Unit 10: Important Figures Flashcards
Stokely Carmichael
head of SNCC who preached “overtaking white Americans” and preached “Black Power”-pride in history and heritage; create society apart from white society
Robert S. McNamara
Cabinet officer who promoted “flexible response” but came to doubt the wisdom of the Vietnam War he had presided over
Lt. William Calley
was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. It was committed by the U.S. Army soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division.Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.[2][3] Twenty six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted.
Malcolm X
initially preached complete segregation, but views changed to integration when he converted to Islam; was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam because they disagreed with what he was promoting
Eugene McCarthy
1968 Democratic candidate for President who ran to succeed incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson on an anti-war platform.
John Mitchell
John Mitchell Nixon’s first attorney general and his close friend and adviser; many people believe he ordered the Watergate break-in. He participated in the cover-up and served nineteen months in prison for his role.
Spiro Agnew
Nixon’s vice-president resigned and pleaded “no contest” to charges of tax evasion on payments made to him when he was governor of Maryland. He was replaced by Gerald R. Ford.
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt; Carteer invited Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin to a conference at Camp David; the two signed an agreement that served as a step toward peace between Egypt and Israel.
Jimmy Carter
President who stressed human rights. Because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
George Bush Sr.
President after Regan. The economy is bad during his presidency. He promises no new taxes but breaks that promise. Helps in Iraq and many other foreign countries.
Saddam Hussein
the leader of Iraq during the middle of the Cold War. Although initially supported by the U.S. to fight Iran, his invasion of Kuwait made him a prime enemy of America.
Bobby Seale
Leader of the Black Panthers gang, alllll the black power and violence.
Barry Goldwater
In 1964, LBJ was opposed by this Republican Arizona senator who attacked the federal income tax, the Social Security
system, the Tennessee Valley Authority, civil rights legislation, the
nuclear test-ban treaty, and the Great Society
Ceasar Chavez
1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers.
George Wallace
Third-party candidate; former governor of Alabama, a segregationist who wanted to bomb the Vietnamese to death
Timothy Leary
Former Harvard psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD). LSD GUYS
Gerald Ford
first president to be solely elected by a vote from Congress. He entered the office in August of 1974 when Nixon resigned. He pardoned Nixon of all crimes that he may have committed. The Vietnam War ended in 1975, in which Ford evacuated nerely 500,000 Americans and South Vietnamese from Vietnam. He closed the war.
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State. He helped to develop ties with China and eased tensions with the Soviets, which both would later help get the U.S. out of Vietnam.
Menachem Begin
Leader of Israel who signed a peace treaty with Egypt at the Camp David Accords, which had Israel withdrawing from Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip and returning the land to Egypt
Jesse Jackson
A black candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 election who attempted to appeal to minorities, but eventually lost the nomination to Michael Dukakis
Oliver North
National Security Council aid convicted of obstructing Congress in the terrorist-money-for-rebel-aid scandal
Yasser Arafat
in 1993 Clinton presided over a historic meeting at the White House between Israeli premier Yitzshak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir. They agreed in principle on self-rule for the Palestinians within Israel
Hubert H. Humphrey
On June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was shot fatally, and the
Democratic ticket went to this man
Betty Friedan
author who wrote “the feminine Mystique”
Rachel Carson
wrote “silent spring”
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader of the Shiites
Sandra Day O’Connor
She was a laywer and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Certifiable badass of the Supreme Court, nbd.
George McGovern
South Dakota Senator that was spurred to rise by the Vietnam conflict to the 1972 Democratic nomination. McGovern’s promise to pull the remaining American troops out of Vietnam in 90 days earned him the backing of the large antiwar element in the party but his appeal to racial minorities, feminists, leftists, and youth alienated the traditional working-class backbone of his party
Leonid Brezhnev
third leader of Communist Russia who re instituted policies from Stalin’s reign.
Ronald Reagan
Ran on a campaign based on the common man and “populist” ideas. participated in the McCarthy Communist scare. Iran released hostages on his Inauguration Day in 1980. While president, he developed Reagannomics, the trickle down effect of government incentives. He cut out many welfare and public works programs.
He used the Strategic Defense Initiative to avoid conflict. His meetings with Gorbachev were the first steps to ending the Cold War.
He was also responsible for the Iran-contra Affair which bought hostages with guns.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms
