Consciousness Revolution Flashcards

(30 cards)

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Muhammad Ali

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African American boxer, world champion of heavyweight class. Black Muslim, used to be Cassius Clay.

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Apollo 11

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The space vehicle that carried 3 three American astronauts to the moon and back in 1969.

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As not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country

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JFK saying.

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Bay of pigs

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Location of Cuban missile crisis

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Black Muslims

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Radical movement for black power rejected Christianity.

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Black panthers

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Black power organization, Huey Newton.

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James Earl Carter

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President, peanut farmer and navel officer, cautious.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Federal action against segregation in public stuff.

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Civil Rights Movement

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Effort made by black people to end segregation and gain equal rights.

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Counterculture

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Protest movement by American youth

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Counterculture

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Protest movement by American youth.

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Generad Ford

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President communicate batter with congress watergate scandal.

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Betty Friedan

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Author and political activist, feminine mystique. National organization for women.

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Hippies

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Cultural protest, free love, drugs, say no to Vietnam War.

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Jimmy Haffa

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Leader who built teamsters union into a powerful organization despite corruption, probably murdered.

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Nelson Mandela

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Prominent leader of south aftican blacks struggle against apartheid. President of South Africa, co winner of Nobel prize for peace.

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Mother Teresa

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Roman Catholic nun who received the Nobel prize for peace for humanitarian work among lepers and other dying of Calcutta.

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My lai massacre

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Mass killings of helpless inhabitants of a village in Vietnam war.

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New Left

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Radical movement where new leftists opposed the military industrial complex and involvement of the us in Vietnam war.

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Richard Nixon

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Member of congress strong support for investigation of alleged communist, President that was in danger of being impeached so he quit.

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Religious Right

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Right wing Protestant fundamentalist leaders active in politics.

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Roe vs Wade

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Controversial supreme courts decision in 1973 on the right to privacy, abortion.

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Silent Majority

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Richard nixion where he thought that the maturity believed him and only the noisy where speaking up against him.

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Six day war

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Fought in 1967 by Israel vs Egypt Syria and Japan, Israel wins and took/held some land.

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Three mile island
Location of accident of a neclear power plant.
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Vietnam war
Southeast Asia north Vietnam vs south. South was taken over by north communists.
27
Voting rights act of 1945
No literary tests that were used to restrict black people.
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Watergate
Incident that made Richard Nixon resign. Burgulary cover up by Nixon, secret tapes revealed.
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Watts Riots
Disturbance in watts, large black population in Los Angeles in 1966, over 30 people died, black people and police fights.
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Woodstock
Village in New York State where 400000 people gathered for a rock music festival.