Ch. 28 Flashcards
Johnson’s “Great Society”
a society that has no poverty and the government saves us all
John F. Kennedys’s assassination
November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Tx he shot through the head and neck by a sniper and died within the hour. Then LBJ swore into presidency
Goldwater’s message
campaigned against the civil rights act and promised a more vigorous cold war foreign policy.
Education/medicare/medicaid
medicare- adults
medicaid- children
working women (and Equal Pay Act)
equal pay act established the principle of equal pay for equal work
Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique is a 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States
National Org. for Women (NOW)
organization to give women the ability to participate in full length society
Gulf of Tonkin incident
claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin
Operation Rolling Thunder
bombing campaign against north vietnam, but eventually helpe make them even more driven
UC Berkeley and the Free Speech Movement
students pro.tested the administrations decision to ban political activity in the school plaza
ways to avoid the draft
enlist as national guard or move to Canada or Switzerland
The counterculture
three day outdoor Woodstocse was k concert thats main purpo “love and peace”
The Tet Offensive
major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam by the north, major turning point in the war
The Democratic National Convention of 1968
convention consumed of political divisions generated by the war
George Wallace
famous segregationist who stood in the schoolhouse door to prevent blacks from entering.
Miss America pageant and women’s liberation
women were more than looks and men were starting to understand that, they used the miss america pageant as examples of what they are perceived as.
Title LX (9)
law that prohibited colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.
Stonewall Inn Riots
two day riot after the police raided the gay bar with contributed to the rise of gay liberation movement.
Nixon’s “silent majority”
those who supported Nixon but did not publicly announce it
Vietnamization
polcy by Nixon of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War, american casulaties dropped.
My Lai massacre
in 1968 U.S army troops had executed nearly five hundred people in South Vietnamese village My Lai
Busing controversy
These gains occurred in the context of the second great controversy of the school desegregation effort – busing. THE CONTROVERSY CAME TO A HEAD in the Supreme Court’s 1971 decision, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, one of the first attempts to implement a large-scale urban desegregation plan.
Election of 1972
47th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. The Democratic Party’s nomination was eventually won by Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, who ran an anti-war campaign against incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon,
