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61 Cards in this Set
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Court decision ending segregation of public schools
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Montgomery bus boycott
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economic protest against segregated busing
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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MLKing Jr. civil rights organization
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Congress of Racial Equality
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civil rights organization formed 1942
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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civil rights organization for younger members
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Medgar Evers
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African-American civil rights leader murdered in his front yard
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Malcolm X
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civil rights activist, black Muslim, assassinated
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Stokely Carmichael
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civil rights activist, black power
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Black Panthers
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militant African-American organization
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Black Muslims
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black nationalist movement, aka Nation of Islam
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24th Amendment
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eliminated poll taxes
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Watts riots
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race riots in the summer of 1965
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De facto segregation
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separation of races “by fact” not by law
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Thurgood Marshall
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1st African-American Supreme Court justice, NAACP lawyer
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Ho Chi Minh
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communist leader of Vietnam
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Viet Cong
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communists in South Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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congressional action authorizing the president to take action in Vietnam
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Domino theory
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belief that allowing one country to become communist would lead to others
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Tet offensive
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1968 offensive by communists in Vietnam
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Kent State
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massacre of four college students at anti-war demonstration
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Pentagon Papers
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secret military information published by NY Times
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My Lai
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massacre of Vietnamese by US Army
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Vietnamization
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Nixon’s strategy of increasing South Vietnam’s role in the war
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Paris Accords
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peace negotiations to end US involvement in Vietnam
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Missile gap
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Kennedy’s assertion that the US had fallen behind in nuclear defense
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Miranda decision
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Court decision requiring a suspect be informed of their rights
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Gideon v. Wainright
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Court decision requiring an attorney be provided in felony cases
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New Frontier
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Kennedy’s domestic policy
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Peace Corps
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Kennedy program to promote peace in developing countries
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Berlin Wall
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separation of East and West Berlin
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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assassinated Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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placement of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba causing confrontation w/US
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Great Society
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Johnson’s domestic policy
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Medicare
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publicly funded health care for the elderly and disabled, part of Great Society
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Robert Kennedy
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Democratic candidate for president 1968, assassinated
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National Organization for Women
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feminist organization
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Equal Rights Amendment
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proposed amendment, failed to gather enough states for ratification
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New Federalism
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Nixon’s domestic policy to shift more responsibilities to state govt
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Revenue sharing
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Nixon’s policy of granting states federal funds
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Watergate
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conspiracy by Nixon supporters to steal Democrats campaign secrets
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Plumbers
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Nixon supporters who were to plug “leaks” in the govt
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Détente
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improved relations between the US and communist countries
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War Powers Act
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legislation to control president’s power to commit troops
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Henry Kissinger
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advisor to Nixon, secretary of state under Ford
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25th Amendment
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presidential succession
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26th Amendment
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18 year old right to vote
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Cesar Chavez
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leader of United Farm Workers, Latino-American rights leader
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Burger Court
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Supreme Court under the leadership of Warren Burger
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American Indian Movement
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Native American rights organization
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Arab oil embargo
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1973- Saudi’s cut oil supplies to US in response to war w/Israel
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OPEC
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mostly Arab oil producing nations
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Stagflation
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combination of inflation and stagnant economy
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SALT II
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treaty to limit nuclear weapons between US and Soviets, never ratified
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Palestinian Liberation Organization
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paramilitary organization representing Palestinians
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
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US embassy in Iran overran, US hostages held
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Reaganomics
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term describing Reagan’s economic policy
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Supply side economics
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similar to trickle down economics, Reagan policy
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Sandra Day O’Connor
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first woman Supreme Court Justice
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Three Mile Island
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nuclear power plant disaster in US
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Star Wars, SDI
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defense program to put weapons in space to counter nuclear missiles
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Geraldine Ferraro
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Vice-President candidate 1984
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