Final Review Part 3 Eisenhower-Clinton 2 This law authorized giving hundreds of millions in federal...

Final Review Part 3

Eisenhower-Clinton

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This law authorized giving hundreds of millions in federal

money to schools for science and foreign language education

National Defense and Education Act

Eisenhower

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm

http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitution

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The 1957 policy which provided for U. S.

troops to be sent to a Middle Eastern

country at the request of that country's

governmentEisenhower Doctrine

Eisenhower



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A military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European

Communist satellites.

Warsaw Pact

Eisenhower



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This policy, encouraged by John Foster Dulles, stated

that if the Soviets took hostile action, the U. S.

would demolish them with nuclear bombs. It was

dropped in 1949 when the Soviet Union developed

nuclear capabilities• massive retaliation

Eisenhower



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A small artificial Soviet satellite launched into

space in 1957. This spread fear in the hearts of

Americans who felt that the U. S. was lagging

behind the USSR in science and technology• Sputnik

Eisenhower



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The downing of a U. S. spy plane by the

Soviet Union in 1960

U 2 Incident

Eisenhower



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John Foster Dulles' belief that the U. S. had to

show the Communists it was willing to use force

and go to the edge of war in order to keep the

peace in a nuclear agebrinksmanship

Eisenhower



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The first African American Supreme Court Justice, he

successfully argued for Brown in the famous 1954

case against the Topeka, KS Board of Education

Thurgood Marshall



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In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that

statements of policy were protected under the First

Amendment and that only statements leading

to dangerous actions could be prohibited

Yale v U.S.

Society in the 1950s



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This Arkansas Governor called out

the National Guard in 1957 to prevent black

children from attending Little Rock's

Central High School• Orville Faubus




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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he was appointed by President Eisenhower and wrote

the landmark decision in Brown V. Board of

Education, Topeka, KSEarl Warren




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He founded the "Beats", a literary

group that rejected the materialism of the

1950s• Jack Kerouac




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He built thousands of reasonably priced homes on small plots of land in Long Island, NY, which

served as a model for the post-World War II

suburbsWilliam J. Levitt




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This African American challenged a city

ordinance in 1955 by refusing to give up a bus

seat to a white person

• Rosa Parks




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This Supreme Court decision declared

Plessy v. Ferguson unconstitutional

Brown v Topeka




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This U. S.-Soviet agreement called for

the end of atmospheric testing of

nuclear devices

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Kennedy’s New Frontier



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The U. S. government agency which sought to assist developing countries by sending American volunteers

to teach and to provide technical

assistancePeace Corps




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Kennedy's Attorney General and his most controversial cabinet

appointee

Robert Kennedy




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The policy that JFK used when dealing with the

Communist Bloc. It called for the preparation of more conventional weapons to be

used against Soviet aggression, since nuclear weapons were to be used

only as a last resortFlexible Response



21

This African American Air Force veteran of the Korean

War attempted to enroll in the all-white University of

Mississippi, but was denied admission because he was

black. Five thousand federal troops had to be sent so that

he could registerJames Meredith




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Cuban exiles, secretly trained by the C. I. A. and

supplied by the U. S. government, attempted to invade the island and

overthrow Castro's Communist government

thereBay of Pigs




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The program of economic aid to Latin American countries initiated by President Kennedy to build on the good will established by FDR's Good Neighbor Policy

Alliance for Progress




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President Kennedy's Secretary of State who said during the Cuban Missile Crisis: We're

eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow

just blinked

• Dean Rusk




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Erected by the East German government to prevent an

embarrassing "Brain Drain" to the West, it was here that JFK assured

the West Germans and peoples fighting Communism throughout

the world that the U. S. would continue to protect them from

Soviet aggression

• Berlin Wall




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This 1962 U. S.-Soviet confrontation was the closest the world ever

came to global thermal nuclear war

• Cuban Missile Crisis




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The young American lieutenant who was

brought to trial for the My Lai massacre of

Vietnamese civilians

William Calley

Johnson’s Great Society



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After much investigation, it came to the conclusion that

Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President Kennedy

Warren Commission




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This federal law declared

discrimination on the basis of race and sex

to be illegal

• Civil Rights Act of 1964




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The belief in the 1950s and 1960s that the fall

of one nation to Communism would lead to the fall of

neighboring countriesDomino Theory




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The widespread public suspicion that

President Johnson's statements about the Vietnam War were not

trustworthyCredibility Gap




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A provision of federal law that prohibited

discrimination on the basis of sex in many

educational programs receiving federal funds

Title IX




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The belief in the 1950s and 1960s that the fall

of one nation to Communism would lead to the fall of

neighboring countriesDomino Theory




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President Johnson's domestic programs for social renovation that

included VISTA, Job Corps and Head Start.

