Chapter 30 Flashcards
- New Left
political movement consisting of educators who wished to create reforms on things like Gay rights and drug
- Student for a Democratic Society
founded in Michigan 1962; radical organization wanted to rid American society of poverty, racism, and violence; embraced liberal reforms
- Free Speech Movement
student protest that took place at UC Berkeley where students wanted a ban lifted, the police attacked them
- Counterculture
Youth movement of the 1960s characterized by nonviolent anarchy, concern for the environment, and rejection of Western materialism
- Woodstock
Woodstock 3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s, nearly 1/2M gather in a 600 acre field
- Hippies
a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair and wearing beads, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values
- Haight-Ashbury
the place of origin of Hippie counter culture
- National Congress of American Indians
was formed to try and organize tribes to be able to deal with government
- American Indian Movement
the Native American attempt to try and achieve equal rights
- Indian Civil Rights Act 1968
guarantees of the Bill of Rights applicable within the tribes
- Wounded Knee Occupation
200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota
- Cesar Chavez
American Farm worker who arranged hunger strikes to help bring awareness to Mexican suffering
- United Farm Workers
a labor union for farm workers in the United States of America
- Stonewall Riot
police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular hang-out for gays in Greenwich Village in 1969.
- Gay Liberation Movement
homosexuals began an effort to win social and legal acceptance and to encourage gays to affirm their sexual identity
- New Feminism
philosophy that emphasises that men and women are equal
- The Feminine Mystique
Book that stated that women who had college degrees and were stuck at home were like in concentration camps
- National Organization for Women
formed to work for economic and legal rights of women. acted from the liberal tenet that women and men are alike in important respects
- Equal Rights Amendment
four amendments that gave freedom of voting rights and equal protection under the law to women and minorities
- Roe v. Wade
legalized abortion in the first trimester of a woman’s pregnancy
- Silent Spring
book that stated the effects that chemicals had on the environment and the animals in the Environment
- Ecology
scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
- Environmental Protection Agency
agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment
- Clean Air and Water Acts
restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation’s waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution
- Earth Day
celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally
- Vietnamization
reduce United States troop strength in Vietnam and train the South Vietnamese to take over the fighting themselves
- Henry Kissinger
National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
- Kent State
Ohio college where an anti-war protest got way out of hand, the National Guard was called in and killed 3 students
- My Lai Massacre
American troops had brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of My Lai, also led to more opposition to the war.
- “Peace with Honor”
Nixon phrase used to describe the Paris Peace accords to end the Vietnam
- Fall of Saigon
communist forces marched into Saigon, shortly after officials of the Thieu regime and the staff of the American embassy had fled
- Multipolar War
reality of the world in which there were several great powers, not just two
- SALT 1
treaty made between the U.S.S.R. and the United States to limit the nuclear missiles that each had
- Nixon Doctrine
US doesn’t fight every war, teams up with other governments around the globe to achieve ends
- Salvador Allende
communist dictator of Chile until 1973
- Six-Day War
Short conflict between Egypt and her allies against Israel won by Israel; Israel took over the Golan Heights
- Yom Kippur War
a coalition of Arab forces launched a surprise attack on Israel.
- Arab Oil Embargo
gas shortages caused by Arab refusing to allow U.S. oil supply because the U.S. helped Israel
- Engel v. Vitale
unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.
- Roth v. United States
redefined the Constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment.
- Gideon v. Wainwright
states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves.
- Escobedo v. Illinois
that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment
- Miranda v. Arizona
is a right to silence warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody
- Baker v. Carr
deciding that redistricting issues present justiciable questions
- Furman v. Georgia
Court decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty
- Bakke v. Board of Regents of California
It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy.
- George McGovern
ran for president against Nixon in 1972 helped reform democratic party
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
aims to manage the supply of oil in an effort to set the price of oil on the world market
- Watergate Cover-up
break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration’s attempted cover-up
- United States v. Richard Nixon
It resulted in a unanimous 8–0 ruling against President Richard Nixon and was important to the late stages of the Watergate scandal.
