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Americans with Disabilities Act

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protects people with disablities, that qualifies for employment, and provides accomidatins in public places, restrooms, and public transportaion

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Nixon Doctrine

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US would not give extensive manpower to other Asian wars, but would still give economic military aid to the victims of the agressors
The US would carry out their current treaty agreements

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New Conservationism

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decrease the size of the govt, lower taxes, and reform social welfare programs
They helped Republicans win 3 straight elections from 1980-88

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Beatniks

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conformity upset writers

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Reaganomics

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supported wealthy businesses so that the wealth would trickle down to the all classes

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Tet Offensive

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massive thrust southward by the Communists in the north

US pushed back the attack but it hurt morale and increased communism support in Vietnam

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Military Industrial Complex

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Money relations between legislator, Pentagon, and industry
Eisenhower warned of this becuse the web of money, weapons, and the people who make foreign policies can led tocorruption
Protect oil interests in the middle east

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Equal Rights Amendment

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It was first proposed in 1923 for equal rights for women under the law passed by House and Senete in 1972
States never ratified it and it expired in 1982

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Atlantic Charter

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CHurchill and FDR agreed to stabalize the world with peace after WWII

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War Powers Act

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President cannot use extensive overseas force without the concent of the Congress

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Cuban Missle Crisis

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2 weeks into Oct and after Bay of Pigs
Soviets moved missles to Cuba to blow up US
Kennedy’s solution was blockade Cuba with naval ships and threatened force to Khrushchev
Khrushchev agreed as long as there was no fighting and moved the missles to Turkey

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Department of Homeland Security

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War on Terror created it

Keeps americans safe from terriorist attacks

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Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson wrote it

Launched an enviormental movement that led to a certain ban of pesticides

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U2

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Spyplane that was shot out in Soviets
US denied that it was flying in Soviet border
Francis Power ws the pilot and was held captive
Increased suspisions amongst nations

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NAFTA

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lifted certain tariffs between US, Canada, and Mexico

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Star Wars

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Strategic Defense Initiative was an elobrate technological endevor that looked to zap satalettes out of the sky
Sounded like sci fi

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Sputnik

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Soviets successful first satalitte
Made america nervous about inferiority
America increasedspending on education and science

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Nixon’s Ping Pong diplomacy

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brought peacful relations to China
brought friendly competition but not hostility
Beginning of Chinas industrial boom

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Domino Theory

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If one nation fell to communism in China, the rest of the countries would fall, like dominos
It was important to stop the first country from being communist

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Little Rock Nine

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Media of the country went crazy when 9 students in Little Rock AK were met with mobs and protestors
Govener Faubus called in the AK guard, but Eisenhower had the final say as Commander in Chief and Enforcer of Laws

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Iran Hostage Crisis

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Held AMeicans for 444 days
Decreased American moral
Resues failed and they were released on Reagans ignogeration day

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Bay of Pigs

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Castro v Cuban Exiles and US
Castro won
This strengthened Castro and he became the Soviets biggest ally

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Berlin Airlift

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US and UK sent 277,000 flights of supplies to the people in Germany

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Camp David Accords

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Egypt agreed to reonize Isreal as a nation in exchange for Isreal returning the Sinai Peninsula

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Truman Doctrine

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Gave military aid (no troops) to counties resisting communism
Greeece and Turkey took advantage of it

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Stagflation

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high inflation, slow growth, high unemployment

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Containment

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Opposite of appeasement or giving into what the agressor wants

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Rosenbergs

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Accused of selling nuclear secrets to Soviets

First civilians executed for treason

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Christian Right

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Created in reaciton to Liberal social issues
it was a strong conservationism voice to show the importance of religious teachings and place greater importance to family values

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Counterculture?

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Preached peace and love and anti war and military draft

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Taft-Hartley Act

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hurt unions badly because certain types of unions were prohibited
prohibited closed shops (one had to be in a certain industry to work in the industry)

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United Nations

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international peace keeping organization
US, Soviet, France, UK, and China were permenat veto power
Grew out of Atlantic Charter
Assemble peacekeeping troops

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NATO

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supported democracy

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Warsaw Pact

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Communist Bloc

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War on Terror

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Bush led these military efforts to remove the taliban from power in Afganistan

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Civil Rights Act 1964

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Ended all forms of segregation and discrimination

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G.I. Bill,

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Gave WWII vetrans free college, vocational training, and good loans on homes and business ventures

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Gulf of Tonkin

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In Vietnam
US ships were fired on
Congress let Johnson have control of military in Vietnam
This led to large escalations of American forces

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Cesar Chaves

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From 1960s to 1980s he was apart of United Farm Workers called for boycotts to help farm laborers get better pay and safer working conditions industries (especially in grape and lettace industry)

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Marshall Plan,

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give economic aid to countries that are not communist
Was to make countries strongers to oppose communist power
Used $12.5 billion to European countries

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Stonewall Riots

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Strengthened gay rights movement
bar in Greenwich Village NY
Police raided the bar and gays resisted arrest
Became a magnet for protest and gay pride started up

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George Wallace

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Pro segregation govener of AL
Personally tried to get black students to not go to class at University of AL (unsuccessful)
Ran for president 4 times (3 as democrat and 1 as far right)

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Watergate

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There was a break in at the Democrat headquarters in the Water gate hotel
Nixon claimed he knew nothing about it, but tapes said otherwise
In US v Nixion they ordered him to give up the tapes
After vice president Agnew resigned after income tax invasion, so did Nixon to avoid impeachment

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McCarthyism

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witch hunt to sniff out communists both in govt and america

Simular to the first red scare

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detente

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1970s
more peaceful
Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev smiled together
Strategic Arms limitation talks: limited the amount of nuclear weapons they had in their arsonal

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Great Society

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plan to help poor, minorities, and disadvantaged

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