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Chapter 29- Troubled Times Flashcards

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won the election of 1964

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Lyndon B Johnson

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conservative form Arizona who ran against LBJ in 1964 election

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Barry M Goldwater

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President Johnson’s social welfare plan

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Great Society

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two major goals of the Great Society

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improve education

eradicate poverty

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act under Johnson’s Great Society that continued federal grants for the construction of college buildings and ensured student loans and grants

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Higher Education Act of 1965

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granted the first direct federal funding of local public schools

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Elementary and Secondary Education Act

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was intended to raise the standard of living in the Appalachian Mountain region

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Appalachian Development Act

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two new Cabinet-level offices established during the Johnson administration

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Department of Housing an Urban Development
Department of Transportation

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beca,e the largest public welfare program since the New Deal

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Great Society

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prohibited discrimination in renting or selling houses

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Fair Housing Act

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white supremacist organization

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Ku Klux Khan

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black separatist group

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Black Panthers

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the most prominent black separatist leader who considered Martin Luther King, Jr’s too peaceful

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Malcolm X

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prohibited racial discrimination in public places

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1964 Civil Rights Act

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outlawed poll taxes for national elections

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24th Amendment

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strengthened previous voting rights laws

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1965 Voting Rights

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the first black American cabinet officer

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Robert Weaver

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first black associate justice of the Supreme Court

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Thurgood Marshall

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Martin Luther King’s plan to end discrimination n

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nonviolent demonstrations

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year Martin Luther King was assassinated

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1968

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years for the Vietnam War

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1965-1973

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provided legal justification for US involvement in the Vietnam conflict

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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year Johnson sent the first combat troops to South Vietnam

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1965

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commanded the troops in South Vietnam

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General William C. Westmoreland

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series of devastating battles that exposed Congress’s refusal to allow the AMerican military to take an offensive position and fight to win in Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

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the Vietnam War divided the American public into

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hawks (support the fight against Communism)
doves (soft towards Communism)

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erupted in the Middle East when Egypt Jordan, and Syria attacked Israel in June 1967

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Six-Day War

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US two-man projects

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Gemini

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US three-man project

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Apollo

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three astronauts that traveled on Apollo 11

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Neil Armstrong
Edwin Aldrin, Jr.
Michael Collins

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mission that put man on the moon

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Apollo

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became the first baseplayer ever to score 100 points during a single professional game

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Wilt Chamberlain

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the counterculture movement that attempted to erode the values of traditional American culture

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hippie lifestyle

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emerged as the strongest Democratic contender for the Presidency in the election of 1968 but was assassinated

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Robert F Kennedy

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assassinated Robert F Kennedy

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Sirhan Sirhan

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Republican candidate for the election of 1968

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Richard M Nixon

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won election of 1968

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Richard M Nixon

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Nixon Administration concentrated on

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bringing peace to Vietnam

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two college campuses where violent anti-ware demonstrations were held

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Kent State
Jackson State College

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lowered the voting age from 21 years to 18 years of age

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26th Amendment

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was beaten by Nixon in the election of 1972

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George McGovern

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year the US and North Vietnam signed a cease-fire agreement

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1973

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the longest war the US was ever involved in

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Vietnam War

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America’s first no-win war

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Vietnam

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an official policy of lessened hostility between nations

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detente

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Nixon’s secretary of state that was the spokesperson for the negotiation with Communist China

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Henry Kissinger

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Nixon and Kissinger agreed to this with the Soviet leader

agreement to limit production of nuclear arms

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty

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year President Nixon visited Communist China

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1972

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when the Israelis drove the Egyptians back and prepared to invade Egypt

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Yom Kippur War

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Middle East’s reaction to Americans aiding the Israelis

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Arab oil embargo

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a monopoly designed to control the supply and price of Middle eastern oil

helped to send the American economy into a serious recession

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OPEC

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Congress sought to lessen AMerican dependence on the Middle East oil by permitting several large oil companies to build the 800-mile-long

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Alaska Pipeline

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during the Nixon Administration, the root cause of inflation was the

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loose money policies of the Federal Reserve

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in 1972, Congress ruled against

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capital punishment

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1973 Supreme Court decision that ruled in favor of abortion

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Roe vs Wade

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Nixon’s VP that resigned because he admitted to taking bribes and evading his income taxes

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Spiro Agnew

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year in which several of Nixon’s closest advisors had been convicted of criminal charges

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1974

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political scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation

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Watergate affair

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became President when Nixon resigned

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Gerald R Ford

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year President FORD officially announced the end of American involvement in Vietnam

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1975

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after FORD announced the end of American involvement, the Communists took control of

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Saigon
Cambodia
Laos

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won the election of 1976

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James Carter

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Carter built his foreign policy on a concept known as

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human rights

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President Carter acquiesced to the UN and negotiated the surrender of the

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Panama Canal Zone

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Carter’s policy of appeasement and reluctance to contain Communism with force no doubt encouraged the Soviet invasion of

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Afghanistan in December 1979

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was signed by Carter, Begin, and Sadat at a ceremony on the White House grounds

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Camp David Peace accord

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for the first time on over 2000, Jews and Arabs sat down together and negotiated a peace treaty at the

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Camp David Peace Accord

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a revolution deposed the ______________________ a friend of the US

Carter refused to come to his aid

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Shah of Iran

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a Muslim religious leader that led the Iranian rebel group that overtook the Shah of Iran

took American embassy and held 63 hostages

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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new Cabinet position created during the Carter Administration

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secretary of energy

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offered a solution to the energy problem

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atomic power

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the highlight of the 1970s

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Bicentennial Celebration of 1976

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