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26 Cards in this Set
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Who is the only vice president to resign because of criminal charges?
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Spiro Agnew
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Who was the conservative Republican senator that lost the 1964 presidential election?
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Barry Goldwater
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Who was the former leader of the radical Nation of Islam organization who later left and was assassinated?
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Malcom X
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Who organized a huge civil rights demonstrations in Washington DC and promoted non violent demonstrations?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Who fired the fatal shots that ended "Camelot"?
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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At the same time that Nixon was pulling troops out of Vietnam, he began new attacks on what two neighboring countries?
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Cambodia and Loas
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Prohibited segregation and discrimination based on race in public places and in private companies with government contracts
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Johnson's program for defeating poverty
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Great Society
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President Kennedy's domestic program
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New Frontier
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Movement that protested American involvement in Vietnam
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New Left
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Ended discrimination by literacy tests and harassment in federal elections
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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What was the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth?
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Sputnik I
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Who was President Nixon's special advisor in foreign policy and later his secretary of state?
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Henry Kissenger
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What was the name of the South Vietnamese Communists?
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Viet Cong
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What Supreme Court case legalized abortion in 1973?
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Roe vs. Wade
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What American policy gradually returned the responsibility of the fighting in Vietnam to the South Vietnamese?
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Vietnamization
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What legislation allowed the president to act in response to a reported North Vietnamese attack on an American ship?
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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How did Arab nations retaliate against America in 1973 for its support of Israel?
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oil embargo
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What is the name of the proposed amendment that would have guaranteed the "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied…on account of sex"?
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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
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What agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union restricted the types and numbers of nuclear warheads and missiles that each nation could have?
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Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT)
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Name the massive Communist attack that occurred during a holiday ceasefire in Vietnam.
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Tet Offensive
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Which president was responsible for bringing a new era of détente in Soviet-American relations?
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Nixon
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Which president president ordered wage and price controls to curb inflation?
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Nixon
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What did Congress pass in 1973 because it's inability to control America's involvement in the Vietnam War?
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War Powers Act
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What did the Soviets build to prevent the escape of East Germans to freedom in the West?
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Berlin Wall
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What event had the US barely escaping war with the Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba?
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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