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Chapter 38 American Pageant

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Chapter 38 The presidency of Lyndon Johnson was successful because despite the dealings with Vietnam, he was able to get legislation passed, like voting rights, civil rights, and ultimately his Great Society plans. He was able to enormously improve the country with many domestic improvements, like Medicare for the poor, elderly, and women.

In The Lake Of The Woods Reading Guide

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Brandon Scherr April 1, 2014 Character List & Chapter Summaries -Mrs. Brandt ? Girl Scout troupe leader -Paul Meadlo ? Soldier in Vietnam who shot a lot of innocent women and children -Lawrence Ehlers ? The gym teacher who told Wade about his father?s death -Art Lux ? The County sheriff in the investigation -Roy Wood ? A soldier who didn?t want to kill innocent people in Vietnam -William Calley ? A soldier being questioned in court about evacuating people with a hand grenade. -Mrs. Myrtle Meadlow ? Mother of Paul Medlow -Colonel William V. Wilson ? U.S Army Investigator -Ronald Grzesik ? Soldier in Vietnam. -Ronald Haeberle ? Soldier in Vietnam. -Richard Pendleton ? Soldier in Vietnam. -Charles Hall ? Soldier in Vietnam. -Leonard Gonzalez ? Soldier in Vietnam.

1960 vocabulary

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1960-present 372. Election of 1960: Kennedy vs. Nixon, Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous) 373. President John F. Kennedy: second youngest president, entered?presidency as tensions of the Cold War increased; unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc; tax cuts (economic stimulation); reluctantly gets involved in civil rights; emphasizes Space Race (man on the moon) 374. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring: effects of pesticides on the environment; changed way Americans viewed their impact on nature 375. Berlin Wall: due to threat of nuclear war, Soviets erected wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin (end exodus of intellect to west); symbol of communist denial of freedom

AP US History Ch 40 The American Pageant Test Study Guide

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AP US History Ch 40 The American Pageant Test Study Guide Consider the 5 Ws when thinking about history: Who, What, When, Where, & Why/How is it important? Ch 40 The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980 (Ch 40 in the 12th edition is Ch 39 in the 13th edition) One reason for the end of the postwar economic boom in the 1970s was ? a drastic decline in worker productivity (possibly partially result of shifting economy to service sector) By the early 1970s, the post-WWII economic boom had crested as a result of ? a decline in competitive advantage of Am business, the Vietnam War, a slump in productivity, economic recovery of Japan and (West) Germany, What about a large tax increase?

AP World History CHAPTER 34-36

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? Chapter 34-36 Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-Building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim, End of Cold War, Globalization I.Introduction i. Japan the anomaly in non-Western societies a. Fought imperialism & high level of industrialization b. Imitation of Western rivals - imperialist tendencies ii. Korea has also emerged as leading industrial center iii. China and Vietnam resemble other emerging nations a. Suffered from exploitive terms of exchange w/ West b. Had to deal with underdevelopment, overpopulation c. And..poverty and environmental degradation d. Sound familiar? e. But...they also saw collapse of 1000 year civilization iv. Confucian system destroyed in Vietnam and China a. External aggression + internal upheaval

Chapter 25 Notes

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Confrontation and D?tente, 1955-1975121. On and off periods of relaxed tensions? Dangerous confrontations began to mount? Stalin's successors recognized a need for cooperation with other countries? Korean War ended? Iron curtain still existed? Austria became independent and neutral? 1955, Cold War stabilized? Recognized necessity of peaceful coexistence? Eisenhower continued to build up arms and continued containment? Both recognized need for coexistence ? Khrushchev vowed to crush capitalism? East Berliners were fleeing? Demanded the US pull out, rejected? Tension mounted because of Berlin? Prevented Britain, France and Israel from taking action in Egypt? Prevented Russian intervention? Conflict in Suez Canal? Capable of destroying cities?

Chapter 29

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Chapter 29 (50-88) In 1964 Students went to Chicago to help a poor community called Uptown. The Students for a Democratic Society was formed (1960) and then they turned against the president's foreign policy and war. It was the leading student organization of the New Left. The Vietnam war had its roots in the Truman Doctrine. When the communist forces defeated French Vietnam emerged as a major zone of cold war contention. Lyndon Johnson's decision to engage in Vietnam. Tonkin Gulf Resolution was the request to congress from Johnson in response to the North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks in which he sought authorization for all necessary measures to protect the Us forces and stop further aggression. The attacks were just a pretext they wanted to bomb anyways.

Everything you will need to know about Vietnam and then some

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6 Introduction to the Class Monday, January 31, 2011 11:16 AM Vietnam is the longest war that the US got involved in. We have gotten US supplies in Vietnam since 1955. The reason why 1955 is so important is because l-955 is the year when the US decides to take over what the French were unable to do. The Thing about Vietnam is it's a country that is defined by the idea that other: people have conquered it . It spent about half of it's known existence under someone's control by either the Chinese or the French. What we have to understand about The Vietnamese people is that they don't want to be controlled by some outsider that they really wanted control themselves. And in 1955, We tried to put our control
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