4/18/2013

Question 1

a top-secret study of U.S. decision making in Vietnam, seven thousand pages, On June 13, 1971, the New York Times published a front-page article on them

Answer 1

Pentagon Papers

Question 2

a Southwest-based political party, registered tens of thousands of voters and won local elections

Answer 2

La Raza

Question 3

Indians of All Tribes,that demanded that the land be returned to native peoples for an Indian cultural center. The protest, which lasted nineteen months and eventually involved more than four hundred people from fifty different tribes, marked the consolidation of pan Indian activism

Answer 3

Alcatraz Island Protest

Question 4

Positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and business from which they have been historically excluded.

Answer 4

Affirmative Action

Question 5

who wrote The Feminine Mystique-
signaled that there was energy for a revived women’s movement. Writing as a house wife and mother (though she had a long history of political activism), she described “the problem with no name,”

Answer 5

Betty Friedan

Question 6

The organized, liberal wing of the women’s movement emerged in 1966 with the founding of the _____
Consisting primarily of educated, professional women, it was a lobbying group seeking to pressure the EEOC to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Answer 6

National Organization of Women (NOW)

Question 7

ended discrimination on the basis of sex.
On March 22, 1972, Congress approved the amendment, which stated that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” But the STOP-ERA movement ended the _______. Despite Congress’s deadline extension, the amendment fell three states short of ratification and expired in 1982

Answer 7

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 8

which barred federal funds from colleges or universities discriminating against women. Universities then began channeling money to women’s athletics, and women’s participation in sports boomed

Answer 8

Title IX

Question 9

led the STOP-ERA movement, a lawyer and conservative political activist. She attacked the women’s movement as “a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother.”

Answer 9

Phyllis Schlafly

Question 10

begins gay liberation movement.
a gay bar in Greenwich Village, where several men were arrested for violating a city law that made it illegal for more than three homosexual patrons to occupy a bar at the same time.

Answer 10

Stonewall Inn

Question 11

1st president to resign

Answer 11

Richard Nixon

Question 12

Nixon’s national security adviser

Answer 12

Henry Kissinger

Question 13

helped limit domestic dissent, but it did not end the stalemate in the Paris peace talks

Answer 13

Vietnamization

Question 14

Nixon intensified the bombing of North Vietnam and enemy supply depots in neighboring _____, hoping to pound Hanoi into concessions. The bombing of neutral _______ commenced in March 1969. in April 1970 South Vietnamese and U.S. forces invaded ______________.

Answer 14

Cambodia

Question 15

May 4, National Guardsmen in Ohio fired into a crowd of fleeing students at ________, killing four and wounding eleven

Answer 15

Kent State University

Question 16

Led to The 1971 court-martial and conviction of Lieutenant William Calley, charged with overseeing the killing of more than three hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians

Answer 16

My Lai massacre

Question 17

ends U.S. involvement in Vietnam

Answer 17

Paris Peace Accords

Question 18

On April 29, 1975, the South Vietnamese government collapsed, and Vietnam was reunified under a communist government in Hanoi. _____ was renamed Ho Chi Minh City for the persevering patriot who died in 1969

Answer 18

fall of Saigon

Question 19

limited the president’s war-making freedom and required congressional approval before committing U.S. forces to combat lasting more than sixty days

Answer 19

War Powers Act of 1973

Question 20

measured cooperation with the Soviets through negotiations within an environment of rivalry. Its primary purpose was to check Soviet expansion and limit the Soviet arms buildup through diplomacy and mutual concessions

Answer 20

Détente

Question 21

In May 1972 the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to the ____ to slow the arms race by limiting intercontinental ballistic missiles and antiballistic missile defenses

Answer 21

ABM Treaty

Question 22

In early 1972 Nixon made a historic trip to ——where he and Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai agreed to disagree on many issues, except one: the Soviet Union should not be permitted to make gains in Asia. Sino-American relations improved slightly, and official diplomatic recognition came in 1979.

Answer 22

Nixon’s visit China

Question 23

In October 1973, on the Jewish High Holy Day Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, primarily seeking revenge for the 1967 defeat

Answer 23

Yom Kippur War

Question 24

increases oil prices, creating U.S. energy crisis.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries—Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, and Algeria—imposed an embargo on oil shipments to the United States and other Israeli allies. The move was in retaliation against U.S. support of Israel in the two-week-old Yom Kippur War

Answer 24

OPEC

Question 25

voters in Chile elected a Marxist president, ___, in 1970 the CIA secretly encouraged military officers to stage a coup. In 1973 a military junta ousted Him and installed an authoritarian regime under General Augusto Pinochet. Washington publicly denied any role

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Salvador Allende

Question 26

shifting federal government authority to states and localities

Answer 26

Devolution

Question 27

Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes first person to walk on moon’s surface

Answer 27

Apollo XI

Question 28

becomes first person to walk on moon’s surface on July 20, 1969, saying, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant step for mankind.”

Answer 28

Neil Armstrong

Question 29

a progressive senator from South Dakota and strong opponent of the Vietnam War

Answer 29

George McGovern

Question 30

On June 17, five men from the _____, were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s offices at the Watergate apartment and office complex in Washington, D.C.

Answer 30

CREEP

Question 31

scandal that causes Nixon to resign

Answer 31

Watergate

Question 32

formed a secret group called the Plumbers. Their first job was to break into the office of the psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, the former Pentagon employee who made the Pentagon Papers public, looking for material to discredit him

Answer 32

Charles Colson

Question 33

two relatively unknown reporters for the Washington Post,
stayed on the Watergate story. Aided by an anonymous, highly placed government official whom they code-named Deep Throat they followed a money trail leading straight to the White House.

Answer 33

Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

Question 34

White House Counsel _____, fearful that he was becoming the fall guy for the Watergate fiasco, gave damning testimony.

Answer 34

John Dean

Question 35

resigned, following charges that he accepted bribes while governor of Maryland

Answer 35

Spiro Agnew

Nixons Vice President

Question 36

the nation’s first unelected president, faced a cynical nation

Answer 36

Gerald Ford

Question 37

president after Ford, he was elected in1976 by a slim margin
a born-again Christian, promised the United States, “I will never lie to you,” underscoring his distance from Washington’s recent political corruption

Answer 37

Jimmy Carter

Question 38

a stagnant economy characterized by high unemployment combined with out-of-control inflation

Answer 38

Stagflation

Question 39

nuclear accident raises fears.

In 1979 human error contributed to a nuclear accident at the ______ nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Answer 39

Three Mile Island

Question 40

signed by Israel and Egypt.
the crowning accomplishment of Carter’s presidency
the first mediated peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation.

Answer 40

Camp David Accords

Question 41

invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979 and revived Cold War tensions.
a remote country whose strategic position made it a source of great-power conflict.

Answer 41

Afghanistan

Question 42

He also secretly authorized the CIA to distribute aid, including arms and military support, to the _____ (Islamic guerillas) fighting the communist government and sanctioned military aid to their backer, Pakistan

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Mujahidin

Question 43

in April 1979 Islamic revolutionaries, led by the ______, an elderly cleric who denounced the United States as the stronghold of capitalism and western materialism, proclaimed a Shi’ite Islamic Republic

Answer 43

Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 44

former Hollywood actor and governor of California.

Elected president after carter

Answer 44

Ronald Reagan