Unit 9 Significant Slideshow Flashcards

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1
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Title IX

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Passed to end gender discrimination in fed funded programs

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Vietnamization

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Nixons “secret plan” to achieve “peace with honor”

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3
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Who was the first president to visit communist China?

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Nixon

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4
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Stagflation

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High inflation with high unemployment

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5
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26th amendment

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Made 18 the legal voting age

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6
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Cesar Chavez

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Latin America equality leader

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Ruler of Iran 1979

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Watergate Scandal

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Involved break in of DC democratic headquarters

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9
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Which two Middle East events was Carter involved in?

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Camp David Accords and Iranian Hostage Crisis

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10
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Feminine Mystique Author

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Betty Friedan

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Students for Democratic Society platform

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Port Huron Statement

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12
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Tet offensive

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Televised, made war seem less winnable

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My Lai Massacre

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Fueled international resentment of US soldiers

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14
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LBJ used mysterious events to push what?

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Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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15
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“Great society”

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Legislation that mostly dealt with poverty and civil rights

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16
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24th amendment

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Outlawed poll taxes

17
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Civil rights act of 1964

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Segregation illegal in public facilities

18
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Voting rights act of 1965

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Made literacy tests illegal

19
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Unsafe at any speed

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Ralph Nader; book about speed limits and safety

20
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Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson; book about dangerous chemicals

21
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Immigration act of 1965

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Repealed discriminatory 1920s Quota Acts

22
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War powers act

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Limited the presidents power to wage war with out consent from leg branch