.S. born are gained citizenship.

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HOLOCAUST: nazi, Jew, Poland, 1940s, and hitler. Worst genocide that hitler attempted to erase all Jews.

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WATERGATE SCANDAL: 1970s, Nixon, scandal, impeachment, and Vietnam war. Nixon trying to spy on democrats.

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COUNTERCULTURE: hippie, 1970s, rebellion, gay rights, and middle class. Rebellion from baby boomers to change the future in a positive way.

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MLK JR: racist, 1960s, segregation, 1968, civil rights movement. Impactful African American that helped develop the nation to where it is today.

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BLACK PANTHERS: African Americans, violence, riots, U.S. government, and civil rights movement. African Americans arm themselves against liberation struggles.

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RONALD REAGAN: reganomics, tax cuts, social spending, military spending, and new deal. New point of view on the economy after Vietnam war.

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IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS: 1979, shah, Jimmy Carter, Iran contra scandal, and Reagan. Iranian students held 52 students due to the U.S. allowing the shah to come to the U.S. for cancer treatment.

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NAVAJO CODE TALKERS: language, Indians, Reagan, WW II, and communication. Helped to speak in code during World War II.

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BERLIN AIRLIFT: Germany, Berlin Wall, east/west, Europe, airplane. U.S. delivered out to West Berlin without violence.

14

VIETNAMIZATION: Nixon, Vietnam war, south Vietnam, viet cong, north Vietnam. Pushing the south to fight their own war.

15

DETENTE: Nixon, Cold War, relaxation, peace, Soviet Union. Created and wanted peace between countries.

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HILARY CLINTON: free healthcare, woman, female politician, Bill Clinton, and government. First Lady of Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State for Barack Obama.

17

DAWES PLAN: money, Germany, U.S., war, 1924. U.S. loans money to Germany and then Germany pays Great Britain and France their war debt.

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BLACK MONEY: Stock market crash, day, Great Depression, income, inflation. A name given to the day where the stock market crashed.

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THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT: slavery, bill of rights, constitution, civil rights, Abraham Lincoln. To abolished slavery, ratified in 1865.

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GREAT MIGRATION: southern African Americans, migrants, farming, WW I, employment. The movement for southern African Americans to seek to the north for a better life.

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SAMUEL GOMPERS: labor union, cigars, AFL, workers, industrialism. Labor union leader and cigar maker.

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MAlCOM X: civil rights, African American, Malcolm little, Muslim, minister. Former civil rights activist that inspired the black power.

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GREAT SOCIETY: civil rights act of 1964, JFK assassination, social reform, bills, acts. A wave of acts passed after the JFK assassination, ran by Johnson.

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SQUARE DEAL: Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Sherman antitrust act, labor, corporations. Act that went against the monopolies to play an equal place into businesses.

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HERBERT HOOVER: Hooverville, mining, the Great Depression, hooverdam, war. 31st president that ran through World War I and caused the stock market crash and the Great Depression.

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MCCARTHYISM: senator John McCarthy, Eastern Europe, communism, conviction, assumption. The idea of hunting down any American that associated with the idea of communism.

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BAY OF PIGS: Castro, CIA, invasion, Cuba, 1960s. Attempt of invasion to Cuba by Cuban Americans that escaped from Castro's power.

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NEW RIGHT: roe vs. wade, religious, leaders, government, global market. Various parties or groups agreement on equality such as abortion.

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SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS: theory, income, tax, reduction, trade. Economic's ability to maintain goods to simulate economic growth.

30

GI BILL OF 1945: World War II, veterans, military, money, benefits. Helped WW II veterans with financial stability.

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POPULIST PARTY: Populism, civil war, economy, depression, agriculture. A shift in farming to industrial labor.

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JOHN ROCKEFELLER: oil, money, industrial revolution, philanthropy, impact. Most wealthiest men during the industrial revolution in oil refinery.

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D-DAY: World War II, battle of Normandy, Europe, operation overlord, allies. U.S, Great Britain, and Canada goes on a mass invasion into stopping the Germans.

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ISLAND HOPPING: Island, military, pacific, war, MacArthur. Strategy to secure military grounds around the pacific ran by MacArthur and Chester Nimitz.

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HOMESTEAD ACT: Abraham Lincoln, land grant, civil war, citizen, government. Granted 160 acres of land , government granted.