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What other than artillery killed millions of soldiers during WW1?
Germany angered the rest of the world by invading what country?
En quelle année Christophe Colomb découvre un nouveau territoire qui est l'Amérique ?
Quelles sont les deux hommes qui on participés à la controverse de Valladolid en Espagne en 1550-1551 ?
Comment appelle-on la flotte immense qui protège la flotte Royale ?
Quand le traité de Tordesillas a été décidé ?
SDS leader Tom Hayden manifesto that rejected the establishment and what he claimed was a system of power rooted in possession, privilege, racism, or circumstance.
Daniel Elsberg released top secret documents revealing U.S. dealings in Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War that reinvigorated the waning anti-war movement.
Students for a Democratic Society was a radical anti-war organization during the late 1960's and early 1970's responsible for leading Anti-War protests and campus violence.
1960's-1970's anti-establishment youth movement that opposed the Vietnam War, believed in the use of mind expanding drugs and extreme liberalism.
4 students killed on campus during SDS led anti-establishment/anti-war protests in the 1970s
Committee to Re-Elect the President. They were the overzealous supporters of Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.
A break in by Nixon staff members into the Democratic National Convention Headquarters housed in the hotel. It resulted in cover-ups, obstruction and the eventual resignation of Nixon
Part of the Nixon Doctrine and began the Johnson Administration. It was the policy of turning the war in Vietnam to the ARVN (Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam).
In the Vietnam War, the supply route was used by the communist forces of Vietnam to ferry war supplies through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam.
The mainstream of middle American society that supported the U.S. domestic policy and foreign policy in the late 1960's and early 1970's and opposed the loud student/anti-war types and protestors in general with slogans such as "America Love it or Leave it"
Militant organization dedicated to protect African Americans from police violence. Founded in Oakland, CA by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton had a radical agenda and the belief in armed self-defense and armed clashes with the police.
Closest USSR and USA ever came to starting WWIII. Kennedy objected to the Soviet medium range missiles - he blockaded Cuba and threatened invasion.
UFW founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower Mexican American migrant workers who faced discrimination and exploitative working conditions.
Lyndon Johnson's program of bringing economic, social and political progress to the U.S. from 1965-1969 - So-called "war on poverty".