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APUSH Ch. 30
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Thieu | leader of South Vietnam |
| War Powers Act | required president to report use of military force to Congress within 48 hours |
| Paris Accords | January 1973. armistice of Vietnam War |
| 1970 | Americans learned of Mai Lai Massacre |
| 1972 | Nixon's trip to China |
| 1973 | Roe v Wade and Yom Kippur War |
| 1975 | Vietnam became communist |
| 69-Aug. 74 | Years of Nixon's administration |
| 74-77 | Gerald Ford's years |
| 63-80s | years of warren and burger's courts |
| New Left | teach-ins and anti-war movement |
| Counterculture | dislike for society trough alternative society-long hair, drug use, permissive sex |
| termination | ending of federal support for Indians |
| Declaration of Indian Purpose | saying the Indians were unfairly treated |
| Country of Oneida v Oneida Indian Nation | court decision raised the possibility that Native Americans might reclaim land lost when federal government violated old treaties |
| Cesar Chavez | United Farm Workers Organization |
| United Farm Workers | collective bargaining rights for farm workers in 1975 |
| Kent State and Jackson State Universities | antiwar activity that resulted in four white students and two black students being killed |
| Stonewwall Riot | NYC-1969. beginning of gay liberation movement |
| Betty Friedan | wrote Silent Spring. environmental appreciation |
| Title IX of the civil rights act of 1964 | prohibited colleges and universities that received federal funding from gender discrimination |
| National Organization for Women (NOW) | directed most of its efforts to women already in the workplace |
| Equal Rights Amendment | approved in 1972 but not ratified, time frame expired |
| Roe v Wade | based off of right to privacy. allowed abortion during first trimester of pregnancy |
| peace with honor | Richard Nixon. in Vietnam, law and order at home |
| Pentagon Papers | released to expose the Pentagon Papers |
| Cambodian Invasion of 1970 | in april 1970. destroy Vietnamese Communist supply bases |
| Christmas bombing of 1972 | in 1969. ordered air force into Laos to assist South Vietnamese |
| vietnamization policy | gradual withdrawal of troops and turning over the war to South Vietnamese |
| SALT 1 talks | |
| Yom Kippur War | Syria and Egypt attacked Israel in an attempt to recover lands lost in Six Day War of 1967 |
| Baker v Carr | case which gives federal courts the right to intervene in and to decide reapportionment cases |
| Chief Justice Warren Burger | replaced Earl Warren as Cheif Justice. 1969 |
| H.R. Haldeman | aide to president Nixon |
| John Ehrlichman | resigned to protect president Nixon |
| John Dean | white house lawyer who linked Nixon to the Watergate cover up |
| John Mitchell | ordered break in of the Watergate |
| Howard Baker | "What did the president know and when did he know it?" |
| Watergate Cover up | part of illicit activities and tricks of Democratic Committee to reelect Nixon |
| Saturday Night Massacre | dismissal of Nixon's advisers during Watergate scandal |
| detente | easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation |
| Family Assistance Plan | direct cash payments to those families who are in need |
| Port Huron Statement | the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society |
| hippies | part of antiwar moevemnt. drugs and counter culture |
| Indian Civil Rights Act | makes many, but not all, of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights applicable within the tribes |
| Third World | nixon-kissinger policy had declined |
| Henry Kissinger | Sec. of state during Nixon's second term |
| Leonid Brezhnev | met with Kissinger at the Vladivostok Summit |
| silent majority | those worried about antiwar protests. those afraid to speak out |
| stagflation | economic slowdown and high inflation |
| oil embargo on 1974 | US had to pay significant price for supporting Isreal |
| Democratic National Committee Headquarters | Chicago riot. television showed scenes of three candidates: Humphrey, Nixon, Wallace |
| Ervin Committee | investigated the Watergate break in |
| Imperial | presidency of Nixon. secretive,isolated, Federal bureaucracy very swollen |
| AIM | American Indian Movement |
| Spiro Agnew | forced to resign for having taken bribes and kickbacks while Governor of MD |
| 26th Amendment | right to vote for 18 year olds |