Unit 9 Vocab Part One (mid 1960s-2000s)

Question 1

The Great Society

Answer 1

LBJ, dealt with mainly poverty and civil rights

Question 2

“Long Hot Summers”

Answer 2

Riots in black neighborhoods in the 60s

Question 3

Malcolm X

Answer 3

Leader of Black Muslims, opposed King’s strategy of nonviolent discrimination

Question 4

SNCC

Answer 4

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, protest racial discrimination w/o violence

Question 5

Black Power

Answer 5

African Americans need to establish control of their political and economic lives

Question 6

Affirmative Action

Answer 6

meant to open access to education and employment for people who have experienced discrimination

Question 7

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 7

Invalidated use of any test or device to deny the vote

Question 8

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 8

segregation illegal in all public facilities

Question 9

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Answer 9

authorized LBJ to wage war

Question 10

New Left

Answer 10

Sought to end poverty, racism and Cold War politics

Question 11

Immigration Act of 1965

Answer 11

Abolished the 1920s Quota Act

Question 12

My Lai Massacre

Answer 12

Mass killing of unarmed civilians in South Vietnam

Question 13

Tet Offensive

Answer 13

turning point, televised and made war seem less winnable

Question 14

Vietnamization

Answer 14

US troops were taken out of Vietnam and Nixon replaced them w newly trained South Vietnamese troops

Question 15

Counterculture

Answer 15

Rebellion against “the establishment,” Took form of nonconformity, hippies

Question 16

Students for a Democratic Society

Answer 16

Drafted Port Huron statement (leftist), wanted to rid American society of poverty, racism and violence

Question 17

The Feminine Mystique

Answer 17

Challenged gender roles, sparked second wave of feminism, Betty Friedan

Question 18

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 18

Written to guarantee equal rights for women, never passed

Question 19

César Cháves

Answer 19

created UFW to help farmers get more pay and safer working conditions

Question 20

Roe v Wade

Answer 20

Upheld abortion rights for women

Question 21

Title IX

Answer 21

Passed to end gender discrimination in federal funded programs

Question 22

War Powers Act

Answer 22

Repealed Tonkin Gulf, limited presidents ability to wage war without consent

Question 23

Camp David Accords

Answer 23

Peace deal between Egypt and Israel

Question 24

Iran-Hostage Crisis

Answer 24

52 citizens were held hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran

Question 25

Stagflation

Answer 25

when high inflation is coupled with high unemployment

Question 26

Détente

Answer 26

Foreign policy created by Nixon, meant to relax tensions between US and the Communist World

Question 27

Three Mile Island

Answer 27

human and mechanical failure occurred and created an escape of radiation

Question 28

“graying of America”

Answer 28

aging of the American population

Question 29

“Star Wars”

Answer 29

space-based nuclear defense system that was proposed by Reagan

Question 30

Operation Desert Storm

Answer 30

United Nations coalition launched this to liberate Kuwait

Question 31

NAFTA (Clinton)

Answer 31

eliminated all tariffs between the USA, Canada and Mexico