Unit 13 Vocabulary

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One of America's greatest military commanders and the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. 

During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A network of U.S. highways connecting the 48 contiguous states and most of the cities with populations above 50,000, begun in the 1950s and estimated to carry about a fifth of the nation's traffic.

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Interstate Highway System

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37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, became the first American president to resign from office.

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Richard Nixon

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A massive oil spill that occurred on March 24, 1989, in Prince William Sound, an inlet in the Gulf of Alaska, Alaska, U.S.

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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

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Accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union, the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation.

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Chernobyl Disaster

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An agency of the U.S. government that protects the environment by setting and enforcing national pollution-control standards.

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EPA

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Law passed during World War II that provided benefits to help veterans return to civilian life.

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G.I. Bill

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Appointed by President Johnson as secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to engineer the Great Society Program.

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John Gardner

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This man revolutionized home building with the creation of Levittowns by using a similar method as Henry Ford’s mass production but with homes making buying homes affordable for thousands of white middle-class Americans.

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William Levitt

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The 36th U.S. President responsible for passing numerous health and welfare legislations between 1963 and 1968 to fight the “War on Poverty”.

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Lyndon B. Johnson