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64 Cards in this Set
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Im the first woman to serve on the Us Supreme Court |
Sandra Day O'Connor |
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I was assasinated by sirhan Sirhan five years after the assasination of my older brother |
Robert Kennedy |
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I am a US President my supporters tell me that they like ike |
Eisenhower |
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When i said read my lips no new taxes i didnt realle mean it |
George Bush I |
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Im a black woman from Montgomery Alabama, i was arrested in 1955 for not giving up my bus seat to a white person |
Rosa Parks |
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Im an islamic Fundamentalist. My followers overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979 |
Ayatollah Khomeini |
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Im the right wing christian founder of the moral majority |
Jerry falwell |
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By foundign Microsoft in 1975 i helped to advance the computer revolution |
Bill gates |
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In 1969 i became the first man to walk on the moon |
Neil Armstrong |
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After my husband stepped down as president, i became a Democratic senator from New York |
Hillary Clinton |
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Im the conservative Arizona Senator whom Johnson defeated in the presidential election of 1964, In my opinion, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. |
Barry Goldwater |
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After running unsuccessfully for president against Clinton, I quit the senate and started appearing in ads for Viagra |
Bob Dole |
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Im the Republican House Speaker whose opponents chanted, Boot Newt |
Newt Gingrich |
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Im the president who fired General MacArthur when he threatened to start World War III |
Harry S. Truman |
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During my tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the court struck down racial segregation and religious prayers in public schools |
Earl Warren |
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Im the evil iraqi dictator whom Norman Schwarzkopf defeated in Desert Storm |
Saddam Hussein |
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When i said "I am not a crook" I was lying |
Richard Nixon |
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I am the Demagogic Republican Senator from Wisconsin who claimed that the government was full of communists |
Joseph McCarthy |
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When i became president i pardoned Richard Nixon |
Gerald Ford |
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Im the movie star who became president of the US |
ROnald Reagan |
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I became president when JFK was shot |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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I was sexually harassed by clarence Thomas |
Anita Hill |
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Im the dimwitted vice president of the first President Bush. I cant spell potato |
Dan Quayle |
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I did not have sex with that woman |
Bill Clinton |
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Im the Democratic governor from Massachusetts who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1988 |
Michael Dukakis |
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I was presdient during rhe Cuban missile Crisis |
JFK |
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Im the long term FBI Director who liked to wear womens clothing |
J. Edgar Hoover |
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My drunken driving cost Mary Jo Kopechne her life at Chappaquiddick |
Ted Kennedy |
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I was a leader of the Soviet Union. While I was in power, the whole communist system in Eastern Europe fell apart |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
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I am the Korean War General who threatened to start WWIII truman fired me |
Douglas MacArthur |
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Im the US VP who urged George Bush II to invade Iraq. I also shot a man on a hunting trip |
Dick Cheney |
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Before i became president i was a millionaire peanut farmer from Plains Georgia |
Jimmy Carter |
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Im the prominent child care specialist who became an anti Vietnam War Activist in the 60s |
Benjamin Spock |
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I chased the capitalist pig, Fulgencio batista, out of Cuba in 1958 |
Fidel Castro |
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Im the surgeon general who intiated the fight against AIDS. |
C. Everett Koop |
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Im a prominent Protestant evangelist. |
Billy Graham |
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Abu Ghraib Prison |
During the war in Iraq that began in March 2003, personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.[1]These violations included physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder.[2][3][4][5] The abuses came to widespread public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse by CBS News in April 2004. The incidents received widespread condemnation both within the United States and abroad, although the soldiers received support from some conservative media within the United States.[6][7] |
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Camp David Accords |
The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.[1] The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. The second of these frameworks (A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel) led directly to the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty. Due to the agreement, Sadat and Begin received the shared 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. The first framework (A Framework for Peace in the Middle East), which dealt with the Palestinian territories, was written without participation of the Palestinians and was condemned by the United Nations. |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.[1] kruschev placed missile here to deter future invasions after the failed bay of pigs invasion |
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. |
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Black Panthers |
was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966the Black Panther Party's core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California. |
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Contras |
label given to the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing militant groups that were active from 1979 to the early 1990s in opposition to the left-wing, socialist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua. From an early stage, the rebels received financial and military support from the United States government, and their military significance decisively depended on it. After US support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration covertly continued it. These covert activities culminated in the Iran–Contra affair. |
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Great Society |
