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1950s and 1960s America

Teacher: Battrell
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The closest the world has ever came to nuclear war
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This policy meant keeping communism within its current borders through the use of diplomatic, economic and military actions
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Stated that if one country were to fall to communism, then the neighboring countries were more likely to fall as well (believed particularly true of SE Asia.)
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phenomenon of fear that ruined people's lives because they were accused of being Communists
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While he was president he tried twice unsuccessfully to get rid of Fidel Castro in Cuba
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Helped pass the Interstate Highway Act that created our network of highways across America
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Important centers of student political activism in the 1960s
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Conference where Stalin promised to allow free elections in those Eastern European nations that he would be overseeing reconstruction in after the war
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An example of how the counterculture experimented with alternative lifestyles or ways of living
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The first mass produced suburb in NY is an example of the 1950s preference for conformity
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This Soviet leader decided to blockade Berlin after the three western zones of Germany were united
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Policy that advocated bluffing your adversary into believing that you were absolutely willing to go to nuclear war if a situation arose that warranted it
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Financial support offered to nations in an effort to
help them resist the outside influence of communism
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Arrested for leaking nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union
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Winston Churchill described the border between communist eastern and democratic western Europe as being an...
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As a result of the G.I. Bill, many returning solders from WWII attended collage and took jobs considered to be