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WTO (world trade organization)
avenue in which U.S attempts to reduce trade barriers through international organizations to increase the floe of U.S commerce -
Navajo Code Talker
United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native-American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages -
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The Great Depession
In October 1929 the stock market crashed, wiping out 40 percent of the paper values of common stock. After the stock market collapse, however, politicians and industry leaders continued to issue predictions for the nation's economy. But the Depression worsened confidence was gone and so their life savings. By 1933 the value of stock on the New York Stock Exchange was less than a fifth of what it had been at its peak in 1929. Longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrializ -
The Holocaust
The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
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The New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, plan to help fix the problems with the U.S. economy. The New Deal started programs that gave unemployed people jobs, helped raise the price of farmers. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created in response the this deal. The New Deal also changed the way businesses operated to help make sure people were paid more fairly. -
Entitlement Programs and Solvency
Entitlement programs first began during the Great Depression in the 1930's. One example of an entitlement program would be social security. -
Social Security & Social Security Administration (SSA)
FDR signs the Social Security Act guaranteeing pensions to those retiring at 65 with contributions from both employees and employers. Also provides financial aid to dependent children and blind people and establishes a system of unemployment insurance. -
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate. -
Flying tigers
was composed of pilots from the United States -
D-Day Invasion
Establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord -
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta. -
Potsdam Conference
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The Marshall Plan
Process where the U.S. resisted communism by extending financial aid to friendly European nations rebuilding after the destruction of World War 2 1948-1951 -
Berlin Airlift
The proccess of sending supplies to east berlin -
NATO
Military alliance of 1949 between North American and Western European nations that pledges each will come to the aid of each other if attacked by an outside enemy -
MLK
was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Black panthers
he Black Panther Party was a progressive political organization that stood in the vanguard of the most powerful movement for social change in America. -
Koren War
25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 World War II divided Korea into a Communist, northern half and an American-occupied southern half, divided at the 38th parallel. -
Hector P. Garcia
Hector Perez Garcia was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement" -
Building the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany -
6-Day War
June 5 - 10, 1967, The Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter what the Israelis saw as an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel. The Six-Day War was initiated by General Moshe Dayan, the Israeli’s -
Collapse of Soviet Union
Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism -
Bataan Death March
Challenging march through the high desert terrain of White Sands Missile Range, conducted in honor of the heroic service members who defended the Philippine Islands during Challenging march through the high desert terrain of White Sands Missile Range, conducted in honor of the heroic service members who defended the Philippine Islands during -
Battle Of MidWay
Fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war.
