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flexible response
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the preparation of more conventional weapons versus atomic weapons. Kennedy felt that U.S, needed both a strong military program and atomic weapons to combat the forces of communism. He reasoned conventional weapons were essential, for atomic weapons were never used.
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Silent Spring
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The book is widely credited with launching the environmentalism movement in the West.
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Pentagon papers
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popular term for a 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the internal planning and policy decisions regarding the Vietnam War within the U.S. government. Kennedy and Nixons terms
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Immigration and Naturalization act of 1965
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abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924.
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evil empire
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a term used to describe those preferring an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the former Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities. applied to soviet union
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Civil Rights act 1964
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was landmark legislation in the United States that outlawed segregation in the US schools and public places
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Voting rights act 1965
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outlawed the requirement that would-be voters in the United States take literacy tests to qualify to register to vote, and it provided for federal registration of voters in areas that had less than 50% of eligible minority voters registered
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affirmative action
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promote education or employment
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Great society
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LBJ's reform. eliminatin of poverty and racial injustive
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Yom Kippur War
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Syria and Egypt, backed by Russia, led an all out attack on Israel in 1973 on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. This war between the Israelis and their neighboring countries spanned several years. There were frequent bombings and raids amongst the countries for oil.
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Fall of Saigon
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The Fall of Saigon (in Vietnamese: Sự kiện 30 tháng 4, or April 30 Incident), was the capture of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army (NVA) on April 30, 1975. Those sympathetic to the North Vietnamese hailed the event as the Liberation of Saigon. The event marked the end of the Second Indochinese War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam under Communist rule.
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Camp David Accords
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a place where the Egyptian leader Anwar el-Sadat and the Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin came together with Jimmy Carter. They discussed certain negotiations and tried to hammer out a framework for a peace treaty for the Middle East. It represented peace and harmony in the modern world.
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Afghanistan
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Russians invaded afghanistan. we thought it was wrong so we boycotted olympics in Moscow
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Watergate
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The scandal exposed the connection between the White House and the accused Watergate burglars who had raided the Democrats’ headquarters during the 1972 campaign. The election federal judge, Sirica, refused to accept the claim of those on trial that they had behaved on their own terms.
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Stagflation
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worsened american economy. prices rose wages remained same
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Vietnamization
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Nixon's decision to remove troops from Vietnam.
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Reaganomics
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President Reagan believed that the government should leave the economy alone. He hoped that it would run by itself. It was a return to the laissez faire theory of Adam Smith, yet Reagan expanded his theory by advocating supply-side economics as a method to solve the economic hardships.
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Iran Contra Scandal
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Us Pair Iran to control communism in so. america
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SALT
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Strategic Arms Limiations Treaty.
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