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45 Cards in this Set
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Trade Expansion Bill
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President lowers tariff rates
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Alliance for Progress
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Partners with Latin countries
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The Peace Corps
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Help for underdeveloped countries
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Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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New emphasis on Disarmament
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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Bans atmospheric testing
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Initiates 24th and 26th Amendments
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Starts Anti-Poll Tax and Lowered Voting Age Amendments
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Bay of Pigs
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Lacked air cover
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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World’s first nuclear confrontation
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Moscow “hot line”
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Helps prevent accidental war
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Expands space effort
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National goal for a moon landing
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The New Frontier
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Kennedy’s slogan
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War on Poverty
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Office of Economic Opportunity
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Civil Rights Acts
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Strong support for Blacks
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Creation of HUD
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Government assistance in housing and urban development
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Medicare
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Health benefits for the elderly
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Elementary and Secondary education Acts
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Massive federal aid to education
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Golf on Tonkin
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Rationale for escalation in Vietnam
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Vietnam
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Johnson’s nemesis
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“Guns and Butter”
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Expanded war and domestic spending
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24th and 25th Amendments
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Anti-Poll Tax & Presidential Succession Amendments
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The Great Society
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Johnson’s Slogan
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Environmental Protection Agency established
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New emphasis on the environment
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26th Amendment
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Lowers voting age to 18.
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Man lands on the moon
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Neil Armstrong
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War Powers Resolution
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President reports within 48 hours
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U.S. recognizes China
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Taiwan loses status
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Vice President Agnew resigns
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Ford becomes Vice President
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Watergate hearings, Nixon resigns
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Ford becomes President
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WIN Buttons
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Whip Inflation Now
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Nixon pardoned
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Controversial Ford decision
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Department of Health and Human Services
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New Agency for Health and Welfare
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Department of Education
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Education gets cabinet status
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Camp David Accords
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Begin and Sadat
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Human rights crusade
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Worldwide Propaganda campaign
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Reagan Revolution
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Reduction of Federal Government
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Invasion of Grenada
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Topples Marxist regime
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Bombing of Libya
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Answer to terrorism
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Tax Reform Act
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Plug loopholes, lower rates
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Director of Budget resigns
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David Stockman
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INF Treaty
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Eliminates intermediate-range missiles worldwide
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Iran-Contra Affair
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North, Poindexter, Bush (?), Reagan (?)
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HUD scandal
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Influence peddling on a grand scale
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Savings and loan crisis
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Bailout costs taxpayers $200-400 billion
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25% tax cuts
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Helped triple the national debt
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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Star Wars
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