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Abstract Painting 5
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Plea bargains are negotiated agreements in criminal cases in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty in return for the state’s agreement to reduce the severity of the criminal charge or prison sentence the defendant is facing. Because people would rather settle cases through negotiated agreements between the parties rather than go to court and face harsher punishment.
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Lodz
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a jewish ghetto in warsaw, NOT a concentration camp
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Dachau
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a concentration camp during WWII
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Auschwitz
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liberated by the soviet army
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Washington DC and the Summer of 1963
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A massive march organized by African American Civil Rights leaders, and MLK gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" to 200,000 black and white Americans
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The Gulf of Tonkin
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In early August, 1964, President Johnson used a murky set of events in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of North Vietnam to launch full-scale war on Vietnam.”, Johnson and Secretary of Defense, McNamara, informed the American people that an attack was carried out on American destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boat, According to many, the incident was a fake; the government lied to the American public, In fact, the CIA had secretly attacked the North Vietnamese coastal installations, but not in international waters..on vietnamese waters
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Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
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SCLC, CORE, and SNCC were involved in it, and bob moses helped play a rolde in organizing it
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For full employment after the War, register to vote
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Represented White and African American Welder Welder bore too close a resemblance to FDR, Image of solidarity between black and white workers was considered too politically radical at the time
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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court case that established separate but equal had no standing, and also that schools must desegregate with all deliberate speed
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Rosa Parks
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A women arrested for not obeying the Montgomery Law providing for segregation on city buses.
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The army must act
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calls on the army to act because the colored troops at fort bragg are being mistreated and just being considered negroes and not soldiers.
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Sncc
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Bob Moses was associated with this group, student nonviolent coordinating committee, also involved in freedom summer
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Executive order 9066 9835
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9066 is An order which gave the army power to arrest Japanese Americans, An order which concentrated many Japanese Americans in camps, and An order which Zinn argues, "came close to duplicating the policies of Fascism" 9835sometimes known as The Loyalty Order,
was designed to root out communist |
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Anne Moody
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The collapse of CORE, and the bombing of a church made her seek spiritual comfort
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Malcom X
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was a "black militant" was a man who believed in black separation in order to achieve true black independence.
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Nguyen Hieu
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his entire family was murdered by US soldiers
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Oran Henderson
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reports an investigation on the lai massacre
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The Owi
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was designed to galvanize working class patriotism and discourage anti-nationalist radicalism. it was a propaganda organization
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How many atom bombs were dropped on Japan in August of 1945?
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2 in hiroshima and nagasaki
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Dr. Martin luther king
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He was a powerful African American orator,He was a powerful African American minister who stressed and practiced love and non-violence as a means of protest against racism
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Pinkwille
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refers to a vietcong stonghold, and was ordered destroyed and that its inhabitants were, " slaughtered like so many sheep.according to ridenhour
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The march of 1963
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african americans wanted equal opportunity and better job opportunity so they had a march on washington in the summer of 1963
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Iron man comic
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US propoganda. endoreced national cold war consensus against a monolithic communist menace embodied by such a typical such stereotypical red villains. reflected the naive assumptions and expectations that many had about vietnam.iron mans victory over the wong chu is a triumph of western technology of communist barbarism and american valor over asian treachery.
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American gothic
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it reflects how the Midwestern rural environment was shaped by hard working settlers, It reinforces traditional gender roles, It symbolizes masculine work and strength
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Levittown
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Marketed inexpensive housing to the families of war veterans; racism and segregation found its way, even here, used assembly line. Company associated integration w/ communism, Legally barred African Americans from buying property and living in Levittown until 1960
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free fire zones
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zones in which all people who resided within were considered enemies
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Dorothea lange's photograph entitled the southern pacific railroad
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underscored the rootless plight of contemporary agricultural labor. and emphasizes this willful blindness toward the hardships of the unemployed and working poor.
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The IMF and GATT
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IMF= international monetary fund, gatt= general agreement on tarriffs and trade, served to restructure and monitor the diverse local, regional, and national economies of the world by integrating them into a global capitalistic market
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Stuart davis, chairman of the congress believed that _____ was an
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abstract, modernist art
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What did the US do about Hitler's policies of execution?
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nothing, the US joined england and france in appeasing hitler throughout the 30's and they were hesitant to criticize publicly hitlers anti-semitic policies
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Which army liberated auschwitz?
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soviet
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Midwestern congressman george dondero
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reported to the US house of representatives that jackson pollock, duchamp, and other well known artists were dangerous subversives and part of a larger communist conspiracy.
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The artist clement greenberg
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defended congressional tactics in hunting down communists and communist sympathizers
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What did vietcong do to gain further support from the south vietnamese peasant population?
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they distributed land to peasants, and eliminated landlord domination, and distributed land to those who chose to cooperate
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The film freedom on my mind
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looks at the grass roots effort to involve African Americans, in Mississippi, in the "Democratic Process"
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Hoppers nighthawks
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Represents desolate city street corner, Expressed the Nation’s dark mood, Stimulates feelings and anxiety over city crime, Sense of Alienated urban culture
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According to the art text, during the great depression, what aggrivated the national economic crisis in the US?
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dust storms, floods, and a variety of national disasters
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The infinity mirror
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represents a protest against oppressive patriarchic morals of the artists family, and an act of feminist protest
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Welcome home
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Satirized the government alliance between business and military leaders, Social commentary, scathingly representing a lavish, triumphant banquet of profiteering businessmen
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The artist franz cline
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drew upon Americas urban industrial landscape to create rough calligraphic works
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civl rights workers james chaney, andrew goodman, and micheal schwerner
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were arrested in mississippi then released late at night, then beated with chains and shot to death
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HUAC
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house of unamerican activities committee
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The idlewind airport
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was renamed the JFK airport, employed vitalistic biomorphic sculptural shapes
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Diem
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this regime was so unpopular because it the diem was catholic and the people wee buddhists, and diem was too close with the wealthy landlords
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Ridenhour
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put together a report on what happened ay my lai massacre, everything he talks of is just hear say
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The fleets in
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caused moral uproar because it showed drunken american sailors in sexual negotiation with prostitutes and also shows homoerotic behavior
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The news reports, on the incedents urrounding and involving freedom goodman
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see three civil rights workers
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