Unit 8 Test 3

Question 0

War on poverty

Answer 0

unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.

Question 1

Woodstock festival

Answer 1

A village in New York state, where some 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival. Note: The size of the crowd and the prevalence of hippie dress and customs led to use of the term Woodstock nation to indicate the youth counterculture of the late 1960s.

Question 2

Office of economic Opportunity

Answer 2

agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society legislative agenda.

Question 3

Medicare

Answer 3

federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older,
(And certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal disease)

Question 4

Tet Offensive

Answer 4

series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet.

Question 5

My Lai Massacre

Answer 5

A mass killing of helpless inhabitants of a village in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, carried out in 1968 by United States troops under the command of Lieutenant William Calley.
Fueled anti-war feelings in US

Question 6

Black Power

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movement that grew out of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Black Power calls for independent development of political and social institutions for black people and emphasizes pride in black culture.

Question 7

Black Panthers

Answer 7

a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights.

Question 8

American Indian Movement

Answer 8

(AIM), Native American civil-rights activist organization, founded in 1968 to encourage self-determination among Native Americans and to establish international recognition of their treaty rights.

Question 9

Cesar Chavez

Answer 9

Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association;

outspoken advocate of social change through nonviolent means;
Leader of 1960s grape boycott

Question 10

United Farm Workers Union

Answer 10

Aka United Farm Workers (UFW),

a labor union for farmworkers in the United States.

Question 11

The Feminine Mystique

Answer 11

1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United State

Identified”the problem that has no name” which was women’s unhappiness in traditional role

Question 12

Gloria Steinem

Answer 12

American feminist writer, journalist, and social and political activist
nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 70s

Question 13

National Organization for Women

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Aka NOW. A major feminist organization, founded in the middle 1960s, when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to enforce a clause in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender. One of its founders was Betty Friedan.

Question 14

Griswold v. Connecticut

Answer 14

381 U.S. 479 (1965), is a landmark case in which the The U.S. Supreme Court case which struck down a law that prohibited married couples from using birth control. In so doing, the Court affirmed that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to privacy, even though it does not explicitly say so.

Question 15

Miranda v. Arizona

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1966), the Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.

Question 16

Roe v. Wade

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Supreme Court decision in 1973 that, on the basis of the right to privacy, gave women an unrestricted right to abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. Pro-choice

Question 17

Bakke v. California

Answer 17

(1978) was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy.

Question 18

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 18

1970s; a new right activist that protested the women’s rights acts and movements as defying tradition and natural gender division of labor;

Led the campaign to stop the ERA

Question 19

Trail of Broken Treaties

Answer 19

cross-country protest in the United States by American Indian and First Nations organizations that took place in the autumn of 1972.

Media coverage designed to bring national attention to AIM grievances and articulate changes

Question 20

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

Answer 20

SALT) were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control.

Question 21

Environmental Protection Agency,

Answer 21

Aka EPA; an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs to protect human and environmental health

(aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment)

Question 22

Rachel Carson

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American author and biologist who was fervently devoted to defending the natural world against pollution.

Famous author of books:Silent Spring, concerning the overuse of pesticides and weed killers, and The Sea Around Us.

Question 23

Clean Air Act

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United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health.

Question 24

Watergate

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major political scandal when Nixon’s administration broke into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.,
the Nixon administration’s attempted cover-up led to his resignation

Question 25

Pentagon Papers

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classified (secret) study of the Vietnam War that was carried out by the Department of Defense. An official of the department, Daniel Ellsberg, gave copies of the study in 1971 to the New York Times and Washington Post.

Question 26

Suez crisis

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A major international incident that arose in 1956 from the decision by Gamal A. Nasser of Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal, which long had been controlled by Great Britain.
Aka Tripartite Aggression- Israel, Britain and France invaded, but didn’t succeed
Recognized as end of Britain’s role as a great world power!

Question 27

OPEC

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organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum

formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices, in order to avoid fluctuations that would affect world economy

Question 28

Sun Belt

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States in the South and Southwest marked by warm climate, rapid economic and population growth in the last two decades, and (often) political conservatism.

Question 29

Domino Theory

Answer 29

idea that if one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow like toppling dominoes. The theory was used by many American leaders to justify American intervention in the Vietnam War.