unit 9 Flashcards
Attacks by North Vietnamese against U.S, installations were called what?
The Tet Offensive
What theory caused the US to interfere with Vietnam?
Domino Effect
What ensured that women would be treated equally in the work place?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Who was considered the “Bringer of Light”?
Ho Chi Minh
Which president resigned?
Richard Nixon
What Titleguarenteed girls’ participation in public school activities?
IX
The natural assocaiton for busing is considered _______.
Forced Integration
Making decisions based on a person’s gender is called what?
Gender Bias
OPEC controls what?
Oil Industry
Who was the author of Silent Spring?
Rachel Carson
What was signed in 1970 by President Nixon?
National Environmental Policy Act
What has been critcized as reverse discrimination?
Affirmative Action
Who sued for the right to protest silently?
Tinker
What had a major affect on abortion cases?
Roe v. Wade
Watergate was naturally associated with which political party?
Republicans
Who was the author os The Feminine Mystique?
Betty Friedan
The American G.I. Forum was founded by ______.
Hector Garcia
Watergate was naturally associated with which political party?
Republicans
The _________ Amendment failed to be ratified.
Equal Rights
_______ testified that President Nixon knew about the Watergate break-in.
John Dean
UFWA stands for _______ and is a farm labor union.
United Farm Workers of America
Alcatraz and ___________ were sites of Native American protests.
Wounded Knee
The ___________ Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
Twenty-sixth
________ is the movement that supports environmental causes.
Ecology
_______ refers to the effort to preserve the freedom of countries by stopping the spread of communism.
Containment
The ___________ were North Vietnamese sympathizers in South Vietnam.
Viet Cong
The automobile industry caused ___________ to become an important export of southeastern Asia.
rubber
_____ is making decisions on the basis of a person’s sex.
Gender bias
Was Roe v. Wade a minority or educational issue?
minority
______ organized farm laborers.
Dolores Huerta
France placed several nations together in southeastern Asia to create French __________.
Indochina
The ____________ were the regular army of North Vietnam.
Vietminh
_______ means the type of segregation that occurs based upon where people live.
Natural segregation
Minority issues in the 1970s included ________, housing, and discrimination in the work place.
education
A _____ is a place where people live together by cooperation without the need for private property.
commune
She chaired the President’s Commission on the Status of Women.
Elenor Roosevelt
__________ of the Educational Amendments guaranteed that girls could participate in public school activities.
Title IX
His assassination threw the Democratic Party into chaos.
robert f Kenedy
He ended U.S. participation in the war in Vietnam.
richard nixon
He suffered from a “credibility gap” in his Presidency.
lyndon b johnson
The ________ War started on an Israeli holiday.
Yom Kippur
______ wrote Silent Spring.
Rachel Carson
__________ was the process of turning over the defense of South Vietnam to the South Vietnamese.
Vietnamization
Who’s nickname means “Bringer of Light?”
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnamese troops were resupplied by the ____________ Trail.
Ho Chi Minh
France placed several nations together in southeastern Asia to create French __________.
Indochina
______ organized farm laborers.
Dolores Huerta
Was Roe v. Wade a minority or educational issue?
minority
_____ is making decisions on the basis of a person’s sex.
Gender bias
The automobile industry caused ___________ to become an important export of southeastern Asia.
rubber
The ___________ were North Vietnamese sympathizers in South Vietnam.
Viet Cong
_____ refers to the effort to preserve the freedom of countries by stopping the spread of communism.
Containment
______ is the Vietnamese New Year.
Tet
________ is the movement that supports environmental causes.
Ecology
The ___________ Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
Twenty-sixth
Alcatraz and ___________ were sites of Native American protests.
Wounded Knee
UFWA stands for _______ and is a farm labor union.
UFWA stands for _______ and is a farm labor union.
_______ testified that President Nixon knew about the Watergate break-in.
John Dean
The _________ Amendment failed to be ratified.
Equal Rights
