Unit 9 Significant Slideshow

Question 1

Title IX

Answer 1

Passed to end gender discrimination in fed funded programs

Question 2

Vietnamization

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Who was the first president to visit communist China?

Answer 3

Nixon

Question 4

Stagflation

Answer 4

High inflation with high unemployment

Question 5

26th amendment

Answer 5

Made 18 the legal voting age

Question 6

Cesar Chavez

Answer 6

Latin America equality leader

Question 7

Ayatollah Khomeini

Answer 7

Ruler of Iran 1979

Question 8

Watergate Scandal

Answer 8

Involved break in of DC democratic headquarters

Question 9

Which two Middle East events was Carter involved in?

Answer 9

Camp David Accords and Iranian Hostage Crisis

Question 10

Feminine Mystique Author

Answer 10

Betty Friedan

Question 11

Students for Democratic Society platform

Answer 11

Port Huron Statement

Question 12

Tet offensive

Answer 12

Televised, made war seem less winnable

Question 13

My Lai Massacre

Answer 13

Fueled international resentment of US soldiers

Question 14

LBJ used mysterious events to push what?

Answer 14

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Question 15

“Great society”

Answer 15

Legislation that mostly dealt with poverty and civil rights

Question 16

24th amendment

Answer 16

Outlawed poll taxes

Question 17

Civil rights act of 1964

Answer 17

Segregation illegal in public facilities

Question 18

Voting rights act of 1965

Answer 18

Made literacy tests illegal

Question 19

Unsafe at any speed

Answer 19

Ralph Nader; book about speed limits and safety

Question 20

Silent Spring

Answer 20

Rachel Carson; book about dangerous chemicals

Question 21

Immigration act of 1965

Answer 21

Repealed discriminatory 1920s Quota Acts

Question 22

War powers act

Answer 22

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

Question 23

NAFTA

Answer 23

North American free trade agreement

Question 24

Brady bill

Answer 24

Strengthened gun laws

Question 25

Bush v Gore decision

Answer 25

The denial of dems plea for a total manual recount

Question 26

Patriot act

Answer 26

Increased govs power o spy on individuals