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77 Cards in this Set
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Who were the black panthers? |
A black nationalist organization |
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Goals of the black panther party? |
Dealt with discrimination against blacks with violence |
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Policy towards communism |
The cold war policy, a way of preventing the spread of communism |
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What was Title XI and who was it made for? |
Banning of sex discrimination in school institutions. This was made for women |
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Little Rock Crisis |
A racially segregated school by orval fabulous |
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Great Society and it's goal? |
LBJ's way goal to turn the US into a great society by improving lives |
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Who ran during the election of 1964 |
LBJ won against Barry Goldwater |
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Iron curtian |
An imaginary border dividing Europe into two |
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Cesar Chavez |
Demanded increased wages and better working conditions |
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Dolores Huerta |
Worked with Chavez and helped to expand woman's rights |
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Hector Perez Garcia |
Leader of the chicano movement |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
All different kinds of threats of nuclear war |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
prohibited discrimination based on race\color |
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Martin Luther Kings Goals |
Wanted to stop discrimination |
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Affirmative Action |
How the nation should treat African Americans, other people of color and women |
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Bay Of Pigs Invasion |
trained cuban exiles to invade cuba |
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Berlin Airlift |
Gave supplies by air to western Berlin |
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Joseph McCarthy |
Exposed red scare |
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Voting rights Act |
prohibits racial discrimination in voting |
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Neil Armstrong |
First man to step foot on the moon |
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Tinker VS Des Moines |
told kids they couldn't wear armbands
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Sweatt VS Painter |
"separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation |
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Brown VS Board of Education |
separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional |
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Plessy VS Ferguson |
State segregation laws |
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goals of N.O.W |
National organization for women |
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Domain Theory |
IF on country became communist others would follow |
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Why did the US get involved with vietnam? |
We did not want the spread of communism |
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Gulf of Tonkin |
Told Johnson he could take any measure to maintain peace |
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Migration Patterns during WWll |
The African American's move to the US |
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Sputnik |
the first satellite launched by the soviet union |
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HUAC |
House un-american activities committee, created to uncover citizens with communist or nazi ties s |
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26th amendment |
18 year olds are now able to vote |
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Warsaw pact |
formed by NATO |
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Gulf War |
Kuwait was liberated |
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Jackie Robinson |
first african american to play baseball |
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Ho Chi Minh |
vietnamese communist that was president |
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Vietcong |
a democratic liberation front during vientam war |
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Tet Offensive |
Largest Military Campaign of Vietnam |
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Roy Benavidez |
was a sargant in the army and won a medal of honor |
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Vietnamization |
Nixon's policy of getting out of the war |
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War Powers Resolution |
federal law intended to check the presidents power |
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Richard Nixon |
involved in watergate scandal |
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Phyllis Schlafly |
outspoken critic of womens liberation |
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Environmental Protection Agency |
set air and water pollution standards |
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Endangered species act |
regulated wildlife |
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Detente |
Relaxing of the tensions |
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Watergate Scandal |
a way nixon was exposed |
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Gerald Ford |
took nixon presidency after nixon |
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OPEC |
Organization of petroleum |
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Helsinki Accords |
US, Canada and soviet sign an agreement to protect cuban rights |
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Jimmy Carter |
took fords presidency |
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Camp David Accords |
israel and Egypt rebuilt an agreement created by carter |
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Iran Hostage Crisis |
american hostages were taken |
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Newt Gingrich |
an American politician and political consultant |
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Ronald Reagan |
created reaganomics |
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Run belt |
no manufacturing |
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Peace through strength |
a way of keeping peace |
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Sandra Day O'Connor |
first woman to ever be in supreme court |
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NAFTA |
North american free trade agreement |
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NRA |
national rifle association that promoted riffle use |
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Heritage Foundation |
The "Think Tank" |
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Moral Majority |
composed fundamentalists and christians |
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Iran Contra Affair |
exchange of weapons |
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Contract with america |
a way to try and get rid of republicans |
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George HW Bush |
president and father of george bush |
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Persian Gulf War |
salaam invaded kuwait |
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Bill Clinton |
a huge scandal happened |
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Clintons impeachment |
perjury, and the second being obstruction of justice. |
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Bill Gates |
Made Computer software |
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Sam Walton |
creator of walmart |
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Robert Johnson |
writer of blues music |
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Lionel Sosa |
created agencies for hispanics |
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Al Gore |
ran against Bush |
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Al-Queda |
terrorist group |
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Taliban |
controls the government |
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War on terror |
TSA checks in airports bc of terrorists |
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Sonia Sotomayor |
first hispanic woman in supreme court |
