History Final

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Bilingual Education Act

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Immigrants in the mid-1960s began to see that their children weren’t receiving equal treatment and enriched instruction in the language so this was passed to receive authorized funds for alternative programs

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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made public racial discrimination illegal including in hotels, schools and jobs. This law also strengthened federal voting rights.

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Meritor Savings vs. Uinson

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ruled that sexual harassment in the workplace, even if it didn’t effect a promotion, loss, violates the Title VI of the civil rights act.

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Nixon Doctrine

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made it to where the US would no longer act as a military hero in fighting communist rebellion in the 3rd world countries.

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Landrum-Griffon Act

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allowed the federal government to oversee union affairs

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SDI

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Strategic Defensive Initiative

Technological system that would forever protect the US from assault by nuclear missiles.

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SALT I & II

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allowed each country 2 ABM systems. one to protect its capital city and the other to defend a field of offensive missiles, later ratified

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yuppies

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"Young Urban Professionals"

upwardly mobile men and women with degrees in law or business.

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Cuban Revolution of 1959

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Fidel Castro gathered strength and in Jan. 1959 overthrew Cuba's current leader by succeeding in taking power

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Alliance for Progress

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$20 billion program of loans for economic development to which the hemispheric nations pledged adherence

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Robert Kenedy

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ran against the war with calls for peace negotiations

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George Wallace's run for presidency

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nominee for the new american independent party (no chance of winning) exploited the backlash in the N and S, attacked feminist, welfare mothers, hippies, radicals, school integrations, antiwar demonstrator and liberal intellectuals.

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Ronald Reagan

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Reagan's platform was tax cuts, balanced budget, boister national defense and reassert american power in the world.

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New Right

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Social and Cultural issues moving towards republican

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Birmingham Campaign

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movement organized by the southern christian leadership conference to bring attention to the unequal treatment to black americans endured in Birmingham, AL

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school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas

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group of nine african american students were able to attend little rock central high school after President Eisenhower intervened.

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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Conference

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started with student meetings in support of the American Civvil Rights Movement; participated in sit-ins and freedom rides; gained a lot of support from the north

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Sandra Day O'Connor

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appointed by Ronald Reagan and was the 1st female member of the Supreme Court in 1981.

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Regents of the V of C vs. Bakke

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Supreme Court decision on permissible scope factors in an admission program

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Roth vs. US

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redefined the constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the 1st amendment.

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Keri Starr and the Lewinski Scandal

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investigated the extramarital affair that Bill Clinton had with Monica Lewinski; filed Starr Report which alleged Bill Clinton had lied about existence of the affair during a sworn deposition that opened the door for his impeachment,

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the "Kitchen debate"

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between Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev debated their respective economic systems: Capitalism and communism

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IRCA of 1986

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made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants. But this did grant amnesty to certain illegal immigrants who entered the US before Jan 1, 1982

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Greensboro sit-ins

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started with 4 american students who sat at the counter of Woolworth's store even though it was only for whites, they were refused service but after day 4 of this peaceful protest, there were over 300 students participating

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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gave the US president Lyndon B. Johnson authorization without a formal declaration of war by congress for the use of conventional military force in S.E. Asia

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detente

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general easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the 1970s

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Deregulation of the airline industry

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removed government control over fares, routes and market entry from commercial aviation

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teach-ins

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general education forum on any complicated issue (usually political) do not limit the discussion to a specific frame of time or an academic scope of the topic.

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"supply side" economics

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developed during the 1970s in response to the failure of Keynesian economic policy and to stabilize Western economics during the wake of the oil crisis in 1973

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stagflation

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when a countrys inflation rate is high and unemployment rate is high; happened in 1970s due to the oil crisis of 1973 and energy shortages during Nixon's presidency

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START I

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July 31, 1991
treaty signed between the US and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms

strategic arms reduction treaty

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AIDS

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recognized in 1981 as the root cause of several diseases, breakout was most commonly between homosexual men. attacks the immune system, making people vulnerable to one or more of these wasting assults. Virus enters the body by transfusion with infected blood, drug injection, sexual intercourse.

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watergate

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washington office and apt. complex that lent its name to the 1972-1974 scandal of the Nixon admin; when his knowledge of the break-in at the watergate and subsequent coverup was revealed, Nixon resigned the presidency under threat of impeachment.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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passed in the wake of MLK's Selma to montgomery March, it authorized federal protection of the right to vote and permitted federal enforcement of minority voting rights in individual counties, mostly in the south

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Tet Offensive

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surprise attack by the Viet Cong and N. Vietnamese during the Vietnamese New Year of 1968; turned american public opinion strongly against the war in vietnam

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Title IX

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Part of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972 that required colleges to engage in "affirmative Action" for women

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Sputnik

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1st artificial satellite to orbit the earth; launched October 4, 1957 by Soviet Union

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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civil rights organization founded in 1957 by MLK Jr. and other civil rights leaders.

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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hoping to inspire a revolt against Fidel Castro, the CIA sent 1500 ciban exiles to invade their homeland on April 17, 1961 but the mission was a spectacular failure

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Brown Vs. Topeka Board of Education

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US Supreme Court decision that struck down racial segregation in public education and declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional

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Bush vs. Gore

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US supreme court case that determined the winner of the disputed 2000 presidential election

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Civil Rights Act of 1957

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1st federal civil rights law since Reconstruction; established the Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights division of the Dept. of Justice

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Moral Majority

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the name of which became synonymous with the religious right conservative evangelical protestants who helped ensure President Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory

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New Left

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Radical Youth protest movement of the 1960s names by leader Tom Hayden to distinguish it from the old left of the 1930s

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NAFTA

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North American Free Trade Agreement
Approved in 1993, with canada and mexico allowed goods to travel across their borders free of tariffs; critics argued that American Workers would lose their jobs to cheaper Mexican labor

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Sparked by Rosa Parks arrest on 12/1/1955, a successful year-long boycott protesting segregation on city buses; led by the reverend MLK

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Miranda vs. Arizona

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US Supreme Court decision required police to advise persons in custody of their rights to legal counsel and against self-incrimination

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"Great Society" Programs

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term coined by P. Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 state of the Union address in which he proposed legislation to address problems of voting rights, poverty, diseases, education, immigration, and the environment

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OPEC

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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties
American shipment of arms to Israels nevertheless angered the oil producing arab states. they embargoed all shipments of crude oil to the US and E. Europe.

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Countercultural Revolution of 1960s

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expressed skepticism of science and reason and many of their institutionalized works particularly corporate degradation of the environment and the military high technology destructiveness

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Nicaraguan "Contras"

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this provided the end to the war, the release of political prisoners, enlarged freedom of the press and national elections of the next year. General Manuel Noriega helped get arms to the Contras in Nicaragua