UNIT 8 1960-1970

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Detente

Question 2

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

Answer 2

SALT

Question 3

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

Answer 3

ABM

Question 4

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

Answer 4

New Federalism

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Stagflation

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 7

Bealived that the war was a good thing for the government

Answer 7

HAWKS

Question 8

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

Answer 8

DOVES

Question 9

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

Answer 9

tet offensive

Question 10

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

Answer 10

veitnamization

Question 11

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

Answer 11

nixon docterine

Question 12

promised a cease-fire and free elections

Answer 12

paris accords

Question 13

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

Answer 13

war powers act

Question 14

made segregation illegal in public facilities

Answer 14

civil rights 1964

Question 15

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

Answer 15

voting rights act 1965

Question 16

repudiated nonviolence and advocated black power and racial separatism

Answer 16

CORE

Question 17

civil right organization such as student nonviolent coordinating committee

Answer 17

SNCC

Question 18

revolutionary socialist movment advocating self-rule for american blacks

Answer 18

black panthers

Question 19

challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.

Answer 19

freedom rides

Question 20

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

Answer 20

freedom summer

Question 21

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

Answer 21

bloody sunday

Question 22

protest for Jobs and Freedom

Answer 22

march on washington

Question 23

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

Answer 23

equal pay act 1963

Question 24

statute to end sex discrimination in school that receive funding

Answer 24

title IX

Question 25

equal rights admendment

Answer 25

ERA

Question 26

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

Answer 26

betty friedan: feminine mystique

Question 27

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

Answer 27

NOW

Question 28

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

Answer 28

cesar chavez

Question 29

to achevie self determination and revival of tribal traditions-

Answer 29

AIM

Question 30

profoundly affected the criminal justice system and individual rights

Answer 30

Warren court

Question 31

collage students formed a newky formed radical student organization called-

Answer 31

SDS

Question 32

members of the Youth International Party were radical destructive antiwar protesters

Answer 32

yippies

Question 33

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

Answer 33

counter culture

Question 34

leader of SDS, Hayden ideas were called-

Answer 34

new left

Question 35

voters who had become disaffected by civil rights

Answer 35

silent majority

Question 36

Nixons strategy to win over the south

Answer 36

southern stategy

Question 37

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

Answer 37

watergate

Question 38

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

Answer 38

US vs Nixon

Question 38

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

Answer 38

national malaise

Question 39

court ordered busing to achieve racial balance in the schools.

Answer 39

burger court

Question 40

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.

Answer 40

Roe v Wade

Question 41

financed campaigns to unseat liberal members of congress

Answer 41

Moral Majority

Question 42

combined weekly audience

Answer 42

televangelist

Question 43

whites who blamed their troubles on affirmative actions

Answer 43

reverse discrimination

Question 44

explained the negative environmental effects

Answer 44

Rachel Carson: silent spring

Question 45

responsibility for regulating and enforcing programs and policies

Answer 45

EPA

Question 46

regulated air emissions from both stationary and mobile sources

Answer 46

Clean air act

Question 47

job is to protect critical imperiled species

Answer 47

endangered species act

Question 47

scientists blame greenhouse gases in the atmosphere for-

Answer 47

climate change

Question 48

process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country

Answer 48

decolonization

Question 49

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

Answer 49

suez crisis

Question 50

coordinates and unifies the petroleum policies of its Member Countries.

Answer 50

OPEC

Question 51

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

Answer 51

camp David accords