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64 Cards in this Set
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JFK
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1960 vs. Nixon. Urban renewal, mental ret., moon!, peace corps, bay of bigs, alliance for progress, cuban missile crisis
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LBJ
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Great society, civil rights, LARGER THAN LIFE, progressive dem., johnson treatment, NO MORE POVERTY
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Great Society
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LBJ, Food Stamps, headstart, medicare, medicaid, appalachian devel., nat'l endowments
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Medicare/ Medicaid
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medical benefits for seniors, aid- more for those unable to pay
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OEO
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Office of Equal Opportunity- foodstamps & headstart
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Headstart
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afterschool care, preschool, ready to read!
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Non Violent Resistance
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being willing to break the law for a higher good, get arrested for it. (boycotts, sit ins, etc.)
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Greensboro Sit-ins
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restaurants
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James Meredith
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Integrated U. of missis., killed
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"Freedom Rides"
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1961 attemps to integrate buses
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Martin Luther King and the Letter from Birmingham Jail
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why aren't you here with me?
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March on Washington
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1963, focord (at time) # for a march
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"Freedom Summer"
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civil rights workers working in south (* Miss) for black voting (reg + participation)- violent white reaction, three murdered.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Protection of right to vote, use troops!
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Affirmative Action
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civil rights act of 1964, match hiring to percentage of pop
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Watts
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brutally attacked by police, starts riots in LA
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Malcom X
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violent muslim black pride group
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Black Panthers
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black power, violence, militancy, special dress, armed
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Thurgood Marshall
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q
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Bay of Pigs
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Cuba- overthrow castro (US) oops, he was waiting for us...
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Berlin Wall
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goes up in 1961 to keep EG's out of w. berlin (SU ordered)
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cuban missile crisis
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U2 pics show cuba has missiles, TENSION, almost war, blockade, SU agrees to take out missiles if US says won't invade Cuba, and will take out of turkey
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gulf of tonkin resolution
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uses to declare war (lbj)
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domino theory
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Ho Chi Minh
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led communist n. vietnaman
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Viet Cong
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South viet. rebels
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Escalation
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wear them down and win with superior weapons/numbers
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Tet Offensive
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Looked like war was ending, then n. viet/viet kong launched HUGE offensive vs. US and S. Viet
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MLK JR & Assasination
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1968, american cities explode
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Robert F. Kennedy & assasination
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sirhan sirhan, islamic man insulted by "anti-islamic" remarks
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George Wallace
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super conservative 3rd party cand. vs. nixon and humphrey.
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Richard Nixon
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wins in 1968, detente, salt, covert cia, no DDT, epa, liberal court, watergate
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SDS
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Students for a dem. society, bomb those supporting war, weatherman faction
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Hippies & Counterculture
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drugs, free love, etc.
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Haight Ashbury & flower power
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summer of love! 1967. san francisco
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Indian Militancy
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to reclaim land
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Cesar Chavez
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United Farm Workers
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Gay Liberation
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nuff said
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Betty Friedan
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feminine mystique, radical feminism
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New Feminism
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radical rejection of all traditional female roles (family, children, relationships, etc.)
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Roe v. Wade
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allows abortions
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ERA
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made it in 1972, failed again for rat. in 1982 because people were scared of how it would change social roles
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Rachel Carson
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"silent springs" about pesticides (DDT and bird deaths)
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Earth Day
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april 22, 1970
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Exxon Valdez
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largest oil spill, off coast of alaska, huge damage
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My Lai
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massacre, killed everyone in village, innocent, covered up for years
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Agent Orange
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Get rid of veg. so soldiers can see, CANCER
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Combodian Incursion
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secret invasion of cambodia to get rid of "Ho Chi Minh Trail" - - directly leads to kent state/jackson state, etc.
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Kent State and Jackson State
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kent- 4 college students killed (anti war protests)
jackson- 2 AA students killed |
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Peace with Honor
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primary goal of nixon- bring some home, fair draft (lottery)
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The fall of saigon
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1975
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detente and nixon's visit to china
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thaw in cold war tensions, ping pong diplomacy, recognition of people's republic of china
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Gideon v Wainright
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public defenders
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Miranda v Arizona
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"you have the right to remain silent"
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Swann v. charlotte board of education
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legalized "bussing" to even out ratios in schools
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The Watergate Crisis
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break in to place bugs, cover up, downfall, avoids impeachment by resigning
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OPEC oil embargo
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makes US realize how dependent it is on foreign oil
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Henry Kissinger
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sec of state for nixon and ford, peace negotiated with vietnam, etc., VERY involved, very controversial
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Gerald Ford
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school bussing, nixon pardoned, recession
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Jimmy Carter
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dem: human rights and environmental concerns
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Camp David Accords
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israel and egypt find peace
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Panama Canal Treaty
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Jimmy Carter tries to give control of canal to panama, barely successful
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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iranian leader expelled, comes to US to hospital, (safe), new leader's mob takes US embassadors in Tehran hostage to get him back, 53 hostages remained in embassy over a year
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Three Mile Island
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