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90 Cards in this Set
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Lyndon Johnson's plan for the nation was called the _____________. |
Great Society |
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The goal of HUD was to make sure that ___________ took place in rundown areas of American cities. |
urban renewal |
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_________ provided low-cost health insurance for people age 65 and over and for younger people with certain disabilities. |
Medicare |
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____________ helped states pay for medical care for low-income people. |
Medicaid |
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Who were the candidates in the 1964 presidential election? |
Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater |
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Why was Johnson able to persuade Congress to pass many programs? |
Because his programs were designed to improve life for everyone. |
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What programs did Johnson create to help poor people? |
He created Project Head Start, the Job Corps, and Volunteers in Service to America. |
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How does the Miranda v. Arizona decision protect Americans' rights? |
By telling people their rights after they're arrested or placed in custody. |
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Why was Johnson's appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court an important one? |
Because Marshall was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court. |
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Lyndon Johnson |
his plan as President was The Great Society |
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Barry Goldwater |
running mate of LBJ during the 1964 election |
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Thurgood Marshall |
liberal judge appointed to the Supreme Court by Johnson |
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Ernesto Miranda |
man who was arrested and charged with a crime, but wasn't read his rights |
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Herbert Humphrey |
conservative Republican; strong anti-communist; ran in the 1964 election |
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Southern Senators tended to ____________ when civil rights bills were trying to be voted on. |
filibuster |
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The group Black Panther represented the movement known as __________ where African Americans were urged to gain political and economic power. |
Black Power |
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The Feminine Mystique helped to bring about the revival of ___________. |
feminism |
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What were two effects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965? |
States couldn't make voters pay a poll tax or take a literacy test. |
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How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affect civil rights for African Americans? |
By outlawing segregation in public places, creating the EEOC, and more. |
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How were the beliefs of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. different? |
Unlike MLK, Malcolm X believed in using violence to gain rights for African Americans. |
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When did Malcolm X's beliefs begin to change? |
When he broke with the Nation of Islam. |
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What groups besides African Americans worked to gain equal rights in the 1960s and 1970s? |
Women, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans. |
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Why did the Equal Rights Amendment die without becoming law? |
Because only 35 out of 38 states approved it. |
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The idea that if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism, other countries would also fall was known as the _______________. |
domino theory |
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An ___________ in Vietnam meant that the U.S. was dedicating more resources to that country. |
escalation |
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Many bombs used in Vietnam were made from _______ which stuck to and burned human skin. |
napalm |
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Middle class white men were more likely to receive a __________ in the draft than poor whites and minorities. |
deferment |
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What power did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution give the President? |
To take "all necessary measures" to protect American forces in Vietnam. |
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How did the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War change after 1964? |
By dropping bombs on North Vietnam. |
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What factors made the war in Vietnam difficult for th United States to win? |
Unfamiliar territory. |
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Why were napalm bombs used in Vietnam? |
So U.S. troops could see their enemies in the jungle. |
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What effect did the Tet Offensive have on American's opinion of the war? |
It caused Americans to believe that they couldn't win the war. |
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Why did President Johnson decide not to run for reelection? |
Because his Democratic support weakened and he wanted to work for peace. |
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Nation of Islam |
a black Muslim separatist group |
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Malcolm X |
a leader within the Nation of Islam who was assassinated in February of 1965 |
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Stokely Carmicheal |
began a movement that came to be known as Black Power |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
famous for his nonviolent protests; assassinated in April of 1968 |
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Betty Friedan |
wrote The Feminine Mystique |
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Shirley Chisholm |
first African American woman to be elected to Congress |
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César Chávez |
leader in the struggle for Latino rights; he worked to help migrant farmers gain rights |
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Ho Chi Minh |
the communist leader of North Vietnam |
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Ngo Dinh Diem |
leader of South Vietnam who was overthrown and assassinated |
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Viet Cong |
South Vietnamese group loyal to communists in North Vietnam, they used guerrilla warfare tactics to fight the U.S. |
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______________ was put together so that South Vietnamese forces could fight the war themselves. |
Vietnamization |
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A _________ in the Vietnam War was signed on January 27, 1973, ending most of the U.S. involvement in that country. |
truce |
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What divided the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s? |
Seeing vivid battles in Vietnam and protesters. |
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What happened in the village of My Lai? |
U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed people. |
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What was Vietnamization? |
President Nixon's plan to train the South Vietnamese to fight the Vietnam War. |
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What step did Congress take to prevent another conflict like the Vietnam War from occurring? |
Congress passed the War Powers Act. |
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What is the War Powers Act? |
The purpose was to increase legislative control over the nation's military and limit the president's ability to begin a long-term war. |
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Hubert Humphrey |
Johnson's VP who was the democratic nominee for the 1968 presidential election |
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Robert Kennedy |
assassinated after winning the California primary in June of 1968 |
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Richard Nixon |
republican candidate who won the 1968 presidential election |
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George Wallace |
governor of Alabama and a supporter of segregation who ran under a third party for the 1968 election |
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My Lai |
site of a massacre of Vietnamese men, women, and children at the hands of U.S. soldiers |
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Kent State University |
four protesting students were **** and killed here by the National Guard |
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Henry Kissinger |
Nixon's national security advisor who held secret talks with North Vietnam leaders to end the war |
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Maya Ying Lin |
Chinese-American woman who designed the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
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_______________ was designed to increased opportunities for African Americans, women, Latinos, and Native Americans. |
Affirmative action |
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Nixon and Kissinger implemented ___________ in order to ease tensions between the U.S. and communist superpowers. |
détente |
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____________ is when prices rise but the economy stalls. |
Stagflation |
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How did Nixon handle desegregation? |
By opposing busing programs but supporting affirmative action programs. |
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How did Nixon assist the space program? |
By giving NASA approval to develop a space shuttle. |
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What economic problems did the U.S. face in the 1970s? |
Competition in manufacturing and the high price of oil. |
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How did OPEC impact the U.S. economy? |
By raising the price of oil and stopping the sale of oil to the U.S. |
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_____________ are freedoms that all people should have. |
human rights |
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Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy in Iran and took sixty American __________ and held them captive for more than a year. |
hostages |
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A __________ is a period of reduced economic activity - something the U.S. experienced during Ford's presidency. |
recession |
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What was the first major task President Ford felt he needed to accomplish? |
Pardoning Nixon. |
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In what two ways did Ford try to improve the economy? |
By balancing budgets and cutting spending. |
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In what ways did Americans try to solve the energy crisis? |
By using wind energy, solar energy, and nuclear power. |
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Why did President Carter encourage Americans to develop alternative sources of energy? |
Because of inflation. |
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How was Carter's foreign policy both successful and unsuccessful? |
Successful: Egypt and Israel's agreement. Unsuccessful: The U.S. and Soviet Union wouldn't sign the agreement. |
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What prompted the hostage crisis in Iran? |
The U.S. allowing the Shah to enter for medical treatment. |
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Neil Armstrong |
first man to walk on the moon |
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Leonid Brezhnev |
leader of the Soviet Union who signed the SALT I agreements with Nixon |
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OPEC |
countries in the Middle East who produced and sold oil |
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CREEP |
organization working for Nixon that was tied to the Watergate scandal |
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Gerald Ford |
pardoned former president Nixon |
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James Carter |
former governor of Georgia who won the presidential election of 1976 |
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Three Mile Island |
site of a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania where an accident occurred in 1979 |
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Anwar Sadat |
president of Egypt, signed the camp David accords |
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Menachem Begin |
Israeli Prime Minister; signed the Camp David Accords |
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Camp David |
the presidential retreat |
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Ayatollah Khomeini |
leader of Iran who refused to negotiate for the release of the American hostages in Tehran |
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TRUE/FALSE: The Voting Rights of 1965 eliminated discrimination in the work and public places. |
false |
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TRUE/FALSE: The Tet Offensive made many more people favor the war in Vietnam. |
true |
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filibuster |
to give a long speech in order to dealt the vote on a bill in Congress |
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détente |
easing tensions between unfriendly nations |
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recession |
decline in economic activity |
