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25 Cards in this Set
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Why did MLK chose Selma as the location to start a march on behalf of voting rights
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majority couldn't vote
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who were the freedom riders and what did they want
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a group of people that traveled into the south to draw attention to the south's refusal to intergrate bus terminals
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what did Nixon promise in the 1968 election to get southern support
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to put a southerner on the supreme court and to slow down desegregation
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what did evidence show in the watergate scandal
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that noxon ordered the cover-up
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who did nixon target in his promises to fight crime
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anti- war protestors
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what was nixon's new federalism policy
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revenue sharing bills between federa governemnt and the state
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what was nixons enemy list
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anyone a threat to his presidency
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what did the tapes reveal about nixon in regards to the watergate scandal
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ordered the cia to stop fbis investigation(cover-up)
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what argument did nixon use to avoid turning over the tapes regarding the watergate scandal
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interference with national security, executive privledge
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what did the SALT agreement encompass
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Srategic Arms Limitation Treaty- to reduce nuclear weapons and exchange scientific information
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what did carter impose an embargo on the soviet union
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because the soviet union invaded afganistan
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what is stagflation?
what is inflation |
-little movemnt in economy
-rise in the cost of goods |
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why did pres fords approval rating drop
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pardoned nixon
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what did the panama canal traty do?
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gave panama control of the canal
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revenue-sharing bills
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federal government could impose conditions on state because they relied to much on government
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warren burger
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a conservative judge
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detente
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a policy which attempts to relax or ease tensions between nations
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what was supply side economics
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lowered taxes
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what was reagans policy if deregulation
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cut off regulations and made the prices drop
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what did reagan believe in regards to massive military spending and the soviet union
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peace through strength
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what is reganomics
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increase interest rates and decrease taxes
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what is SDI
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satelites detect incoming missiles and destroy them
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whay did the UN go to war in the persian gulf
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iraq invaded kuwaitt
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perestrokia
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economic and governemnt reconstruction
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glasnost
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open discussion of political and social issues
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