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Bringer of Light is the meaning for ______.

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Ho Chi Minh

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_______ ended the war in Vietnam.

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Richard Nixon

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The _________ Offensive consisted of North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces on the Vietnamese New Year.

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Tet

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Guardsmen opened fire on students at ______.

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Kent State

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The ___ were the regular army of North Vietnam.

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Vietminh

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The United States turned defense of South Vietnam over to the Vietnamese through _____________.

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Vietnamization

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What event threw the Democratic Party into chaos during this time?

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the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution of _____ was rescinded by the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

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1964

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A(n) _________ was a place where members of the hippie counterculture lived together without private property.

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commune

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The type of war fought in Vietnam was called a war of ____________.

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containment

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People who chose to evade the draft were called draft ____________.

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dodgers

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The oil producing and exporting nations are often called _________

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OPEC

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The automobile industry caused ___ to become an important export from Indochina.

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rubber

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The United States interfered in Vietnam trying to stop the ___________ effect of nations falling to communism.

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domino

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Operation Rolling ___________ was the name of the U.S. bombing operation at the beginning of the Vietnam War.

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Thunder

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The _________ Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.

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Twenty-sixth

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A relaxing of tensions between the United States and communist powers was termed ___________.

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détente

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Several small nations on the Indochina peninsula were put together to form ___.

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French Indochina

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The ___ Trail was used by the North Vietnamese to supply their troops.

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Ho Chi Minh

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The ______ family brought suit for the right of silent protest.

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Tinker

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The ___ controlled Indochina during World War II.

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Japanese

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What caused the credibility gap that existed for President Johnson in the early 1970s?

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Americans became skeptical of reports regarding the progress of the war after the Tet Offensive.

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A war was fought between Israel and Arab nations on the Israeli holiday called ____________.

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Yom Kippur

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Affirmative action programs have been criticized as ___ discrimination.

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reverse

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_____ means the number or percentage of minorities that were to be recruited.
Quota
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______ gave Native Americans on the reservation the same rights as other citizens.
Indian Civil Rights Act
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a strong preference or treatment based upon a person's sex
gender bias
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a group that believes women's rights are equal to men's rights
feminists
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The term ___ meant that agencies, businesses, and universities would take positive steps to insure the inclusion of minorities.
affirmative action
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______ are lands owned by Native Americans that are not subject to governmental control.
Reservations
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Who chaired President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women?
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The ___ of President Johnson included environmental programs.
Great Society
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The word Ecology was used to denote ___.
concern for the preservation of natural resources
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______ is a pesticide that caused the death of many animals.
DDT
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What was the name of Betty Friedan's important book on women's issues?
The Feminine Mystique
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The Equal Rights Amendment ___.
failed to be ratified by the required number of states
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______ wrote Silent Spring.
Rachel Carson
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Alcatraz and ___________ were sites of Native American protests.
Wounded Knee
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By 1960, there were approximately ___ Hispanics living in the United States.
three million
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_______ means the type of segregation that occurs based upon where people live.
Natural segregation
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As a result of Mendez v. Westminster, _______ signed legislation ending discrimination against Hispanic school children in California.
Earl Warren
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_______ founded the American G.I. Forum.
Dr. Hector Garcia
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___ ruled that education is not a fundamental right.
San Antonio v. Rodriguez
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The court case ___ guaranteed that parents' interests outweighed the interests of the state.
Wisconsin v. Yoder
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The Supreme Court recognized that Hispanics were often treated as a recognized ___.
class
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The men who broke into the Democratic Campaign Headquarters were charged with ________.
burglary
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Latinos were considered ___.
part of the White race
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Hispanics who were discriminated against could sue on the basis of ________ bias.
racial
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___ allowed forced busing as a means of integrating public schools.
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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Discrimination against Hispanics in Texas schools ended in 1957 in ___.
Herminca Hernandez et al. v. Consolidated ISD
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Hispanics were often treated as migrant workers, even when they were ________ residents.
permanent
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The President's conversations in the ______________ were recorded.
Oval Office
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In 1989, the court case ___ required a more equitable system of public school funding in Texas.
Edgewood v. Kirby
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In 1972, Republican Party workers broke into Democratic Campaign Headquarters at the ___.
Watergate Hotel
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By 1960, there were approximately ___ Hispanics living in the United States.
three million
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As a result of Mendez v. Westminster, _______ signed legislation ending discrimination against Hispanic school children in California.
Earl Warren
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_______ founded the American G.I. Forum
Dr. Hector Garcia
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___ ruled that education is not a fundamental right.
San Antonio v. Rodriguez
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The court case ___ guaranteed that parents' interests outweighed the interests of the state.
Wisconsin v. Yoder
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The Supreme Court recognized that Hispanics were often treated as a recognized ___.
class
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The men who broke into the Democratic Campaign Headquarters were charged with ________.
burglary
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Latinos were considered ___.
part of the White race
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Hispanics who were discriminated against could sue on the basis of ________ bias.
racial
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___ allowed forced busing as a means of integrating public schools.
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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Discrimination against Hispanics in Texas schools ended in 1957 in ___.
Herminca Hernandez et al. v. Consolidated ISD
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Hispanics were often treated as migrant workers, even when they were ________ residents.
permanent
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The President's conversations in the ______________ were recorded.
Oval Office
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In 1989, the court case ___ required a more equitable system of public school funding in Texas.
Edgewood v. Kirby
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The ____ supported workers during a table grapes strike in California.
UFWA
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_______ refers to the effort to preserve the freedom of countries by stopping the spread of communism.
Containment
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The ___________ Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
Twenty-sixth
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The ___________ were North Vietnamese sympathizers in South Vietnam.
Viet Cong
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Minority issues in the 1970s included ________, housing, and discrimination in the work place.
education
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_______ testified that President Nixon knew about the Watergate break-in.
John Dean
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________ is the movement that supports environmental causes.
Ecology
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__________ of the Educational Amendments guaranteed that girls could participate in public school activities.
Title IX
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_________ is a set of positive steps for insuring that minorities are represented.
Affirmative action
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______ is the Vietnamese New Year.
Tet
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______ organized farm laborers.
Dolores Huerta
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The ________ War started on an Israeli holiday.
Yom Kippur
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Was Roe v. Wade a minority or educational issue?
minority
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France placed several nations together in southeastern Asia to create French __________.
Indochina
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______ is a term used to describe the concern that nations of Asia would fall one after another to communism.
Domino effect
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__________ was the process of turning over the defense of South Vietnam to the South Vietnamese.
Vietnamization

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