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17 Cards in this Set
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-book written by Betty friedan, starting the modern feminist movement
-told women that they could get jobs of their own and do much more with themselves |
The Feminine Mystique
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-book written by John Kenneth Galbraith condeming the rich standar of living with the public problems such as polluted air and garbage
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The Affluent Society
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-speech given by Nixon after allegations of having a secret slush fund
-revealed the new effects television had on politics |
Checkers Speech
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-book written by Gunnar Myrdal condeming the hypocracy of the fight for liberty and equality in other countries and racism in America
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The American Dilemma
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-Boycott of busses after Rosa Parks was imprisoned for not giving up her seat to a white man
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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-Supreme court during Eisenhower era which often decided with the civil rights movement
-Was the only branch of gov. doing this at the time |
Warren Court
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-School at which Eisenhower, although against civil rights, was forced to send the national guard to escort black children to school
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Little Rock Central High School
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-Method of refusing to leave segregated lunch counters until they were forced to shut down and the policy of segregation was changed
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Sit in movement
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-Internal improvement law which provided for thousands of interstate miles
-helped the move from the city into suburbia |
Interstate Highway Act
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-Secretay of State who wanted to "rollback" on communism
-cut military spending, but increased nuclear bomb building -realized that this policy would mean rapid retaliation from the victim of this bombing |
John Foster Dulles
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-Meeting at which it appeared that relations between the US and USSR were improving
-Khrushchev agreed with Eisenhower for arms reduction and publicly denounced Stalin's policies |
Spirit of Geneva
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-promised US economic help to the Middle East if threatened by Communism
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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OPEC
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-law designed to watch over labor union's bookeeping to keep from corruption
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Landrum-Griffin Act
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-law created that provided millions of dollars in loans to teach science and languages
-reflected the growing need for scientists during the arms race |
The National Defense and Education Act
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-meeting between Eisenhower and Khrushchev in which USSR spoke of evacuating Berlin
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Spirit of Camp David
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-occurance when a US spy plane was shot down over Soviet Russia
-this was an embarrassment, and the summit the very next day in Paris to discuss Berlin was ruined |
U-2 Incident
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