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History final
Telstar :name of communications satellites. The first Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962.
Taliban:sought to establish an Islamic government through law and order alongside a strict interpretation of Sharia law with the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence and the religious edicts of Mullah Omar, upon the entire land of Afghanistan.
Military Reform Movement: Soul searching for the military establishment at end of the Vietnam War in the US military.
Al-Queda: series of attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001.
Neo-Conservatives or Necons: American political philosophy that opposes big government approaches to domestic issues favors an interventionist and aggressive foreign policy; most neoconservatives advocated American intervention in iraq in 2003.
Martin Luther King Jr.:A leader in the Montgomery bus protest.became the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) when it was founded in 1957.
Saddam Hussein: socialist president of the Iraqi Republic beginning in 1979 and strongman of the ruling Ba'th regime beginning in 1968, was known for his political shrewdness and ability to survive conflicts.
Rosa Parks:American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
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Stokely Carmichel: "militant" civil rights activist stood at the forefront of the "Black Power" movement. Fame by popularizing the phrase "Black Power" and was one of the most powerful and influential leaders in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Hector P. Garcia: Mexican American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.
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Philadelphia Plan:federal affirmative action program established in 1967 to racially integrate the building construction trade unions.
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Operation Eduring Freedom: the official name used by the U.S. government for the Global War on Terrorism. On October 7, 2001, in response to the September 11 attacks.
Operation Iraqi Freedom: authorized when Iraq was found to be in breach of U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1441 “prohibits stockpiling and importing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).” Iraqi forces were overwhelmed quickly and Baghdad fell a mere five weeks after the invasion began.
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The Great Society: Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic program, was built around the phrase “The Great Society.” He had used this expression from time to time, but he had not emphasized it until he gave a speech at the University of Michigan on 22 May 1964.
Guam (Nixon) Doctrine : The policy stated that the United States would continue to help Asian nations combat Communism but would no longer commit U.S. troops to land wars in Asia.
Wernher Von Braun leader of the American rocket team designed rockets for his native country of Germany during World War II.
Tet Offiensive (1968): February 1968 the Vietcong launched the Tet Offensive against South Vietnamese cities and US forces.
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Jane Jacobs: author, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of city-dwellers.
Rachel Carson:an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s.
Betty Friedan:sauthor, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of city-dwellers.
Operation Eagle Claw United States Armed Forces operation ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to end the Iran hostage crisis by rescuing 52 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran on 24 April 1980.
Ayatollhah Khomeini: declared an Islamic republic and was appointed Iran's political and religious leader for life.
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Watergate: an illegal wiretap and attempted burglary that had occurred during the presidential campaign on 17 June 1972, at the national headquarters of the Democratic Party in the Watergate building complex in Washington, D.C.
*Walter C.Teagle:: president of Standard Oil (of NJ) immediately reacted to these restrictions by organizing threatened producers’ embargo of sales to Japan.
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USS Panay Incident (1937): On 14 December 1937 Japanese bombers involved in operations against Chinese forces accidently bomb the gunboat USS Panay and three Standard Oil tankers, the Mei Hsia, Mei Ping, and Mei Anon Yangtze River at Nanking.
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Cambrige Spy Ring: spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and was active from the 1930s until at least into the early 1950s
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Yalta Confrence (1945): 4 to 11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin to discuss the split of territory into western and Soviet spheres of influence in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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Berlin Airlift (1949): Angered by the success of American policy in Western Europe, the USSR blocked land and water routes leading to the western sectors of Berlin in June 1948.
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Operation Chomite Inchon Landing (1950): South Korea's west coast, about 25 miles west of Seoul, cutting the North Korean Army in half. In a coordinated move, UN forces broke out of the Pusan perimeter.
Secret Speech (1956): Khrushchev made a secret speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956.
*Cuban Missile Crisis :: confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
USS Quincy Meeting (1945): President Franklin Roosevelt met with Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz al-Saud on 14 February 1945 on the USS Quincy as Roosevelt was returning from the Yalta Conference with Stalin.