Chapter 23&24 Flashcards
Elimination of all forms of poverty and inequality
Great Society
Banned poll taxes
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Equality of population in legislative districts
“One man, one vote” decisions
Broad legal interpretation to attack social problems
Judicial Activism
A call for civil rights by any means necessary
“Black Power”
American politician conducted the congressional investigation of Alger Hiss
Richard Nixon
Separation of Eastern Europe from the West
Iron Curtain
Policy of resistance to continuing Communist aggression
Containment
Policy of a war objective short of total victory
Limited war
Goal of accommodation with communism
“Peaceful Existence”
Massive rise in the U.S. population after World War II
Baby boom
Black attempts to secure protection of legal entitlements
Civil rights movement
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1961 operation against communist Cuba was originally backed by the United States but resulted in disaster when aid was withdrawn at the last minute
Bay of Pigs
Communist leader in China
Mao Zedong
This act objective was to weaken unions
Taft-Hartley Act
This Supreme Court Decision said public schools should not be segregated by race.
Brown v. The board of education
Commander of the UN military forces in Korea
Douglas McCarther
Communist leader in Cuba
Fidel Castro
Democrat who advocated the Fair Deal
Harry Truman
Rebellious youth movement of the 1960s
Counterculture
Relaxation of U.S.-Soviet tensions
Détente
Government health insurance program was instituted in 1965 to help elderly people pay their medical expenses
Medicare
Pro-Communist South Vietnamese guerillas
Viet Cong
Republican who advocated “Dynamic Conservatism”
Dwight Eisenhower
Belief that the fall of one nation in Southeast Asia to communism will lead to the fall of other nations there
Domino Theory
East Germany begin building this in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the West
Berlin Wall
This term was coined to describe accusations based on lies, distortion, and innuendo.
McCarthyism
This law was designed to ban the union shop
“Right-to-Work” law
President Nixon’s policy of reducing American forces in Vietnam and increasing the role of the South Vietnamese
Vietnamization
University where four students were killed during a 1970 antiwar protest
Kent State
This act created the CIA, National Security Council, and Department of Defense
National Security Act
His policy was The Great Society
Lyndon Johnson
This revolution escalated the number of American troops in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
He was a judicial activist
Earl Warren
Antiwar Democratic candidate who challenged Johnson in the New Hampshire primary in 1968
Eugene McCarthy
Location of the worst urban riots in the 1960s
Los Angeles
Popular Democratic leader who was murdered in 1968
Robert Kennedy
Republican “law-and-order” campaign
Richard Nixon
Fiery conservative candidate of the American Independent Party in 1968
George Wallace
Secretary of State who negotiated the SALT Treaty
Henry Kissinger
Zealously liberal Democrat who lost by a landslide in 1972
George McGovern
This act created the Equal Opportunity Commission, forbid racial discrimination, and promoted desegregation of public schools
Civil Rights Act of 1964
