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Election of 1960
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Defense
JFK and NIxON First time televised debates |
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Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country
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JFK
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What did IKE warn against in his farewell address
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MIlitary industrila complex
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What was kenedy's platform
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New Frontier
Progress in space science and other areas |
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JOHN GLEN
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first american to orbit earth (1962)
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July 1969
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Neil arstrong was the first know human to step on the moon
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Government spending (JFK)
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he used deficit spending
Flexible response- being able to respond to a crisis without nuclear weapons |
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JFK still pushed for wat in vietnam
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LIMITED INVOLVEMEnt
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Peace Corps
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under JFK and it was where volunteers went to third world countries to aid them
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Alliance for progress
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Marshall plan for latin america (jfk)
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April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion
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a failed attempt to overthrow castro in cuba led by the US
The failure embarrased teh US and JFK |
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Berlin Germany
Summer of 1961 |
JFK and Krushchev met to discuss berlin
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Berlin Wall
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August of 1961
Soviet troops constructed a wall to divide teh east and west berlin |
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Cuban Missle Crisis 1962
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lasted about a week and war seemed likely between the us and soviets
US organized an invasion inot cuba to set up a blockade around cuba Us had to promise never to invade cuba MOst dangerous part of JFK's foreign policy |
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Better relations with the USSR
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Hot line was set up between teh us and ussr to create detente(easign of tensions)
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Limted test ban treaty
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Between US and USSR
Nuclear weapons wouldnt be tested in ocean or atmosphere |
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Political Concerns
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JFK had pledged to figth discrimination
He need to keep southern democrats on his side for social and economic programs |
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Freedom Rides
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Peop began to celebrate end of segregation in interstate travel and went on thes rides to push for civil righst and voter membership
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1962 James meredith
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won a court case allowing him to attend teh UNIVERSITY of MISSISSIPPi; led to integration in colleges
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George Wallace
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Gov of Alamba who supported segregation
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March 1963 Birmingham
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civi rights march led by king
Violence against protesters shown on TV |
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Medgar Evers
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Was shot in front of his home on june 12 1963
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August 1963 March on Washington
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over 200000 people marched ofr cilvil rights
MLK made his famous I HAVE A DREAM |
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Nov 22 1963
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JFK assasinated in dallas campaigning for relelection by OSWALD
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Warren Commision
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Set up to investigate the assassination and they concluded oswald was the killer
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Affirmative Action
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Quotas for Minorities
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Lyndon B JOhnson (1963-69)
Democrat |
Key issue in 64 election was poverty and civil rights
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Great Society
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Johnson's plan (his new deal)
Targeted the poor |
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War on poverty
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Attack poverty with food stamps and welfare
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VISTA
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volunteers in service to america
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Head Start
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Program for preschool children form low income families
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Medicare/MEdicaid
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Medicare-low cost insurance for elderly
Medicaid-low cost insurance for the poor |
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HUD
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housing and urban development and it provided low income housing
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Apalachia
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Was built up and was among the poorest anreas in teh country
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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Provides grants to promote education and cultural resources
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Entiltements
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Rights given to certain categories of Americans without need for repeated congressional approval
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Immigration and Nationality Act 1965
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Removed quota system of 1921 and set limits on immigrants from the western hemisphere
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Chief Justice Earl Warren
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led the way for more liberal court decisison
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25th ammendments
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deals with presidential succession and disability
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Results of the Great Society
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The number of poor did fall
The deficit increased Many supported more conservative ideas and republicans made gains |
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Gulf of Tonkin Aug 2 1964
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Johnson announced that a US ship the Maddox was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin near NOrth vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions
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president could take any means to protect us forces against attack
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24th ammendemnt
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abolished poll taxes
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Civil rights act 1964
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prohibited discrimination based on race in public places (johnson)
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Voting Rights Act 65
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eliminated literacy exams and allowed federal examiners to register votes not states
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Malcom x
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Member of th enation of islam called for black power and retalliation, militant leader
Black spartism |
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Black Panthers
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Founded by Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton and others to fight police brutality
Black Communist for Balacks |
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Stokely Carmichael
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Former leader of SNCC urged abandoment of peaceful demonstartion and promoted black power
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Thurgood Marshall
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Became First Black supreme court justice
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Robert Mcnamara
