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17 Cards in this Set
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The Great Society
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social reforms for LBJ to eliminate racial injustice and poverty
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Counterinsurgency
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Government tries to stop a revolt
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Gulf of Tonkin
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authorizing Johnson to take necessary measures to prevent attack on US
-LBJ uses it to wage war |
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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sustained bombing campaign followed by ground war
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Tet Offensive
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Military Campaign from Peoples Republic of Vietnam against South Vietnam
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Johnson War on Poverty
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-largest increase in Social program funding since New Deal
-educational assistance -Medicare/Medicade -Hosing an dUrban development |
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Tom Hayden
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Port Huron statement
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Tommie Smith and John Carlos
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1968 Olympic athletes
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1968 Democratic National Convention
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Yippies disruption
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Yippies
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Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin
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Pentagon Papers
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7,000 pages of classified documents that detailed activity is South Nam
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Watergate
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all convicts were connected to president Nixon
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Deep distrust of Government
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-illegal activities
-dirty tricks -loss of respect for Presidency -investigated journalism rebirth |
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Culture
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Birth control
Griswold v. Connecticut Roe v. Wade |
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Gerald Ford
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Foreign car influx
Government spending Energy Crisis - US = 6% of world Pop and 33% oil use |
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Jimmy Carter
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Israel-Egypt Peace Accord
Iranian Hostage Crisis |
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Ronald Reagan
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-optimism
-return to cold war -small government -moral majority |
