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22 Cards in this Set
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Automation |
Machines replace humans in production |
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1960 election |
Nixon against JFK, JFK won. And had a good public image due to t.v. to many families |
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Bay of pigs |
Invasion of cuba due to cuba being close in location to us and not wanting communism to spread. We were in disguise |
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Cuban missle crisis |
Between u.s. and s.u. where s.u. agreed to remove missles from cuba but they pointed them at us |
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JFK in whitehouse |
Jfk had a great image in the public eye due to t.v. and his young age and family |
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New frontier |
Jfks domestic idea. Ex. Space development, raise min. Wage, fight war on poverty |
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Tragedy in dallas |
Lee harvey oswald shot jfk in dallas |
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Lbj |
Set up war on commissions, fight poverty, civil rights, began medicare, and medicade creating his "great society" |
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The great society |
Lbjs program to improve u.s. society |
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Civil rights act of 1964 |
Law banning racial discrimination |
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Affirmation action |
Giving preferences to women and ethnic minorties |
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Womens rights |
Equal pay and couldn't distcriminate at jobs |
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Equal rigjts amendment |
Guarenteed womans rights by outlawing discrimination based on gender |
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Woodstock |
Rock concert that marked the high point of the counterculture era |
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Vietnam war |
Part of our containment and wantimg to stop the spread of communism |
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Kent state shooting |
National guard fires at students during an antiwar protest |
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Richard Nixon |
Ordered bomb on Cambodia |
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Gerald ford |
President after Nixon, didnt get aling w congress |
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The energy crisis |
Opeck raosed proces of oil since gas was limited |
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Watergate |
Nixon authorized the coverup of a break at the domestic national committee |
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Jimmy carter |
Faced another energy crisis in 79 and. Dropped speed limit |
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Iran hostage crisis |
53 americans wwre taken hostage at the u.s. embassy in tehran and lasted 44 days |