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Secretary of Defense for LBJ
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General William Westmoreland
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Head of US military in vietnam
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Rolling Thunder
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Air War
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Napalm
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jelly like gasoline that burned flesh and used to set jungles on fire
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Agent orange
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defoilant to kill plants
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Black Troops in Vienam
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Number were greater than tehir representation in the US
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what was teh war often called
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livin room war
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How to dodge teh draft
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college
leave the country join the coast guard medical excuses |
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New Left
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Youth Protest groups
Students for a democratic society Free cspeech movement |
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Weathermen
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New left extremis that used violence to protest
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hawks and doves
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hawks-those for the war
Doves- against the war |
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Tet Offinsive
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invasion of the south by the north in vietnam
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Results of Tet
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showed the south couldnt protect its won people many turned agianst the southeren govt
it showed the war was not nearly over |
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My Lai massacre
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300 civilans killed
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Johnson and the next election
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Johnson didnt run for re election due to tv coverage of vietnam
Credability gap was created |
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who won the 68 election and wat was the issue
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issues were vietnam and law and order
Nixon won |
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silent majority
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Nixon said he represented teh silent majority regular americans, non protestors
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april 4 1968
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MLK assaisanted by James Earl Ray
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June 4 1968
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Bobby Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan bashara sirhan
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Civil Rights act 1968
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banned discrimination in public housing
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Haight-Ashbury
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center of HIppie movement and was located in San Franscico
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Woodstock
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three days of music and love
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Attitudes in Society Changing around hippie movement
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More casual approach to marriage=more divorce
Rating system developed for movies Led to anti war movement and conservative growth |
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Economy Post War
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Postwar economy began to show signs of weakening
Productivity began to slow Cost of living tripled |
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Japan and Germany
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Japna and west germany began to compete with the us in production and trade
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Vietamization
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pull out US troops and let the south fight for themselves (nixon)
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Nixon Doctrine
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US would honor existing defense commitments but in the future wouldnt send large number of US troops
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bombings
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Nixon also later ordered bombing of Laos and Cambodia
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May 4 1976 Kent state
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sutdents protesting war was illegal invasion
Mayor called national guard guards orderend fire injuring 9 and killing 4 |
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Pentagon Papers
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information was leaked that revealed the truth abou tvietnam
Inaccurate reporst |
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Ny times v Us 1971
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over pentagon papers and the ruling was that the information didnt represent a clear and present danger to national security
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26th ammendment
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you must be 18 to vote
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what did teh Sec of State Henry Kissenger favor
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realplitik which was practical plitics and departure from containment
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Chna and Nixon
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Nixon went to mainland communist china to establish trade relations
UN recognized teh rupublic of china |
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USSR and NIxon
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NIxon also went to Soviet Union to establish better relations
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when is detente established
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china and USSr with nixon
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SALT
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limited number of missiles in the US and USSR
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Economics 101
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Nixon tried to impose wage and price controls to freeze wages and prices to control inflation
Failed |
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Southern Democrats and NIxon
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Nixon need support from them therefore slowed desegregation
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1972 Election
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NIXON vs GEORGE MCGOVERN
Democrats thought the war issue would gain them the president |
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Paris Peace Accords 1973
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Ended the war in bietnam and restored peace
The north allowed to keep troops in south |
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Hanoi Ilton
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Vietanimise POW camp for US
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Results of the Vietnam War
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Reassesses our commitments to other countries
Led to massive spending led to inflation |
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War Powers Act, 1973
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Replaces Fulf of Tonkin Resolutions (it gave too much power to the president)
The presedent must inform congress within 48 hours if US foorces are sent anywhere and tehy cannot stay more than 60 days |
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Maya LIn
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Created teh Vietnam memorial
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg BOE
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allowed for bussing to achieve racial equality
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Roe V. Wake
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abortions were legal and not regulated by govt in the first trimester
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Affrimative actions
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LBj:to protect the individual against discrimination
Nixon gave privileges to certain groups |
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Griggs v. Duke power Co 1971
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Prohibited intellegence test that discrimintated against minorities from certain jobs
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Rachel Carson
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Wrote Silent Spring
Problems associated with chemical pollution |
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Clean Air Act
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Governmnet can set air standards to limit pollution
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Clean Water Act
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Regulates discharges of pollution into us waters
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New Federalism
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to distrubute more power to the state and local governments
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Revenue Sharing
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State and local Governments would spend their fobt probided funds as they wanted soem restrictions
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Impounding Funds
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nixon passed their legislation but didnt probide funding for their projects
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Stagflation
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inflaition of deficit spending and high unemployment also caused by lack of foreign trade of our need for foreign oil
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Oil Embargo
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Set up by ARAB nations because we supported israel in a 1973 war
led to high prices and long lines |
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Plumbers
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created by NIxon to fi and keep leaks from happening
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Watergate
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JUne 17 72 men were caught breakin into democratic national committte HQ in the watergate apartments
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Shat was the purpose of the breakins
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purpose was to get Nixon re-elected
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Woodward and Bernstein
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who wrote for the washington post, wrote an article connecting the breakin at watergate to teh president
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Senator Sam ERvin
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led teh senate investigation of the watergate scandal and nixon's note
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John Dean
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presidential counsel who testified that nixon knew about watergate cover up
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White HOuse investigates
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Investigations found out nixon taped his conversations which my provide information
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Spiro Agnew
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resigned under accusations of tax evasion and bribery
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Gerald Ford
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appointed as new president after spiro agnew
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Saturday Night Massacre
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removing those who opposed NIXON
called for resignation of special prosecuter archivbald Cox |
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US v. Nixon
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supreme court said nixon had to release the tapes it wouldnt biolate national security
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Aug 9 1973
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nixon resigned
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Post Watergate reforms
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all presidential conversations would be taped in matters of foreign policy and domestic issues
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Gerald Ford
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wasnt electied by teh people
this tied ford to watergate even thought he had nothing to do with it |
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WIN
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whip inflation now
Ford slogan |
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Halsinki Accords
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attempt to protect human rights in europe
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FAll of Saigon
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fell in 75
north took control of the south and united vietnam as a communist country |
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1976 Election
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Key issue was honesty in govt
Carter Won Carter was an outsider HE wasn't connected to vietnam or watergate |
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Department of Energy
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created by carter to deal with energy crisis and find alternative means of energy
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National Energy Act 78
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tax on gas guzzlers remove price controls on oil produced in the US develop alternative forms of energy
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Airline Deregulation ACt 78
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to remove govt control over passenger airlines
Allows more competition |
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Three mile island
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nuclear reactor overheated; low level radiation leaked
Similar incident happened in russia called chenobly |
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Carter Focused on Human Rights
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FAct
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SALT 2
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carter and USSr leader met to limit nuclear weapons
never approved after the invasion of afghanistan by the USSR |
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Afghanistan
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Invasion of afghanistan by the soviets
boycotting summer oplymics 1980 Us aided muslim rebels against the soviets |
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Camp David Accords
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leadrs of Egypt and israel to meet and set up a framework for peace in the middle east
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PLO
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palenstinian liberation organization
continued terrorism against israel Yasir Arafat-LEader of the PLO |
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Middle East
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Shah Reza Pahlavi was overthrown by the ayatollah khomeni in iran
Khomeini set up islamic state in Iran and overthew teh Shah |
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Fall 79 Us EMbassy
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in iran was seized and 53 american hostages held for 444 days
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Social Changes
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lower birthrates
more divorces movement to the sunbelt increased immigration from latin america |
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Title 9
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prohibts discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that recieve federal finance assistance
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University o fCaliforna v Bakke
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Race alone could not be sole factor in selection based on affimative action
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Cezar Chaves
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organized mexican americans farm workers into a union called teh united farm workers organization comittee
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AIM
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idian militant groups fought against police bruality and wanted more rights and old lands back
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Wounded Knee 1973
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the village was taken over by 200 aim members to protest living conditions and government interfrence More control was given to indians in their own affairs schoools and land was gained
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Feminist MOvements
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was gaining power in the 60's supporting womens liberation
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NOW
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national organization for women Betty freiden helped to found for rights for women
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Gloria Steinem
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urged women to get involved in politics and pushed for womens rights
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ERA
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equal rights amembdment for women never passed
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Phyllis Schalfly
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conservative leader against ERA
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Silcion Valley
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San JOse California
Area fo computer and high tech development |
