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What is Communism?
state controlled all property and economic activity
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What happened to the economy right after WWII?
it declined
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How did the first televised debate impact Kennedy's campaign?
It helped his campaign.
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What is brinkmanship?
The willingness of the United States, under President Eisenhower, to go to the edge of all-out war
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Who was the general in command of the UN forces during the Korean War?

General MacArthur 

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What is containment?
taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries
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The majority of homes were built here in the 1950s.
Suburbs
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What is the military strategy of "flexible response?"
Kennedy increased defense spending in order to boost conventional military forces—nonnuclear forces such as troops, ships, and artillery.
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This was the failed invasion of Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs
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The Warren Commission determined this person killed JFK.
Lee Harvey Oswald
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What was the result of the Korean War
Korea was still divided
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What is a franchise?
is a company that offers similar products or services in many locations. (Franchise is also used to refer to the right, sold to an individual, to do business using the parent company’s name and the system that the parent company developed.
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What did the Elementary and Secondary Education Act do? (Great Society)
provided more than $1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools purchase textbooks and new library materials. This was the first major federal aid package for education in the nation’s history.
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What is planned obsolescence?
manufacturers purposely designed products to become obsolete—that is, to wear out or become outdated—in a short period of time
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What did Medicare do?
provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost every American age 65 or older.
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What did the Marshall plan do?
The US provided aid to European nations to help them recover from WWII (and not turn to communism).
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What is the "Checkers" speech?
Nixon's speech denying corruption. Saved his campaign. Use of a new medium for politics.
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How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved?
The U.S. removed their missiles from Turkey and the U.S.S.R removed their missiles from Cuba.
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What are some of the programs created during Johnson's Great Society program?
Medicare, Medicaid, Civil Rights Act, Immigration Act of 1965...
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This broke the Soviet blockade of Berlin.

The Berlin Airlift

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This person claimed that there was communists in the government.
Joseph McCarthy
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What is the termination policy?
eliminated federal economic support, discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans.
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What are some of Kennedy's New Frontier programs?
NASA, the Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress...
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What was the Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona?
it ruled that all suspects must be read their rights before questioning
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What is one criticism of the Great Society? 

Cost, size of the government, doesn't do enough....