Quiz 40, Chapter 22, pp. 417-426 Flashcards
What did President Johnson call his welfare programs?
Great Society
Who led the movement to remove prayer and Bible reading from our public schools?
Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Name the organization of Middle East countries that export oil.
OPEC
What was built by several large oil companies to extend from the North Slope to the southern shore of Alaska?
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Gulf of Tonkin incident
used by Johnson to send more troops to Vietnam
Tet Offensive
exposed Congress’s refusal to allow the American military to take an offensive position
24th Amendment
banned poll taxes
26th Amendment
gave 18-year-old Americans the right to vote
Henry Kissinger
negotiated the cease-fire in Vietnam
ACLU
defended the extreme views of atheist, socialist, and Communist minorities
Thurgood Marshall
became the first black associate justice of the Supreme Court