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Chapter 30 & 31 Reading Flashcards

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counterculture

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beat’s movement emphasis on freedom from materialism and the civil rights movement’s questioning of traditional boundaries

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hippes

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members of the counterculture; valued youth, spontaneity, individuality; promoted peace, love, and freedom; experimented with drugs, new style of dress and music, and freer attitudes toward sexual relationships

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generation gap

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misunderstanding between the older and younger generation

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sexual revolution

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hippies rejected traditional restrictions on sexual behavior

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communes

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small communities where people shared interests and resources

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Haight Ashbury district

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San Fransisco; center of the counterculture; hippies experimented with drugs and listened to rock music and speeches by political radicals

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Timothy Leary

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encouraged youths to “tune in”, “turn on” to drugs and “drop out” of mainstream society

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some hippies sought spiritually outside

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of the Judeo-Christian tradition exploring Eastern religions and practices of Native Americans; sought to live offload in harmony with nature

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feminism

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theory of political, social, and ecomonic opportunity for men and women

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Betty Friedan

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described women’s dissatisfaction in The Feminine Mystique; helped establish the NOW

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national organization for women

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sought to win equality for women; campaigned for passage of the equal rights amendment; worked to protect a women’s right to abortion

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equal rights amendment

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guarantee gender equality under the law; failed to pass partly to Phyllis

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Gloria Steinnem

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sought to raise consciousness throughout the media and cofound Ms. magazine

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Phyllis Schlafly

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conservative political activist; denounced women liberation as a “total assault on the family, on marriage, and on children”

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title 9

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of the higher education act; banned discrimination in education

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equal credit opportunity act

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made it illegal to deny credit to a woman on the basis of gender

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roe v wade

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gave women the right to legal abortions

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mexican immigrants came as

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temporary workers; and latin immigrants filled the need for cheap labor

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bracero program

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allowed Mexicans to work on American farms

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immigration and nationality act

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immigration from latin America surged

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Cesar Chavez

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formed the united farm workers; most influential Latino activist

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united farm workers

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implemented a strike and boycott of grapes that secured safer working conditions for migrant farmworkers

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Chicano movement

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worked to raise consciousness, reduce poverty and discrimination, and attain political power for latinos

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American Indian movement

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eased poverty and helped secure legal rights and self-government for Native Americans; took over Wounded Knee, South Dakota to protest living conditions on reservations; led to the deaths of 2 AIM members

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Indian self-determination act

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granted tribes greater control over resources on reservations

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Ralph Nader

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published Unsafe at Any Speed; investigated the link between flawed car design and death in automobile accidents; consumer rights movement started; prompted congress to pass laws to improve automobile safety

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Silent Spring

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by Rachel Carson; inspired much environmental activism; describes the deadly impact that pesticides were having on birds and other animals; argued that humans were drastically altering the environment and had a responsibility to protect it; protests compelled congress to restrict use of pesticide DDT

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coal smog

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poisonous byproducts of human activity

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environmental protection agency

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protect the entire ecological chain; worked to clean up and protect the environment and sought to limit or eliminate pollutants that posed a risk to the public’s health

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clean air act

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combated air pollution by limiting the emissions form factories and automobiles

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clean water act

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reduced water pollution by industry and agriculture

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endangered species act

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helped to protect endangered plants and animals

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3 mile island

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nuclear reactor; Pennsylvania; malfunctioned and the core began to melt

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Henry Kissinger

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Nixon’s leading advisor on national security and international affairs; argued with Nixon that a flexible, pragmatic foreign policy would benefit the US

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realpolitik

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foreign affairs; German word meaning “real politics”; nation’s political goals around the world should be defined by what is good for the nation instead of by abstract ideologies

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Nixon’s first bold move and 3 reasons

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normalize relations with China; wanted to drive a wedge between China and the Soviet Union; China would be a good trading partner; China could pressure North Vietnam to accept a negotiated peace and end with the Vietnam War

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Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong

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premier; chairmen; China; Nixon met with; first historic step toward normalizing relations between the 2 countries

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Leonid Brezhnev

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Soviet leader; invited the president to visit Moscow; where they signed the strategic arms limitation treaty

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strategic arms limitation treaty

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froze the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles and placed limits on antiballistic missiles; first step toward limiting the arms race

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detente

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US and Soviet Union; implemented to replace the prior foreign policy, which was based on suspicion and distrust; eased tensions between the 2 nations

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short and long term foreign policy

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new relationships forged helped to end the Vietnam war; moved the world closer to the end of the Cold War

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silent majority

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working men and women who made up Middle America; Nixon believed they were tired of big government; wanted the government to address social problems like crime and pollution

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revenue sharing

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federal government gave money to the states to run social programs

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stagflation

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Nixon’s presidency plagued by combination of recession and inflation

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organization of petroleum exporting countries

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placed an oil embargo on Israel’s allies; oil prices skyrocketed

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Watergate scandal

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June 1972; burglars broke into the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington; Nixon denied any wrongdoing; one of them said government official was involved; Vice President Agnew resigned; tapes provided evidence Nixon was involved; Nixon resigned

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25th amendment

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under Nixon assigned Ford as new vice president

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executive privilege

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principle that the president has the right to keep contained information confidential

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pardoned

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officially forgiven

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Ford

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long record of public service; support from democratic and republic; support fell after he pardoned Nixon for anything during presidency

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1974 congressional elections

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showed the public’s disapproval of the pardon and the impact of Watergate; republicans lost 48 seats in the House of Representatives

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Jimmy Carter

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former Georgia governor; won many Christian fundamentalists; most of the bills he submitted to congress didn’t pass without changes form his own party

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amnesty

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Carter granted to Americans who had evaded the draft in hope of moving the nation beyond the Vietnam War

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me decade

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1970’s; many Americans appeared to be absorbed with self-improvement; began to jog and eat healthy

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televangelists

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Jerry Falwell; preached to millions on television

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Helsinki Accords

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the nation’s of Europe expressed their support of human rights

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boat people

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South Vietnamese people came to the US in rickety boats; represented the largest mass migration by sea in modern history

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Carter’s foreign policy would be guided by

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a concern for human rights; tried to use his policy to end acts of political repression, like torture

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salt 2 treaty

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limit nuclear arms production

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sanctions

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Carter’s response to the Soviets invading Afghanistan; boycott in the 1980 summer Olympic Games in Moscow

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developing world

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Carter helped change the way the US delt with; emphasis on human rights led him to alter the US relationship with a number of dictators

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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fundamentalist islamic clerics; US backed Shah of Iran forced to flee; Iranian radicals invaded the US embassy and took 66 hostages; failed to win the release of the hostages was evidence on American weakness

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camp David accords

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led to a peace treaty in which Egypt recognized Israel; Carter invited the 2 leaders to a presidential retreat

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