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1.
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Name given to a truce, or agreement to end an armed conflict?
2.
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Which political philosophy is based on extreme nationalism, racism, and military expansion?
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Name given to a person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare?
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This term refers to a government's spending of more money than it receives in revenue?
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A person who opposed the Vietnam War and believed that the United States should withdraw from it was called ______?
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This term refers to a measure based on the prices of the stocks of 30 large companies, widely used as a barometer on the stock market's health
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Name given to a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true?
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Name the system which was the protection of merchant ships from U-boat attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by war ships
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This term refers to the use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers?
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This term refers to an involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit?
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This term refers to a devotion to the interests and culture of one's own nation?
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Name given to the U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II?
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This term refers to racial separation established by practice and custom
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Name given to the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target?
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This term refers to the opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries
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Name given to the South Vietnamese communist who, with North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of South Vietnam?
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Name the 1935 law enacted to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities and families with dependent children?
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This term refers to the policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means?
19.
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Which Japanese city was the first to be bombed by an atomic bomb?
20.
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Name given to Secretary of State Albert B. Fall's secret leasing of oil-rich land to private companies in return for money and land?
21.
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This term refers to the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control?
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Name given to a sudden, massive attack with combined air and ground forces, intended to achieve a quick victory.
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Name given to President Roosevelt's program that focused on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform?'
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This term refers to the granting of concessions to a hostile power to keep the peace?
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Name given to the line that divides North and South Korea?
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Name the group that was appointed by President Johnson to study the causes of urban violence and that recommended the elimination of de facto segregation in American society
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Name the 1954 Landmark Supreme Court case that ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional?
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The characteristic of a political system in which the government exercises complete control over its citizens is called?
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The compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a war was called ______?
30.
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Name the law that banned discrimination in housing.
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A person who supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and believed the United States should use increased military force to win it was called a ____?
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What is the name given to October 29, 1929 when stock prices fell sharply?
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Name given to a biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions?
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This term refers to a name given by President Richard Nixon to the moderate, mainstream Americans who quietly supported his Vietnam policies?
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The giving of money or food by the government directly to needy people is called?
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Name given to one of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation?
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Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation
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Name given to a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a strong power?
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Name the 1935 law enacted to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities and families with dependent children?
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Name given to the maintenance of a price at a certain level through government intervention?
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Name the organization formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means?
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Name given to a political philosophy that advocates a strong centralized government headed by a powerful dictator?
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Name given to a flowering of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920's?
44.
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President Johnson signed this piece of legislation that prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender?
45.
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Name the piece of legislation that made it easier for African Americans to register by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level?
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Name the law enacted in 1935 to protects workers' rights after the Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional?
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Separate restrooms for Blacks and Whites is an example of which of the following?
48.
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Opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries is called
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Name given to a policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged?
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This term refers to a phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe?