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UNIT 8 1960-1970 Flashcards

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nixon and Kissinger strengthened the u.s by taking advantage of the z between the two communist giants (China And Soviet union)

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Detente

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secured Soveit consent to a freeze on the numberof ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads

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SALT

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Nixons new relationship with china to pressure the soviets into a treaty to limit anitballistic missiles aka-

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ABM

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shifting some responsibility for social programs from the federal to the state and local levels, in a new program-

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New Federalism

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unusual combination of economic slowdown and high inflation—-a condition referred to as-

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Stagflation

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gave the president, as commander in chief, a blank check to take “all of the necessary measures to protect U.S interests interests in Vietnam.

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Bealived that the war was a good thing for the government

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HAWKS

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Belived that the war was a bad thing for the U.S

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DOVES

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the Vietcong launched an all out surprise attack every provincial capital and american base in south Vietnam. Then failed

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tet offensive

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Nixons idea to gradually withdraw troops from Vietnam and give stuff to Vietnam so we dont have to carry the war for them

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veitnamization

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decared that the future asian alllies would receive U.S support but without the extensive use of U.S ground forces.

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nixon docterine

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promised a cease-fire and free elections

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paris accords

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law that required Nixon and any future president to report to congress within 48 hours after taking a military action

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war powers act

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made segregation illegal in public facilities

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civil rights 1964

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act ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars in areas where AA had been kept from voting since reconstruction

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voting rights act 1965

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repudiated nonviolence and advocated black power and racial separatism

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CORE

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civil right organization such as student nonviolent coordinating committee

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SNCC

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revolutionary socialist movment advocating self-rule for american blacks

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black panthers

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challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.

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freedom rides

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protests, freedom schools, freedom housing, freedom libraries, and a collective rise in awareness of voting rights and disenfranchisement experienced by African Americans in Mississippi.

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freedom summer

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attacked marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, United States,

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bloody sunday

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protest for Jobs and Freedom

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march on washington

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prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.

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equal pay act 1963

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statute to end sex discrimination in school that receive funding

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title IX

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equal rights admendment

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ERA

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gave the women’s movement a new direction by encouraging middle-class women to seek fulfillment in professional careers

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betty friedan: feminine mystique

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adopted the activist tactics of other civil rights movements to secure equal treatments of women

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NOW

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the farm workers workers were wildly exploited before a long series boycotts led by-

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cesar chavez

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to achevie self determination and revival of tribal traditions-

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AIM

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profoundly affected the criminal justice system and individual rights

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Warren court

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collage students formed a newky formed radical student organization called-

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SDS

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members of the Youth International Party were radical destructive antiwar protesters

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yippies

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very modern views of living were the group of new youth-

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counter culture

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leader of SDS, Hayden ideas were called-

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new left

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voters who had become disaffected by civil rights

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silent majority

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Nixons strategy to win over the south

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southern stategy

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a group of men hired by Nixon, to break into the national headquarters

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watergate

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The court’s decision was unanimous, but four separate opinions were published. The majority opinion

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US vs Nixon

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speech by carter where he blamed the problems of the US on a moral and spiritual crisis

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national malaise

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court ordered busing to achieve racial balance in the schools.

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burger court

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court case prohibited abortions as a violation to women’s privacy. The decision to allow women access to abortions became a primary target for the conservative movement in coming decades.

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Roe v Wade

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financed campaigns to unseat liberal members of congress

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Moral Majority

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combined weekly audience

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televangelist

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whites who blamed their troubles on affirmative actions

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reverse discrimination

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explained the negative environmental effects

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Rachel Carson: silent spring

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responsibility for regulating and enforcing programs and policies

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EPA

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regulated air emissions from both stationary and mobile sources

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Clean air act

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job is to protect critical imperiled species

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endangered species act

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scientists blame greenhouse gases in the atmosphere for-

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climate change

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process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country

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decolonization

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Egyptian Government seized control of the Suez Canal from the British and French owned company that managed it,

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suez crisis

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coordinates and unifies the petroleum policies of its Member Countries.

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OPEC

51
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Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel

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camp David accords

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