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US II final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| little rock crisis | little rick nine & president Eisenhower |
| rosa parks | refused to give up bus seat |
| emmitt till | murder sparked civil rights movements |
| emmitt till | murder sparked civil rights movements |
| sit-ins | form of protest |
| james meredith | first black that tried to attend ole miss |
| civil rights act 1964 | banned segregation and discrimination |
| PLace of MLK speeches | Birmingham and Selma |
| goal of civil rights movements | voting rights, political and sociable equality |
| james earl ray | killed MLK |
| stokley Carmichael | found of snnc/ black power |
| Malcolm x | once apart of islam/ favored separatism |
| congress of racial equality | core (freedom rides) |
| mlk in memphis | striking sanitation workers |
| I've been to the mountain top speech | foreshadowed MLK's death |
| cuban missile crisis | Kennedy's response = naval blockade |
| bay of pigs | kennedy gave authorization |
| warren commission | official report of KF assignation |
| president LBJ and Congress | to get legislation passed |
| great society | LBJs domestic program |
| Pentagon Papers | published 1971, traced american involvement in vietnam back to truman and Jackson |
| détene and realpolitik | lessening on tension & realistic goals and objectives for foreign policy |
| Nixon's domestic accomplishments | environmental protection agency |
| JFK election | 1st televised debates for 1960 election |
| Robert Kennedy | JFKs attorney General |
| Watergate | scandal brought down nixon |
| SALT 1 | arms limitation agreement with soviet union |
| oil embargo 1973 | AMERICAS SUPPORT FOR ISREAL / opec organized |
| saturday night massacure | firing of Archibald Cox |
| the new frontier policy | JFk domestic Program |
| war on poverty | LBJ |
| tet offensive | conducted by North Vietnam |
| amendment 25 & 26 | line of presidency and voting age 21-18 |
| general ford | became president without a real election or nomination |
| 1868 democratic convention | police riot broke out over vietnam war |
| flexible response | JFKs military strategy |
| southern strategy | how nixon attracted southern conservatives |
| berlin wall | surrounded west berlin, symbol of oppression |
| kennedy assassination | oswald |
| ford pardons nixon | wouldnt get a fair trial and end national nightmare |
| Stagflation | no economic growth/ high unemployment and inflation |
| president carter and the economy | energy crisis |
| iran-hostage crisis | 1979/ iranian revolution |
| invasion of Afghanistan | soviet invasion/ made us look weak |
| camp david accords | government agreement between Egypt and Israel |
| election of 1980 | reagan beat carter |
| reaganomics | supply side economics/ 4 parts |
| SDI | (star wars) develop satellite to shoot down icbms |
| fall of berlin wall | 1989 beginning of the end of the cold war |
| iran-contra | supply weapons to iran vis israel |
| collapse of communism in eastern europe | soviet satellite nations |
| gorbachev, glasnost, and perestrokia | openness and restructure of the soviet economy |
| election of 1988 | bush senior and michael dukakis |
| panama | us invades in 1989 to remove dictator |
| operation desert shield and operation desert storm | after iraq 1980 and forced iran to leave kuwait |
| no new taxes | promised by BUSH SR! |
| universal health car plan | hilary clinton responsible |
| 1994 midterm elections | republicans control house |
| war in iraq 2003 and war in afghanistan 2001 | cause of 9/11 |
| bush doctrine | stance on terrorism |
| 9/11 | terrorist attack |
| al qaeda | bin laden |
| waco and Oklahoma city | domestic terrorism |
| Somalia | peace keeping effort/ feed hungry mission |
| newt ginrich | lowering taxes |
| whitewater | scandal clintons involved in |
| NAFTA | NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT/ us remove all tariffs |
| dot com boom | contributes to the growth in 1990s |
| election 2000 | bush v gore/ florida recounts |