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won the election of 1964

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Lyndon B Johnson

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conservative form Arizona who ran against LBJ in 1964 election

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Barry M Goldwater

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President Johnson’s social welfare plan

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Great Society

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two major goals of the Great Society

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improve education

eradicate poverty

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act under Johnson’s Great Society that continued federal grants for the construction of college buildings and ensured student loans and grants

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Higher Education Act of 1965

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granted the first direct federal funding of local public schools

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Elementary and Secondary Education Act

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was intended to raise the standard of living in the Appalachian Mountain region

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Appalachian Development Act

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two new Cabinet-level offices established during the Johnson administration

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Department of Housing an Urban Development
Department of Transportation

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beca,e the largest public welfare program since the New Deal

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Great Society

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prohibited discrimination in renting or selling houses

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Fair Housing Act

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white supremacist organization

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Ku Klux Khan

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black separatist group

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Black Panthers

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the most prominent black separatist leader who considered Martin Luther King, Jr’s too peaceful

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Malcolm X

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prohibited racial discrimination in public places

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1964 Civil Rights Act

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outlawed poll taxes for national elections

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24th Amendment

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strengthened previous voting rights laws

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1965 Voting Rights

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the first black American cabinet officer

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Robert Weaver

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first black associate justice of the Supreme Court

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Thurgood Marshall

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Martin Luther King’s plan to end discrimination n

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nonviolent demonstrations

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year Martin Luther King was assassinated

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1968

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years for the Vietnam War

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1965-1973

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provided legal justification for US involvement in the Vietnam conflict

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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year Johnson sent the first combat troops to South Vietnam

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1965

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commanded the troops in South Vietnam

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General William C. Westmoreland

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series of devastating battles that exposed Congress's refusal to allow the AMerican military to take an offensive position and fight to win in Vietnam
Tet Offensive
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the Vietnam War divided the American public into
hawks (support the fight against Communism) doves (soft towards Communism)
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erupted in the Middle East when Egypt Jordan, and Syria attacked Israel in June 1967
Six-Day War
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US two-man projects
Gemini
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US three-man project
Apollo
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three astronauts that traveled on Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin, Jr. Michael Collins
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mission that put man on the moon
Apollo
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became the first baseplayer ever to score 100 points during a single professional game
Wilt Chamberlain
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the counterculture movement that attempted to erode the values of traditional American culture
hippie lifestyle
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emerged as the strongest Democratic contender for the Presidency in the election of 1968 but was assassinated
Robert F Kennedy
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assassinated Robert F Kennedy
Sirhan Sirhan
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Republican candidate for the election of 1968
Richard M Nixon
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won election of 1968
Richard M Nixon
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Nixon Administration concentrated on
bringing peace to Vietnam
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two college campuses where violent anti-ware demonstrations were held
Kent State Jackson State College
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lowered the voting age from 21 years to 18 years of age
26th Amendment
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was beaten by Nixon in the election of 1972
George McGovern
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year the US and North Vietnam signed a cease-fire agreement
1973
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the longest war the US was ever involved in
Vietnam War
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America's first no-win war
Vietnam
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an official policy of lessened hostility between nations
detente
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Nixon's secretary of state that was the spokesperson for the negotiation with Communist China
Henry Kissinger
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Nixon and Kissinger agreed to this with the Soviet leader agreement to limit production of nuclear arms
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty
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year President Nixon visited Communist China
1972
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when the Israelis drove the Egyptians back and prepared to invade Egypt
Yom Kippur War
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Middle East's reaction to Americans aiding the Israelis
Arab oil embargo
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a monopoly designed to control the supply and price of Middle eastern oil helped to send the American economy into a serious recession
OPEC
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Congress sought to lessen AMerican dependence on the Middle East oil by permitting several large oil companies to build the 800-mile-long
Alaska Pipeline
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during the Nixon Administration, the root cause of inflation was the
loose money policies of the Federal Reserve
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in 1972, Congress ruled against
capital punishment
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1973 Supreme Court decision that ruled in favor of abortion
Roe vs Wade
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Nixon's VP that resigned because he admitted to taking bribes and evading his income taxes
Spiro Agnew
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year in which several of Nixon's closest advisors had been convicted of criminal charges
1974
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political scandal that led to Nixon's resignation
Watergate affair
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became President when Nixon resigned
Gerald R Ford
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year President FORD officially announced the end of American involvement in Vietnam
1975
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after FORD announced the end of American involvement, the Communists took control of
Saigon Cambodia Laos
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won the election of 1976
James Carter
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Carter built his foreign policy on a concept known as
human rights
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President Carter acquiesced to the UN and negotiated the surrender of the
Panama Canal Zone
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Carter's policy of appeasement and reluctance to contain Communism with force no doubt encouraged the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan in December 1979
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was signed by Carter, Begin, and Sadat at a ceremony on the White House grounds
Camp David Peace accord
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for the first time on over 2000, Jews and Arabs sat down together and negotiated a peace treaty at the
Camp David Peace Accord
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a revolution deposed the ______________________ a friend of the US Carter refused to come to his aid
Shah of Iran
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a Muslim religious leader that led the Iranian rebel group that overtook the Shah of Iran took American embassy and held 63 hostages
Ayatollah Khomeini
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new Cabinet position created during the Carter Administration
secretary of energy
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offered a solution to the energy problem
atomic power
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the highlight of the 1970s
Bicentennial Celebration of 1976

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