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14 Cards in this Set
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Flexible Response |
Military and nonmilitary options to respond to crisis and meet hostile actions with a proportional reaction without full out nuclear war |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
13 day stand off, Soviet installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, US instated a naval blockade and military force if necessary; Khrushchev removed missiles if America didn't invade |
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Warren Court |
Earl Warren as chief justice (Brown vs. Board), expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and federal power |
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Counter Culture |
1960s antiestablishment culture avoiding mainstream society: "sex, drugs, and rock & roll" |
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New Left |
political movement for civil rights, gay rights, abortion, gender roles, and drugs; students for a Democratic Society and Young Intellectuals |
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Domino Theory |
Eisenhower's theory that if Vietnam fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would also collapse |
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Nixon Doctrine |
US would remain in Asia but shift some military containment burdens to other allies, look for negotiations to contain soviet power instead of only nuclear deterrence |
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Tet Offensive |
NV and VC launched attacks on cities in SV to force US to decrease support of Saigon regime, news coverage upset Americans and the loss started the slow American withdrawal from Vietnam |
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Crisis of the 1970s |
Petrolium shortages and elevated prices, 1973 Yom Kippur war: OPEC oil embargo bc US supported Israel= stagflation (high unemployment and inflation, stock market crashes |
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Silent Majority |
Nixon's fellow small town ordinary laborers, modest roots form middle-class family, gained silent majority votes from humble beginnings |
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Moral Majority |
political group in the 1970s to further a conservative and religious agenda: allowance of prayer in school and strict abortion laws |
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Supply-side Economics |
economic growth can be most effectively created by investing in capital and by lowering barriers on the production of goods and services |
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outsourcing |
obtaining goods or services from an outside or foreign supplier, especially in place of internal source |
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Iran Contra |
not approved by congress, supplying Iran with weapons in exchange for hostages |
