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American his 26-27
| Port Huron statement | Express views of the students for Democratic society |
| Many of new religious groups of the 60’s centered around | Authoritarian leaders |
| Members of the counterculture where youths from | Middle and upper class backgrounds |
| at this time had very little part in any policy, making for any organization | Women |
| Was sparked by restrictions on students rights to distribute literature, and recruit volunteers for political causes | Free speech movement |
| In the end, most young people from counterculture gradually returned to the | Mainstream of society |
| Was the part of the educational amendment that prohibited federal funded schools from discriminating against girls and young women in nearly all aspects of their operations | Title IX |
| The strengthening of the economy in 1950s made college more affordable for young people in the | 60s |
| Call for companies to actively recruit African-Americans | Affirmative action |
| In response to the Berkeley revolt, the supreme court ruled in favor of the students | Rights to free speech on campus |
| Failed, did not become part of the constitution | The equal rights amendment |
| A music festival that drew hundreds and thousands of people | Woodstock |
| University of California regents v. bakee, the ____ ruled that schools could not use race, no quotas from determining admission | The Supreme Court |
| Common name for members of the counter culture | Hippies |
| Members of the unification church | Moonies |
| Became a practice used to desegregate schools | Busing |
| Were shared living arrangements used by many of the countercultures | Communes |
| First American president ever to visit the Soviet Union | Richard Nixon |
| Evidence on the water gate showed that ___ ordered the cover-up | Nixon |
| Resigned before he was impeached or convicted | Nixon |
| Did not believe in expanding the rights of criminals. He was a law & order president. | Nixon |
| Watergate was watched by many American people during the | 1972 president campaign |
| Approval rating dropped after he pardoned Nixon | President Ford |
| A Watergate tap revealed that ____ had ordered the CIA to stop the FBI investigation | Nixon |
| Ordered a embargo on the sale of the grain to the Soviet union as a result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan | President Carter |
| Main purpose of Nixon’s trip to China was to encourage the _____ to actively pursue diplomacy | Soviets |
| By 1970s economy was dependent on | Imported oil |
| Prosperity of ___ and ____ arrested on easy access to raw materials around the world and a strong manufacturing industry | 50s and 60s |
| Were engaging in negotiating with communist rivals while containing communism | Nixon and Kissinger |
| Energy crisis of 70s was due to _____ price increases in government regulation of oil industry | OPEC |
| As a candidate ____ appealed to Americans known as “ middle America” or the “ silent majority” | Nixon |
| Nixon’s program for shifting more control from the federal government to the state and local government | New federalism |
| White House conversation should remain confidential to protect national security | Executive privilege |
| Two things that President Reagan felt were more important than balancing the budget | 1. Cutting taxes. 2. Building up the military |
| Policy of supporting guerilla groups that were fighting to overthrow communist or pro – Soviet governments | Reagan doctrine |
| Call for destruction of nuclear weapons and marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War | Significance of INF treaty |
| The scandal that tainted Reagan’s second term as president. Involved sale of weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Middle East/involved marine corporal Oliver North | Iran –contra scandal |
| 3 appointments to a Supreme Court by President Ronald and what was significant about one of these | 1. sandraday o’connor – first woman of the US Supreme Court. 2. William Rehnquist - elevating to chief justice 3. Antonin Scalia - 1st Italian American Supreme Court justice |
| Reagan was the first president to call Soviet Union as | Evil empire |
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