Chatham US History Final Exam Mr. Braun
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- elected in 1960. Roman Catholic. Youthful. good-looking. questionable election returns from dead people. beautiful wife and family. appointed brotherRobert Kennedy as Attorney General. congressional opposition. urban renewal. mental retard help. to the m
- JFK
- President from rural Texas. not highly educated or handsome or rich. Liberal, embaraced minorities, wanted opertunities for everyone. Lady Bird: active wife, completely opposite of Jackie O. He was very experienced in government, knew how to get things d
- LBJ & The Great Society
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Medical insurance from the government for the elderly. Pay percentage.
Medical plan to help people with low income. Free. - Medicare and Medicaid
- get children better prepared for school. Preschool. Seaseme Street.
- Headstart
- On October 1st, 1962, he became the first black student at the University of Mississippi after being barred from entering on September 20. His enrollment, opposed by Governor Ross Barnett, sparked riots on the Oxford campus, which required federal troops
- James Meredith
- Student volunteers, African-American and white, rode in interstate buses into the pro-segregationist U.S. South to test the 1960 United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454, which outlawed racial segregation in interstate publi
- "freedom rides"
- The letter is a response to a statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen on April 12, 1963 titled "A Call For Unity" which agreed that social injustices were taking place but believed that the battles should be taken solely to the court no
- Martin Luther King and the letter from Birmingham jail.
- The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large political rally that took place on August 28, 1963. It was organized principally by A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King Jr. During this March, King delivered his famous "I
- March on Washington
- Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched during the summer of 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in the southern states. Over 1,000 volunteers helped meet at Western College in Oxford, Ohio (Merged
- "freedom summer"
- made it illegal to deny voters because of race of illiteracy. Supported the 15th Ammendment
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- black population of a state university should mirror black population of state
- Affrimative Action
- an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Thurgood Marshall
- During his life, hewent from being a promising young student to a street-wise Boston hoodlum to one of the most prominent black nationalist leaders in the United States to a martyr of Islam. As a militant leader, he advocated black pride, economic self-r
- Malcom X
- a controversial African American civil rights and self-defense organization active within the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Founded by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Richard Aoki in October 1966, the organization initially espoused a doctri
- Black Panthers
- the site of the failed Invasion during John F. Kennedy's presidency - a 1961 US-backed invasion by Cuban exiles intent on overthrowing Fidel Castro, at a beach called Playa Giron. The incident may have been a driving force behind the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Bay Of Pigs
- Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and approved by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the wall was a long separation barrier between West Berlin and East Germany, which permanently closed the border between East and West Berlin
- Berlin Wall
- a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis started on October 16, 1962, when U.S. reconnaissance was shown to U.S. President John F. Kennedy r
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- facilitated increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The Resolution was approved by the House unanimously (416-0), and by the Senate 88-2, with Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska casting the only nay votes. Although there
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- leader of North Vietnam during the Vietname war
- Ho Chi Minh
- n insurgent (partisan) organization fighting the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The NLF was funded, equipped and staffed by both South Vietnamese and the army of North Vietnam.
- Viet Cong
- the phenomenon of something getting worse step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, military presence and nuclear armament during the Cold War.
- escalation
- was a series of operational offensives during the Vietnam War. The Tết Offensive resulted in a crushing operational defeat for the North Vietnamese.
- Tet Offensive
- April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m., on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Friends inside the motel room heard the shots fired and ran to the balcony to find King shot in the throat. He was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p
- MLK Jr. Assassination
- as fatally wounded by a gunshot in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, and died 25 hours later. The convicted assassin, 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan B. Sirhan, attributed the killing to Kennedy's support for Israel during and after the Six-Day War, although t
- Robert Kennedy Assassination
- n American politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat four times (1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982) and ran for U.S. President four times as well (in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976). He is best known for his pro-segregation attitudes, which he late
- George Wallace
- was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was also the 36th Vice President (1953–1961) serving under Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nixon redefined the office of Vice President, making it for the first time a high visibility pla
- Richard Nixon
- historically, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of that country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.<
- Students for a Democratic Society
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a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s
This movement was a reaction against the conservative social morals of the 1950s, the political conservatism (and perceived social repression) of the Cold W - Hippies/Counterculture
- famous for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement
- Haight Ashbury
- a slogan used by hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of the non-violence ideology
- flower power
- an American farm worker, labor leader, and activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.
