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An investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives
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A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
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Genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States.
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Provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing
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The name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas
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Used to identify a massive increase in births following World War II
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American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
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One of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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A American initiative to aid Western Europe
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An intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries
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On June 1950 the Korean war began and the North pushed the South further down. On July the US had entered the war against North Korea. Together the US and South Korea pushed the North towards China. The war finally ended in July 1953.
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The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries.
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The economy overall grew by 37%
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A media stereotype prevalent
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34th U.S. President, also was a five-star general in the United States Army.
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He developed the first successful polio vaccines.
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American Businessman, Turned mcdonalds into a nationwide fast food chain.
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The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation.
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competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability
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A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency
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A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
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35th U.S. President, Assassination in November 1963.
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A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States
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International confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War
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A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
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Largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
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The US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam
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A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
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Remembered as the only president ever to resign from office.
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A conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia