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US hist Sem 2 Part 3
Final Exam Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baby Boom | An explosion in the infant population |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | 1896 court case that said separate but equal is constitutional |
| Non-violent resistance | Avoiding violence to gain equal rights |
| Jim Crow Laws | Unwritten laws in the south that kept segregation alive afer the Civil War |
| Black Power | Using any means necessary, even violence to gain equality |
| segregation | The forced separation of the races |
| Great Society | LBJ's plan for domestic social reform |
| New Frontier | JFK's vision for our countryNo |
| November 22, 1963 | Assassination of JFK |
| Establishment | Traditional culture |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Gave LBJ the authority to conduct the war in Vietnam |
| Viet Cong | Group opposed to Diem; our enemy |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's plan for the South Vietnamese to take over the fighting from American forces. |
| Tet Offensive | North Vietnamese offensive launched in 1968. |
| Detente | Attempt to lessen the tensions during the Cold War |
| Iran Contra Scandal | Involved exchanging money and weapons for hostages while diverting funds to the Contras |
| Reaganomics | Economic policy that called for tax breaks to the rich to encourage spending. |
| Glasnost | The opening of Soviet society to new ideas |
| Peristroika | The restructuring of how the Soviets conducted economic business. |