set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation were launched during this period. The program and its initiatives were subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s and years following. The Great Society in scope and sweep resembled the New Deal domestic agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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Stonewall Inn |
site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for gay and lesbian rights in the United States. The Stonewall riots were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 |
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Love Canal |
Love Canal in Niagara Falls NY attracted national attention for the public health problem originated from the massive dumping of toxic waste on the grounds. This event displaced numerous families, leaving them with long-standing health issues and symptoms of high red blood cell counts and leukemia. Consequently, the federal government passed the Superfund law. The resulting cleanup operation under the Superfund law demolished the neighborhood, |
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Moral Majority |
The Moral Majority was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell and associates, and dissolved in the late 1980s. It played a key role in the mobilization of conservative Christians as a political force and particularly in Republican presidential victories throughout the 1980s. The Moral Majority sought to mobilize conservative Americans to become politically active on issues they thought were important. |
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1968 Democratic National Convention |
The 1968 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. As PresidentLyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek re-election, the purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate for the office.Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine were nominated for President and Vice President, respectively. |
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Oklahoma City federal building |
April 19, 1995. Carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing destroyed one-third of the building, killed 168 people,[1] and injured more than 680 others.This was the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil until the September 11 attacks six years later, and it still remains as the deadliest domestic terrorism incident in United States history. As a result of the bombing, the U.S. Congress passed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which tightened the standards for habeas corpus in the United States,[16] as well as legislation designed to increase the protection around federal buildings to deter future terrorist attacks. |
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John Birch Society |
a conservative advocacy group supporting anti-communism and limited government.[2][3][4] It has been described as a radical right and far-right organization. Businessman and founder Robert W. Welch, Jr. (1899–1985) developed an organizational infrastructure in 1958 of chapters nationwide. Its main activity in the 1960s, said Rick Perlstein, "comprised monthly meetings to watch a film by Welch, followed by writing postcards or letters to government officials linking specific policies to the Communist menace". |
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Supply side economics (Reaganomics) |
Supply-side economics is a macroeconomic theory[1][2] that argues economic growth can be most effectively created by investing in capital and by lowering barriers on the production of goods and services. It was started by economist Robert Mundell during the Ronald Reagan administration. According to supply-side economics, consumers will then benefit from a greater supply of goods and services at lower prices; furthermore, the investment and expansion of businesses will increase the demand for employees and therefore create jobs. |
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Birthers |
A person who doubts the lgitimacy of Barack Obamas presidency based on a conspiracy theory that Obama is not a natural-born US Citizen |
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New Democrats |
a relatively "centrist" ideological faction within the Democratic Party that emerged after the victory of Republican George H. W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election. Describing themselves as "centrist", they are an economically right-wing and "Third Way" faction which dominated the party for around 20 years |
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N.O.W. |
is an American feminist organization founded in 1966. The founders were frustrated with the way in which the federal government was not enforcing the new anti-discrimination laws. Even after measures like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers were still discriminating against women in terms of hiring women and unequal pay with men. |
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The Pentagon Papers |
The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. As the Vietnam War dragged on and the U.S. military presence in South Vietnam increased to more than 500,000 troops by 1968, the military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (who had worked on the study) came to oppose the war, and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers should be more widely available to the American public. He secretly photocopied the report and in March 1971 gave the copy to The New York Times, which subsequently published a series of articles based on the report’s findings. Amid the national and international uproar that followed, the federal government tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon Papers on grounds of national security. |
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Silent Majority |
The silent majority is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly.[1] The term was popularized by U.S. PresidentRichard Nixon in a November 3, 1969, speech in which he said, "And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support."[2] In this usage it referred to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time, who did not join in the counterculture, and who did not participate in public discourse. |
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Warren Court |
The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States during the period when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice. Warren led a liberal majority that used judicial power in dramatic fashion, to the consternation of conservative opponents. The Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways.[1]The court was both applauded and criticized for bringing an end to racial segregation in the United States, incorporating the Bill of Rights (i.e. including it in the 14th Amendment Due Process clause), and ending officially sanctioned voluntary prayer in public schools. The period is recognized as the highest point in judicial power that has receded ever since, but with a substantial continuing impact. |
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1st African American SC Justice |
Marshall |
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Cuban Dictator overthrown by Castro in the 1950s |
Batista |
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Weathermen |
Students for democratic society, thought violence was the way to their goals and were essentially terrorists in the 1960s |
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Bakke Case |
Denied Entrance to school in Texas, case surrounding affirmative action |
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Robert Goddard |
Invented the rocket |
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Walter Cronkite |
Chief Anchor for CBS News, very popular |
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George Wallace |
Segregationist, governor of Alabama runs for president in 1972 |
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Diggers |
Radical 60s, free love, freedom for everything, radical hippies |
