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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| NVA | North Vietnamese Army, enemies of the US |
| Vietcong | South Vietnamese Communists, guerilla soldiers, enemies of the US |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | bombing campaign against military targets in North Vietnam |
| Tet Offensive | NVA and Vietcong troops attack the US and caught the American and ARVN troops off guard |
| Vietnam Military Draft | random numbers assigned to your birthday and placed in a container |
| My Lai Massacre | turning point in American public opinion because women, children, and elderly were killed |
| Nixon(Vietnamization) | developed the plan to end the war by gradually turning over the fighting to the south vietnamese while pulling out US troops bringing peace with honor |
| Domino Theory | was predicted to proceed but ended up not because fights broke out between communist china, vietnam, and cambodia and international communism was not as unified as the US thought |
| Martin Luther King Jr | president of the Montgomery bus boycott and preached for nonviolent protests for civil rights |
| Rosa Parks | got arrested for sitting down in the white section of the bus and refusing to give up her seat |
| Robert F. Kennedy | just won a big victory in california in the democratic primary and was clearly going to win the nomination but got assassinated and died in the LA hotel after delivering his victory speech |
| Brown v Board of Education | segregation was now officially illegal in public schools |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | came from the arrest of Rosa Parks where blacks would ride the buses |
| March on Washington D.C. ( "I Have a Dream") | MLK spoke of his desire for a future when blacks and whites would be equal |
| The Student Movement | students decided they can practice their free speech and assembly on campus and organize protests |
| The Counterculture | youth beginning to reject everything that was connected with mainstream america, hippies living an alternative lifestyle |
| Woodstock | a celebration of an era and a movement marking the beginning of the end of the counterculture movement with rock music as the focal point |
| The 1968 Presidential Election | between LBJ, McCarthy, and Robert F Kennedy and the new hampshire primary was very important |
| Anti War Vietnam Protests | since nixon escalated the vietnam war by bombing cambodia anger grew higher on the nations college campuses |
| The Kent State Shootings | national guard troops shot randomly into the crowd of students killing 4 and injuring 9 |
| Gerald R. Ford | started the WIN (whip inflation now) where Americans were asked to save money, conserve fuel, and plant gardens |
| Jimmy Carter | tried tax and spending cuts but inflation was still very high angering liberal democrats because spending cuts fell mostly on social programs |
| Watergate Scandal | trying to stop leaks after the pentagon papers came out but a lot of their actions were illegal and done so for national security |
| 1970's Economic Problems | inflation increased as well as unemployment, price of oil also skyrocketed and nobody could fix the economy |
| Iran Hostage Crisis | angry iranians seized the american embassy on November 4, 1979 and took 52 hostages which were held for 444 days |
| Camp David Accords | Carter acted as the peacemaker for Israel and Egypt bringing a rare positive in American foreign policy |
| The Sunbelt | migration from the northeast to the south and west because of civil rights advancements, larger suburbs, and air conditioning becoming a thing |
| 1970's Culture | self improvement and fitness and health both became popular |
| 1970's Entertainment and Technology | movies became really popular as well as music and steve jobs introduced apple |
| Ronald Reagan Conservatism | promised to keep taxes low and minimize spending |
| George H.W. Bush | president during the end of the cold war, he benefited from the emergence of gorbachev in the USSR, and the persian gulf war |
| Saddam Hussein | invaded neighboring Kuwait during the persian gulf war |
| Conservativism / The New Right | formed by conservative groups to win the election focusing on size of government and its role in the economy and the restoration of christian vales in the american society |
| Supply side Economics (Reaganomics) | trickle down economics where it focused on the supply of goods not the demand so cutting taxes would put more money in the hands of the businesses |
| Deregulation | cut regulations that hurt the free market like the transportation, banking, and energy industry reducing the budget of the environmental protection agency |
| Iran Contra Scandal | congress funded the contras and it violated american policy on intervening in other nations affairs but reagan claimed no knowledge of the operation and still criticized for lack of control of the government |
| Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) | won with high tech weapons and had extensive media coverage of the bombing campaign |
| 1980s Culture | investing in the stock market, wealth becoming admired, and designer labels are more important |
| 1980's Social Issues | drugs were shown to be addictive and dangerous and the sexual revolution became a thing with the development of aids |
| 24th Amendment | eliminated the poll tax which was used to prevent african americans from voting |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | ended literacy tests and provided federal registration for voters |
| Malcolm X | preached black nationalism and a more aggressive approach to civil rights, a member of the nation of islam but later changed his views after visiting mecca |
| Black Panthers | formed to fight police brutality in the ghetto and advocated for black self defense |
| Civil Rights Act of 1968 | ended discrimination in housing |
| Affirmative Action | programs designed to hire or enroll groups that have faced discrimination in the past |
| Cesar Chavez | helped organize the united farm workers to help migrant workers get better pay and working conditions |
| AIM (American Indian Movement) | often militant group that fought for native american rights and protection of their culture |
| Feminism | the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men |
| Betty Friedan | wrote the feminine mystique which argued that women were capable of doing more than just being a housewife |
| NOW (National Organization for Women) | formed to pursue women's goals like better childcare facilities and educational opportunities |
| Roe v Wade | supreme court case that ruled that women have the right to choose an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy |
| Phyllis Schlafly | conservative activist who fought against the equal rights amendment because she felt it would lead to draft for women and end the husband's responsibility to provide for the family |
| Gideon v Wainwright | supreme court case that ruled that states must provide a lawyer to defendants who cannot afford one |
| Escobedo v Illinois | supreme court case that ruled an accused person has a right to have a lawyer present during questioning |
| Miranda v Arizona | supreme court case that ruled suspects must be read their rights before questioning |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | passed by congress giving the president broad military powers in vietnam after an alleged attack on american ships |
| War Powers Act | passed by congress to limit the president's power to wage war, requiring him to inform congress within 48 hours of sending troops into a hostile area |
| Credibility Gap | the difference between what the johnson administration was reporting about the war and what was actually happening |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's legislative program which included proposals to provide medical care for the elderly, rebuild blighted urban areas, and aid education |
| Peace Corps | a program of volunteer assistance to developing nations created by Kennedy |
| Warren Commission | investigated the assassination of President Kennedy and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
| Great Society | Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the US |
| Medicare and Medicaid | medicare provided hospital insurance and low cost medical insurance for the elderly, medicaid provided health insurance for welfare recipients |
| Immigration Act of 1965 | opened the door for many non |
| Warren Court | the supreme court under chief justice earl warren, noted for its activism in the areas of civil rights and free speech |
| Plessy v Ferguson | supreme court case that ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP lawyer who argued the brown v board of education case and later became the first african american supreme court justice |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | formed by MLK and other ministers to use nonviolent protests to achieve civil rights |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | formed by college students to give younger african americans a greater role in the civil rights movement |
| Sit ins | protest technique where african american protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served |
| Freedom Riders | civil rights activists who rode buses through the south to challenge segregation on interstate bus routes |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender in public places |
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