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American Pageant 39
Trainor- AP United States History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vietnamization | nixon's policy of withdrawing american troops from vietnam while providing aid for the south vietnamese to fight the war |
| Kent State University | the ohio university where four students were killed during protests against the 1970 invasion of cambodia |
| Pentagon Papers | top-secret documents, published by the new york times in 1971, that showed the blunders and deceptions that led the united states into the vietnam war |
| Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty | the first major achievement of the nixon-kissinger dtente with the soviet union, which led to restrictions on defensive missile systems |
| Southern Strategy | Strategynixon's plan to win reelection by curbing the supreme court's judicial activism and soft-pedaling civil rights |
| Philadelphia Plan | term for the new group affirmative action policy promoted by the nixon administration |
| Watergate Complex | a washington office complex that became a symbol of the widespread corruption of the nixon administration |
| War Powers Act | the law, passed in reaction to the secret cambodia bombing, that restricted presidential use of troops overseas without congressional authorization |
| Oil Embargo | arab-sponsored restriction on energy exports after the 1973 arab-israeli war |
| Detente | nixon-ford-kissinger policy of seeking relaxe tensions with the soviet union through trade and arms limitation |
| Helinski Accords | international agreement of 1975, signed by president ford, that settled postwar european boundaries and attempted to guarantee human rights in eastern europe |
| Equal Rights Amendment | proposed constitutional amendment promoting women's rights that fell short of ratification |
| Roe vs. Wade | supreme court decision that declared women's right to choose abortion |
| Alcatraz, Wounded Knee | two historic sites seized by american indian activists in 1970-1972 to draw public attention to indian grievances |
| Title IX | provision of the 1972 education amendments that prohibited gender discrimination and opened sports and other arenas to women |
| Richard Nixon | winner of an overwhelming electoral victory who was forced from office by th threat of impeachment |
| Spiro Agnew | nixon's tough-talking conservative vice president, who was forced to resign in 1973 for taking bribes and kickbacks |
| Rachel Carson | environmental writer whose book silent spring helped encourage laws like the clean water act and the edangered species act |
| Daniel Ellsberg | former pentagon official who "leaked" the pentagon papers |
| Henry Kissinger | talented diplomatic negotiator and leading architect of detente with the soviet union during the nixon and ford administrations |
| Earl Warren | supreme court justice whose "judicial activism" came under increasing attack by conservatives |
| George McGovern | south dakota senator whose antiwar campaign was swamped bynixon |
| Sam Ervin | north carolina senator who condudcted the watergate hearings |
| Gerald Ford | the first appointed vice president and first appointed president of the united states |
| John Dean | white house lawyer whose dramatic charges against nixon were validated by the watergate tapes |
| James Earl Carter | former georgia governor whose presidency was plagued by economic difficulties and a crisis in iran |
| Anwar Sadat | egyptian leader who signed the camp david accords with israel |
| Allen Bakke | california medical school applicant whose case led a divided supreme court to uphold limited forms of affirmative action for minorities |
| Shah of Iran | repressive pro-western ruler whose 1979 overthrow precipitated a crisis for the united states |
| Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | the muslim religious leader who dominated the 1979 iranian revolution |
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