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Chapter 23&24 Flashcards

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Elimination of all forms of poverty and inequality

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Great Society

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2
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Banned poll taxes

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Twenty-fourth Amendment

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3
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Equality of population in legislative districts

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“One man, one vote” decisions

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Broad legal interpretation to attack social problems

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Judicial Activism

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A call for civil rights by any means necessary

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“Black Power”

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American politician conducted the congressional investigation of Alger Hiss

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Richard Nixon

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Separation of Eastern Europe from the West

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Iron Curtain

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Policy of resistance to continuing Communist aggression

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Containment

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Policy of a war objective short of total victory

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Limited war

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Goal of accommodation with communism

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“Peaceful Existence”

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Massive rise in the U.S. population after World War II

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Baby boom

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Black attempts to secure protection of legal entitlements

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Civil rights movement

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What 1961 operation against communist Cuba was originally backed by the United States but resulted in disaster when aid was withdrawn at the last minute

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Bay of Pigs

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Communist leader in China

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Mao Zedong

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15
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This act objective was to weaken unions

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Taft-Hartley Act

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This Supreme Court Decision said public schools should not be segregated by race.

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Brown v. The board of education

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Commander of the UN military forces in Korea

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Douglas McCarther

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Communist leader in Cuba

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Fidel Castro

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Democrat who advocated the Fair Deal

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Harry Truman

20
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Rebellious youth movement of the 1960s

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Counterculture

21
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Relaxation of U.S.-Soviet tensions

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Détente

22
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Government health insurance program was instituted in 1965 to help elderly people pay their medical expenses

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Medicare

23
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Pro-Communist South Vietnamese guerillas

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Viet Cong

24
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Republican who advocated “Dynamic Conservatism”

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Dwight Eisenhower

25
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Belief that the fall of one nation in Southeast Asia to communism will lead to the fall of other nations there

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Domino Theory

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East Germany begin building this in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the West

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Berlin Wall

27
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This term was coined to describe accusations based on lies, distortion, and innuendo.

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McCarthyism

28
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This law was designed to ban the union shop

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“Right-to-Work” law

29
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President Nixon’s policy of reducing American forces in Vietnam and increasing the role of the South Vietnamese

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Vietnamization

30
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University where four students were killed during a 1970 antiwar protest

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Kent State

31
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This act created the CIA, National Security Council, and Department of Defense

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National Security Act

32
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His policy was The Great Society

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Lyndon Johnson

33
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This revolution escalated the number of American troops in Vietnam

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Gulf of Tonkin resolution

34
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He was a judicial activist

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Earl Warren

35
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Antiwar Democratic candidate who challenged Johnson in the New Hampshire primary in 1968

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Eugene McCarthy

36
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Location of the worst urban riots in the 1960s

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Los Angeles

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Popular Democratic leader who was murdered in 1968

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Robert Kennedy

38
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Republican “law-and-order” campaign

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Richard Nixon

39
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Fiery conservative candidate of the American Independent Party in 1968

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George Wallace

40
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Secretary of State who negotiated the SALT Treaty

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Henry Kissinger

41
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Zealously liberal Democrat who lost by a landslide in 1972

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George McGovern

42
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This act created the Equal Opportunity Commission, forbid racial discrimination, and promoted desegregation of public schools

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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