1.26-1.28 Flashcards
Series of scandals that resulted in President Richard Nixon’s resignation in August 1974 amid calls for his impeachment. The episode sprang from a failed burglary attempt at the democratic party headquarters in Washington’s hotel during the 1972 election.
Watergate
A set of papers that detailed US political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967
Pentagon Papers
a term that came into wide use with journalism, political and public discourse in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, it was most frequently used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration’s statements and policies on the Vietnam War.
Credibility Gap
a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Vietnam War
The convention was among the most tense and confrontational political conventions ever in American history, marked by fierce debate and protest over the Vietnam peace talks and controversy over the heavy-handed police tactics of the convention’s host, Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago.
1968 Democratic Convention
A social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation’s decision to start or carry on an armed conflict. In this case it was advocating against the Vietnam war.
Anti War movement
Program designed to redress historic racial and gender imbalances in jobs and education. The term grew from an executive order issued by Lydon B. Johnson in 1965 mandating that projects paid with federal funds take concerted action against discrimination based on race in their hiring practices. In the late 1960s, President Nixon’s Philadelphia Plan changed the meaning of ________ to require attention to certain groups, rather than protect individuals against discrimination.
Affirmative Action
an American attorney, conservative activist, and anti-feminist who was nationally prominent in conservatism.
Phyllis Schlafly
a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protected a right to have an abortion.
Roe v Wade 1973
A group that believed that all Americans were moral and would make the same choices as them. (Conservative choices). By extension it implied that anyone who disagreed was immoral and un-American
Moral Majority
The Rise of the ______ refers to the significant economic and demographic growth experienced in the southern and southwestern regions of the United States from the mid-20th century onward.
Sun Belt
the nations primary area of the steel industries, which were mainly in the north east and Midwest.
Rust Belt
The founder of conservatism.
Barry goldwater
the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement,
Ronald Reagan
Jerry Falwell
