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Levittowns

Who: William Levitt, an American real estate developer

What: Low-cost, mass-produced developments of suburban tract housing built by William Levitt after World War II on Long Island in New York and elsewhere

When: after world war II (late 1940s)

Where: on Long Island in New York

Why: these mass-produced developments created affordable suburban housing that encouraged white flight(migrating out of the cities to these suburban areas) this transformed the demographic of cities and then also contributed to the baby boom as it became affordable to start families

The Feminine Mystique

Who: Betty Friedan (author of the book)

What: a book that sparked the second-wave of feminism in the U.S

When: 1960s

Where: united states

Why: this book focused on college educated women, arguing that they would find fulfillment by engaging in paid employment outside the home. it sparked the second wave of feminism, breaking the image of post word war II women finding fulfillment and promoted workplace equality

• shift from political equality (voting rights) to social and economic equality

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Interstate Highway System

Who: issued by Dwight D Eisenhower through the Federal-Aid Highway Act

What: national network of interstate superhighways

When: construction began in the late 1950s

Where: across the United states

Why: enabled the rapid movement of military convoys and the evacuation of cities after a nuclear attack. it also promoted economic growth as it allowed the families that migrated to the suburbs transport back and fourth as well as transport goods

Henry Kissinger

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Bay of Pigs

Who: United states, Cuba

What: U.S mission in which the CIA, hoping to inspire a revolt against Fidel Castro, sent 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade their homeland. The mission was a spectacular failure

When: April 17, 1961

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John Foster Dulles

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Soft Power

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Shoah

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Afghanistan

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Battle of Britian

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Silent Majority

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Hiroo Onoda

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Milton Friedman

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Bretton Woods

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Hannah Arendt

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Meiji Restoration

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Delores Huerta

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Proxy wars

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Sun Belt

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Finance Capitolism

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A. Philip Randolph

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Robert McNamara

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National Review

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GI Bill

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Stonewall

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John Maynard Keynes

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Kent State

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Battle of the Coral Sea

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Neville Chamberlain

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Bracero Program

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Nanjing

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Frances Perkins

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Farm Crisis

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Pauli Murray

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