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70s People & Terms
Global Citizenship
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Washington post reporter who helped expose the Watergate scandal | Bob woodward |
| feminist founder of MS magazine | gloria Steinem |
| national security advisor and then secretary of state for nixon | Henry kissenger |
| professional female tennis player who challenged and beat a male pro tennis player | Billie jean king |
| wrote the book the feminine mystique about the dissatisfaction of women | Betty friedan |
| Chippewa founder of the red power movement | Dennis banks |
| Russian leader | Leonid Brezhnev |
| violently anti American Leader of iran | ayatollah khomeini |
| challenged the racial quotas used for entrance into college | Allan bakke |
| first person executed when the death penalty was resumed in 1977 | Gary Gilmore |
| Harvard lawyer and consumer rights advocate | Ralph Nader |
| leaked the Pentagon papers | Daniel ellsburg |
| black woman who served in the house from 1969 - 1983 and ran for president | Shirley Chisholm |
| detente | easing tensions in the post cold war world with Russia |
| ping pong diplomacy | US open relations with red china |
| vietnamization | plan by president nixon to get US out of the Vietnam war |
| sea of tranquility | basis of the moon |
| OPEC | Arab nations oil cartel |
| Pentagon papers | leaked by ellsburg and exposed concerning decisions about Vietnam and other government secrets |
| camp David accords | accords organized by president Carter briefly helped ease egypt and Israel tensions |
| roe v Wade | supreme court legalization of abortion by the supreme court, based off the privacy rights of the fourth amendment |
| 25th amendment | amendment stating that if the president is removed, the vice president becomes president |
| bicentennial | 200th anniversary of the United States since gaining independence from great Britain |
| university of California v bakke | declared an unconstitutional usage of quotas |
| crisis of confidence | carter's speech addressing the nation |
| white flight | large integration of whites into areas therefore making them more diverse |
| Ms magazine | feminist magazine |
| Title IX | promoted greater equality for women, particularly in sports |
| AIM | American Indian movement addressing inequality affecting indigenous communities |
| caravan of broken treaties | addressed bad native American policies, asked for more cultural awareness, environmental rights, & political autonomy |
| nader's raiders | people attacking big corporations |
| the imperial presidency | term used to describe a president that is a danger to American democracy & typically associated with presidents that abused power, commonly referring to Nixon |
| ERA | known as the equal rights amendment, was an amendment added to the Constitution intended to Grant gender equality and was endorsed by the president, yet not ratified by the states |
| realpolitik | more pragmatic approach to foreign policy that prioritized the United States' self interests |
| bamboo curtain | cold war term that referred to the separation of china from other nations |
| swann v mecklenburg | case that saw that state imposed segregation was unconstitutional and pushed for racial integration in public schools |
| stagflation | term used to describe the combination of stagnant + inflation |
| war powers act | lw stating the the president must notify Congress 48 hours prior to military action |
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