Unit 8b Flashcards
Martin Luther King Jr.
US Baptist minister and civil rights leader, organized nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstration
Thurgood Marshall
First African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States
Voting rights act of 1965
Ended literacy test and provided federal registrars in areas where blacks were kept from voting
League of United Latin American citizens
Built on their community’s patriotic contributions to national defense in the arm services to challenge long-standing patterns of discrimination and exclusion, they protested segregation in schools and public facilities
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Also known as the Hart-Cellar act, eliminated race as a basis of exclusion but retain the racist national origins quota system
Tonkin gulf resolution
Gave president unlimited authority to defend the US forces
Students for a democratic society
A newly formed radical student organization under the leadership of Tom Hayden. The group issued a declaration of purposes known as the port Huron statement, which called for university decisions to be made through participate democracy
(New Left)
Counterculture
Expressed by young people in rebellious styles of dress, music, drug use, and communal living
Woodstock Festival
A music festival in upper New York that reflected the zenith of counterculture
War on poverty
Declared by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Created a variety of programs to help poor, including the Job Corps and the Headstart
Office of economic opportunity
Part of war on poverty; sponsored self-help programs such as Head Start and Job Corps
Medicare
Provided health insurance for old people 65 and older
Tet Offensive
Surprise attack by the Vietcong
My Lai massacre
US troops brutally massacred women and children
Black power
Believes in black autonomy and Advocates use of violence as a means of achieving their aims
Black panthers
Organize by Huey newton, Bobby Seale and other militants as a revolutionary socialist movement advocating self-rule for African blacks
American Indian movement
To achieve self determination in revival of tribal traditions
Cesar Chavez
Led boycott in Mexico, and helped form the United farmworkers organization to improve conditions for migrant farm workers
United farm workers union
Led by Cesar Chavez, succeeded in helping to improve working conditions
The feminine mystique
Book made by Betty Frieden that gave feminism movement a new direction by encouraging middle-class women to seek fulfillment and professional careers addition to filling the rules of wife, mother, and homemaker
Gloria Steinem
An American journalist, the cofounder of Ms. magazine, who advocated the women’s liberation movement
National organization for women
Founded by Friedan, which adopted activist tactics of other civil rights movement to secure a equal treatment of women
Equal rights amendment
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex
Griswold vs Connecticut
Court ruled that the state cannot prohibit the use of contraceptives by adults
Miranda vs. Arizona
Requires the police to inform an arrested person of his or her right to be silent and the right to a lawyer being present during questioning by the police
Roe vs. Wade
The high court struck down many state laws prohibiting the portions of the violation of the women’s right to privacy
Bakke vs. California
While race can be considered, the school racial quotas were unconstitutional
Phyllis Schlafly
Conservative female political activist, stop the Equal rights amendment from being passed
Trail of broken treaties
1971 American Indian movement protest against America’s lies and broken promises
Strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT)
1- US diplomat secured so if you consent to a freeze in the number of ballistic missiles carry nuclear warheads
2-limiting the size of each superpowers nuclear delivery system
Environmental Protection Agency
A government organization by executive order to regulate pollution
Rachel Carson
Author of the exposé of pesticides, Silent Spring, and helped enact clean air and water laws
Clean air act
Law that established national standards for states, strict auto emission guidelines, and regulations
Watergate
Scandal the Nixon administration committed where hired “Goons” broke into the Democratic national headquarters
Pentagon papers
Secret government history documenting the mistakes and deceptions of government policymakers in dealing with Vietnam
Suez crisis
Egyptian president Nassar nationalized the Suez Canal
OPEC
Arab nations of Saudi Arabia, curly, Iraq, and Iran joined Venezuela to form an organizations of exporting oil
Sun belt
States from Florida to California with warmer climates, lower taxes, and economic opportunities
Domino Theory
If South Vietnam felt under communist control, one nation after another and south east Asia I would also fall
Malcolm X
Minister of the nation of Islam, urged blacks to claim their rights by any means necessary
