APUSH CH 29/30 JEOPARDY Flashcards
Program to provide healthcare for the poor and elderly
medicare
Johnson’s overarching plan to lift the poor out of poverty
great society
Kenney’s term for building conventional and special forces capacity, in addition to nuclear weapons
flexible response
Most controversial part of the OEO, it ask and allowed poor people to plan and run the anti-poverty programs
community action
hoping to avoid another Cuba, in 1965 LBJ invaded this nation, restoring a dictator friendly to the US
Dominican Republic
Organization of young people to organize sit-ins and other direct action, it grew more radical over the decade
SNCC
This law ended discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation
civil rights act of 1964
Protest in this Alabama City led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act
selma
An alternative to Martin Luther King, the black power movement drew inspiration from his words
malcolm x
Created in 1964 as an alternative to the racist white political power structure in Mississippi
the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
some of the laws passed under Nixon in response to the environmental or ecology movement
clean water act, clean air act, EPA
It promoted cynicism about politics and disgraced the Nixon Legacy
watergate
Arab group that drastically increased oil prices in the 1970s
OPEC
An example of détente with the USSR was this arms control agreement
SALT I
Nixon’s key advisor in Foreign policy was this Harvard Professor
Kissinger
US commander in the Pacific War, Japanese Occupation, and Korea, until fired for insubordination
douglas macarthur
His mass-produced houses created the suburbs
Levitt
French defeat here forced them out of Vietnam
Dien Bien Phu
Black leader of the 1930s and 1940s Civil Rights movement
phillip randolph
Nasser’s seizure of this set off a diplomatic crisis in 1956, particularly when Britain and France tried to take it back by force
suez canal
Term for the system of racial discrimination in the US 1880s-1960s
jim crow
Court case where the US Supreme Court asserted its power to overrule acts of congress
Marbury v. Madison
Term for Monroe’s presidency, when there appeared to be no opposition to the ruling party
era of good feelings
Key ally of Andrew Jackson—secretary of Treasury during the bank war, later made chief justice of the US
Roger B Taney
British evangelical Christian who led the anti-slavery movement
William Wilberforce
Idea that colonial trade should be strictly controlled for the benefit of the Imperialist nation—the Navigation acts are part of this
mercantilism
Attempted slave revolution in colonial South Carolina
stono uprising
British political leader, behind the unpopular stamp act and Townsend acts
George Grenville
They led and organized the settlement of the Maryland colony
calvert family
Adams administration law to suppress dissent
alien and sedition act
She led the birth control movement of the Progressive Era
margaret sanger
Hoover program to lend $ to bank and other large businesses—too small and too late to help the depression
reconstruction finance corporation
Pro-business group , formed by the DuPont family to work against the New Deal
american liberty league
Scandal that forever tarnished the Harding Administration, featuring NM politician Albert Fall
teapot dome
Largely unsuccessful US program of loans to Weimar Republic to pay Germany’s WWI reparations
dawes plan
collection of secret documents, published in 1971, demonstrating a pattern of US government lies about the War in Vietnam
pentagon papers
South Vietnamese dictator, friend of the US, hated as a collaborator in South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Vietnamese guerilla group, seeking to overthrow the US backed dictatorship of South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Nixon’s largely failed plan to reduce the US role in the Vietnam war
vietnamization
This gave president Johnson the authority to use military force in South East Asia
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Violent protest of AIM here in 1973 revealed the continuing anger in the Native American movement, even after changes in government policy of the late 1960s
Wounded Knee
Constitutional changes demanded by Feminist movement of the 1970s
ERA
Violence in the wake of this anti-war protest badly divided the nation over the Vietnam War
Kent State
This event marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement
stonewall riot
Nixon hoped his nomination as Chief Justice would shift the court in a more conservative direction, it did not
warren berger
This ‘new left’ group organized many of the protests in Chicago during the democratic convention
SDS
One reason, according to your sidebar, for so many youth uprisings around the world in 1968
baby boom, instant communication
Although a military victory for the US, it was a political defeat, and marks the turning point of the Vietnam war
Tet Offensive
One of two anti-war democrats who challenged LBJ for the democratic nomination for president
Robert Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy
Chosen as the democratic nominee out of the chaos of the Chicago convention; he had little popular support
H. H. Humphrey
