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Standard 8 - Terms & Definitions Flashcards

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Nixon’s campaign slogan: he used it to communicate that race riots (among other things) would be put down during his presidency

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“Law and Order”

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Program that Clinton and the Republicans passed in the 90’s to reduce the number of people on welfare

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“Welfare to Work”

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Line that divided Vietnam in Communist and Non-Communist Zones before fighting broke out

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17th Parallel

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Military chemicals used in Vietnam that caused many to wonder if our government was in the right

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Agent Orange / Napalm

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Alabama city where protests, boycotts, and sit ins were used to draw national attention to Jim Crow laws in the South

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Birmingham

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Militant African American political organization that fought for equal rights - their tactics often scared white people

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Black Panthers

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Movement designed to restore pride to the AA community; was often criticized for being too militant

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Black Power

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Supreme Court case that desegregated schools & overturned Plessey v. Ferguson

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS

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The idea that an immoral law can be broken peacefully to draw attention to it.

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Civil Disobedience

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Law that made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Group that wants smaller government, less change in society, and more personal freedom

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Conservatives / Reublicans

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Nixon’s attempt to lessen tensions between the US and Russia

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Détente

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Political party formed when southern Democrats were frustrated with Truman’s desegregation of the military. They wouldn’t vote Republican, but didn’t like what the Democrats were doing either.

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Dixiecrats

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The Cold War-era idea that if one country fell to Communism, all the others around it would also fall. This idea pushed us to involvement in both Korea and Vietnam.

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Domino Theory

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Proposed Constitutional Amendment that would have made it illegal to discriminate in any way based on sex. It was defeated.

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Organization of European countries that parallels the US’s Federal System - together these countries make economic decisions that impact all of the member states

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European Union

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Event when black & white students rode together in buses into the south to test whether they were allowing desegregated interstate travel. Many were beaten.

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Freedom Rides

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Mid-1960’s event when many middle class white students tried to help poorer AA’s in the South register to vote. Violence ensued.

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Freedom Summer

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The agreement that lowered tariffs among many developed countries around the world

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GATT

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Agreement between N&S Vietnam agreeing that an election would be held to determine if it would become Communist or Democratic

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Geneva Accords

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Gorbechev’s policy of “openness” in the media - the government would control the media less than it had in the past

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Glastnost

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Series of laws passed under LBJ to try to desegregate society & bring a higher standard of living to poorer Americans (Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, etc.)

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Great Society

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23
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People who support going to war

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Hawks

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Part of LBJ’s Great Society designed to help educate poor inner city preschoolers

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Head Start

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Communist leader of North Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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The trail used to supply the Viet Cong in South Vietnam with weapons & supplies. Nixon bombed it and in doing so, expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia.

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Ho Chi Minh Trail

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The US fought two wars against this Middle Eastern country led by Saddam Hussein - the first was because he tried to control Kuwait’s oil, the second was because he may have had Weapons of Mass Destruction

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Iraq

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Under this President, inflation increased, the US experienced an energy crisis, and hostages were taken at the American embassy in Iran.

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Jimmy Carter

29
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Ohio University where the National Guard killed five students who were protesting the Vietnam War

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Kent State

30
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Group that wants a stronger government, more changes in society, and more regulation on businesses.

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Liberals

31
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Civil rights leader who sometimes advocated violence against whites

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Malcom X

32
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The government program that helps poorer citizens pay for health care

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Medicaid

33
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The government program that helps elderly citizens pay for health care

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Medicare

34
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Leader of Russia who took over in the mid ’80s and brought about a number of reforms such as “glastnost” and “perestroika”

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Mikhail Gorbachev

35
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After the arrest of Rosa Parks, this movement brought about the end of segregated bus seating in the South by encouraging all AA’s to refuse spending $$ on the Montgomery Bus system

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

36
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Event in Vietnam where American soldiers opened fire on unarmed men, women, and children - this caused Americans to question their government further

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My Lai Massacre

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Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico reducing tariffs and other barriers to free trade.

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NAFTA

38
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Organization dedicated to fighting for equality of women in America - copies many tactics used in the Civil Rights movement

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National Organization of Women (NOW)

39
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Law passed during the Bush administration stating that students should be tested to make sure they’re getting the basic skills they need

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No Child Left Behind

40
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Arab organization dedicated to the eradication (wiping out) of the state of Israel

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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

41
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Documents leaked during the Vietnam Era indicating that the US government hadn’t been totally truthful to the people about actions in Vietnam

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Pentagon Papers

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“Trickle Down” or “Supply Side” economics - The idea that if corporations and rich people have more $$, it will filter down to the other classes as well.

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Reaganomics

43
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States such as SC in which workers do not have to be members of unions in order to hold a job

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Right to Work States

44
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Supreme court case that legalized abortion in the US

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Roe v. Wade

45
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Part of the country where a number of factories have closed down as jobs moved overseas or to the south

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Rust Belt

46
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March organized where the AA marchers were planning on registering to vote. The march was broken up violently by police. News crews captured the images & sent them around the country. As a direct result, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.

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Selma March

47
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Type of diplomacy where the US had a negotiator travel between hostile Middle Eastern countries

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Shuttle Diplomacy

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Nixon’s election strategy in which he stated that the South could determine on its own how to obey laws about desegregation. As a result, the South began voting for him & future Republicans.

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Southern Strategy

49
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When the economy doesn’t grow, but inflation is increasing

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Stagflation

50
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Conservatives usually believe in this type of economics in which $$ is given to the wealthy in order to create jobs so that lower and middle class workers can obtain wealth

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Supply Side (or Trickle Down) Economics

51
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Period in the late 2000’s (beginning in 2008) when many Americans lost their jobs and homes

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The Great Recession

52
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Resolution passed by Congress allowing LBJ to deploy troops to Vietnam without further approval from Congress

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Tonkin Gulf Resolution

53
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North Vietnamese Communists who fought against the South

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Viet Cong

54
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Nixon’s plan to train the Vietnamese to fight against the Viet Cong so that the US could pull troops out.

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Vietnamization

55
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Law passed by LBJ making it illegal to use poll taxes and literacy tests

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

56
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Law restricting the President’s power to deploy troops without the consent of Congress (passed after Vietnam)

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War Powers Act

57
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Name of the hotel (and scandal) where Nixon’s campaign advisors broke into the Democratic Headquarters. This led to Nixon’s resignation so he could avoid being impeached.

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Watergate

58
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Term for people who are usually against going to war

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Doves

59
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Term for the Southern states where many factories moved from the 1960’s on

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Sun Belt

60
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Gorbechav’s economic policy of “restructuring” to be more like a free market economy

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Perestroika

61
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Trend in the 1980’s of having less government oversight in industry

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Deregulation

62
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Conservative Republican President in the 1980’s who believed in Trickle Down Economics, Deregulation, and increased defense spending.

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Ronald Reagan

63
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During the 1980’s and early 1990’s the income gap between rich and poor got ______________

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Wider

64
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During the Clinton era, the national debt _______________

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Decreased - we had a budget surplus!

65
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Hyperinflation was a problem face primarily in which decade?

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1970’s

66
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What major impact has globalization had on the American economy?

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We now have access to more goods at cheaper prices

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