History Final

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1968 Democratic Convention

(Where? Who? Why did Johnson not run?)

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Chicago, Johnson vs. Humphrey, Johnson didn't run because he became very unpopular after Vietnam

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Nixon's 1968 Presidential Campaign Strategy

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I'm going to end the war with honor, I'm going to end the war with a secret plan

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Henry Kissinger

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Nixon's Secretary of State, foreign policy expert

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Balance of Power

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Kissinger's plan, If all countries are equal in power, then there would be no need for war

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Shuttle Diplomacy

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Kissinger's strategy of moving back and forth between nations in an attempt to arrange peace, do not bring counties together to do so

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H.R. Haldemann

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Nixon's chief of staff

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John Mitchell

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headed CREEP and very connected to Watergate scandal

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CREEP

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Committee to Re-elect the President

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Detente

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a relaxation of tension between US and Soviet Union

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SALT Treaty

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limiting nuclear weapons

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Daniel Ellsberg

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writer for NY Times, leaked the Pentagon Papers

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Carl Bernstein and Bob Wooodward

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uncovered Watergate scandal

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Executive Privilege

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right of the President to keep secretsq

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Archibald Cox

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special prosecutor of Watergate case; wanted tapes from Nixon, Nixon refused and fired him

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What was Gerald Ford's big mistake?

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Pardoning Richard Nixon

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Spiro Agnew

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Nixon's VP, resigned after scandal

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Arab-Israel War

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Egypt and Syria attacked Israel; we supported Israel

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OPEC

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Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

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CORE

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Committee of Racial Equality; congress, sit-ins, freedom rides

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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SCLC

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference; founded by MLK

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Black Panthers

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militant group that used intimidation to make sure that the blacks would not be victims of police brutality

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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peaceful civil rights activist

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Malcom X

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Muslim civil rights leader, encouraged violence rather than peace

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James Meredith

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first black student at the University of Mississippi

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Laurie Pritchett

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police chief in Albany who used police dogs against protestors

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The 1960 Presidential Election

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Kennedy and Nixon, Kennedy won b/c of debating skills

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Great Society

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term for Johnson's social problems

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Camelot

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term used to describe the royal feel of Kennedy's White House

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Russians putting nukes in Cuba

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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Kennedy had Cuban try to overthrow Castro and backed out of helping them; they failed

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The 1964 Presidential Campaign

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Johnson and Goldwater; Daisy commercial a big factor

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Stagflation

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high unemployment and high inflation

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Gulf of Tonkin

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resolution that gave Johnson huge war powers w/out having to go to Congress again

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Napalm

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jelly-like substance that burns uncontrollably

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Agent Orange

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herbicide that killed vegetation and exposed Viet Cong hiding spots

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My Lai

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huge massacre of S. Vietnamese citizens by Americans because they were thought to be Viet Cong

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Tet Offensive

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huge attack by N. Vietnamese to unsuspecting S. Vietnamese and American soldiers

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Cambodia/Vietnam War

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had trail that was used by N. Vietnamese to get into S. Vietnam; US saturation bombed a huge part of Cambodia

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Woodstock

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music/art fair in NY; 300,000 young hippies attended

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Kent State

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huge protest, National Guard was brought in, fired into crowd and killed 4/wounded 9

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Hippies

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people who rejected cultural norms and tried to look/live differently

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Counterculture

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hippie cultural movement in the 60's

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Ho Chi Minh

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communist leader of North Vietnam

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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leader put in charge of S. Vietnam by US

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Saigon

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capital of S. Vietnam

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Hanoi

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capital of N. Vietnam

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Anwar el-Sadat

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Leader of Egypt

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Menachin Began

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Prime minister of Israel

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Dissidents

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Soviet writers who opposed the action of their government

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Three Mile Island

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Partial nuclear meltdown in PA

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1980 election and fundamental shift in US Government

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Reagan wins against Carter, US moves to the way right

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Roe vs. Wade

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Made abortion legal

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Affirmative Action

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Quotas to equal out the races (schools/colleges, jobs)

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New Right

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Wide range of conservative groups

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Reaganomics

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Focuses on supply of goods, cut taxes to give more money to businesses to hire more workers

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Star Wars

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Reagan's idea to create a middle shield in space over US to destroy inbound nuclear weapons

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S&L Scandal

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When Reagan deregulated banks

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Fall of Soviet Union

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Soviets tried to keep up with Reagan, economy crumbled in process

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Bush-Dukakis election of 1988

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Bush ran nasty campaign

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Persian Gulf War of 1991

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Quick American victory over Vietnam

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LSD

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Most commonly used psychedelic drug in the 60's

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Watergate Scandal

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Scandal w/ Nixon building w/Cuban spies

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Reagan's presidency

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Hard on foreign policy ended the cold war

Moved country in very conservative way