- Cesar Chavez
- name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand
- Gay Liberation
- The Feminine Mystique
- Betty Friedan
- a form of Difference feminism which emphasizes the traditional roles of women while also advocating their equality with men.
- New Feminism
- was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that most laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy, overturning all state laws outlawing or restricting abortion. It is one of the most controversial decisions in U.S. Su
- Roe v. Wade
- a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would guarantee equal rights under the law for Americans regardless of sex.
- ERA
- a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-born zoologist and marine biologist whose landmark book, Silent Spring, is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. Silent Spring had an immense effect in the United States, where it spurred a reve
- Rachel Carson
- name used by two different observances held annually in the (northern) spring, both intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment
- Earth Day
- he tanker hit Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled an estimated 11 to 30 million U.S. gallons of crude oil. As a result of the spill thousands of animals perished immediately.
- Exxon Valdez
- a massacre committed by U.S. soldiers on hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968, in the village of My Lai, during the Vietnam War. It prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced American suppor
- My Lai
- nickname given to a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. killed plants and people
- Agent Orange
- a military campaign during the Vietnam War involving a limited-objective invasion of Cambodia in 1970. The campaign was known officially in the U.S. Army as the Sanctuary Counteroffensive.
- Cambodian incursion
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involved the shooting of students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The altercation killed four students and wounded nine others.
A group of student protesters were confronted by the police and National Guardsmen. The police o - Kent State and Jackson State
- Nixon's idea that the US should only withdraw from Vietnam when the US will look the least weak for doing so
- Peace with Honor
- 30th April, the capture of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army on April 30, 1975. marked the end of the Vietnam War and the unification of the country under communist rule.
- the fall of Saigon
- first time a U.S. president had visited the People's Republic of China, which at the time did not maintain diplomatic relations with the U.S. At the conclusion of his trip, the United States and the PRC Governments issued the Shanghai Communiqué, a stat
- detente and Nixon's visit to China
- supreme court descion that a person must be read their "right to remain silent"
- Gideon v. Wainright
- a landmark 5-4 decision of the United States Supreme Court which was argued February 28–March 1, 1966 and decided June 13, 1966. The Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right agains
- Miranda v. Arizona
- an important United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools. The Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the perceived problem of racial imbalance among schools, even where the i
- Swann v. Charlotte Board of Education
- In October 1972, The Washington Post reported the FBI had determined Nixon aides had spied on and sabotaged numerous Democratic presidential candidates as a part of the operations that led to the infamous Watergate scandal. During the campaign five burgl
- the Watergate Crisis
- OAPEC announced that they would no longer ship oil to countries that supported Israel
- OAPEC oil embargo
- He served as National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State in the Nixon administration, continuing in the latter position after Gerald Ford became President in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.
- Henry Kissinger
- the 38th (1974–1977) President of the United States. He also served as the 40th (1973–1974) Vice President. He was the first person appointed to the Vice-Presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and upon succession to the presidency became t
- Gerald Ford
- he 39th President of the United States. In 1976, Carter won the Democratic nomination as a dark horse candidate, and went on to defeat incumbent Gerald Ford in the close 1976 presidential election. As president his major accomplishments included the crea
- Jimmy Carter
- signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States P
- Camp David Accords
- treaties guaranteed that Panama would gain control of the Panama Canal after 1999, ending the control of the canal that the U.S. had exercised since 1903. The treaties are named after the two signatories, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panama's de facto
- Panama Canal treaty
- a 444-day (about 14 months) period during which student proxies of the new Iranian regime held hostage 52 diplomats and citizens of the United States, which lasted from November 4, 1979 until January 20, 1981. It is believed by many to have caused Presid
- Iran Hostage Crisis
- the location of a U.S. nuclear power plant that, on March 28, 1979, suffered a partial core meltdown. The Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station sits on an island in the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,
- Three Mile Island
- in Moscow was a part of a package of actions to protest against the December 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
- Olympics boycott