War on Poverty




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This federal law defended the right of African Americans in the South to register

to vote

Voting Rights Act




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A government insurance program under the

Social Security System that pays for the

medical care of elderly citizens

• Medicare




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In this legislation, Congress gave President Johnson full authority to

employ U. S. armed forces in Vietnam

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution



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This conservative Republican Senator from

Arizona, who ran unsuccessfully against Johnson in 1964, said that Extremism in the

defense of liberty is no vice

Barry Goldwater



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A federally funded program for

disadvantaged pre-school children

Head Start




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The full-scale attack by Communist forces in 1968 against major South Vietnam cities

Tet Offensive




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This U. S. Supreme Court case (1966) ruled that

police officers must inform an arrested person of his or her constitutional rights

before they could question that suspect

Miranda v Arizona

Turbulent 1960s



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A major women's organization whose purpose is to end

discrimination of all kinds on the basis of gender

N.O.W.

Turbulent 1960s



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A revolutionary group of African Americans who

believed in violent methods for

remedying racial injusticesBlack Panthers

Turbulent 1960s



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In this 1963 case, the Supreme Court declared

that states must provide an attorney to a defendant in a criminal case if they are too

poor to pay for one

• Gideon v WainwrightTurbulent 1960s



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He said: That's one small step for man; one giant leap for

mankind in the summer of 1969.

Neil Armstrong

Turbulent 1960s



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This seventy-day stand in South Dakota by Native

American rights activists attempted to dramatize

Indian suffering and call for preferential hiring and

government reimbursement for lands taken from them

in the pastWounded Knee

Turbulent 1960s



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He worked to win rights for migrant

farmers. He is most famous for a strike he

organized with the help of grape pickers in California in 1965

Cesar Chavez

Turbulent 1960s



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Founded by Elijah Muhammed, they rejected anything related to white

culture and championed the

creation of a separate black nationBlack Muslims

Turbulent 1960s



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These urban riots in Los Angeles in 1965 were

fueled by frustration and despair among African

Americans who felt that the civil rights techniques of the early 1960s were not

generating enough changes for most blacks in AmericaWatts Riots

Turbulent 1960s



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Social reformer and author of The Feminine Mystique, a book that

had a great influence on the development of the

modern feminist movementBetty Friedan

Turbulent 1960s



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This consumer advocate's book,

Unsafe At Any Speed, accused the auto

industry of emphasizing speed

and style over safety and economyRalph Nader

Turbulent 1960s



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An organization of African American Southern leaders,

including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that

conducted peaceful civil rights demonstrations

SCLC

Turbulent 1960s



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Those who opposed continuing U. S. involvement in

Vietnam

Doves

Turbulent 1960s



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This outdoor gathering of over 400,000 young people in upstate New York in 1969 became a major "happening" of

the countercultureWoodstock

Turbulent 1960s



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Initially an advocate of violence, this Black Muslim orator later

changed to black separatism after traveling to Mecca. He drifted

away from the Black Muslims and began advocating some

compromise with white society, but was soon assassinated in

1965

Malcolm X

Turbulent 1960s



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A form of protest in the early 1960s in which African

American and white Americans joined together to desegregate buses and

bus depots used in interstate commerce

Freedom Riders

Turbulent 1960s



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Young people of the 1960s who protested the Vietnam war and adopted

a style of dress and behavior that defied conventional tastes

Hippies

Turbulent 1960s



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This biologist's book, Silent Spring, alerted the nation about the dangers to the environment from the use of pesticides in

agriculture

Rachel Carson

Turbulent 1960s



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Those who supported the continuation of U. S.

involvement in Vietnam

• hawks

Turbulent 1960s



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Student protest over President Nixon's bombing of Cambodia in 1970 ended in tragedy here when several were killed by

National Guardsmen trying to break up their protests

• Kent State

Nixon and the Imperial Presidency



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A 1972 agreement between the

superpowers to limit the production of specific

types of nuclear weapons

• SALT I




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President Nixon's policy of reducing the number of U. S. troops in South Vietnam

coupled with the strengthening of the South

Vietnam armed forces

• Vietnamization




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A federal agency for enforcing U. S. laws to

protect the nation's land, air, and water from

pollution

• EPA




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The White House "plumber" who plotted

the Watergate break-in, he currently is the host of a right-wing conservative

radio talk show

• G. Gordy Liddy




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President Nixon's policy of giving the

states greater responsibility for

controlling welfare and other government

programs• New Federalism




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Nixon's Vice President, he was forced to resign when it was discovered that he

had taken bribes from contractors when he was governor of Maryland and was still receiving "kick-

backs" while Vice President• Spiro Agnew




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A term used to describe the economy during Nixon's

presidency because business was not growing

and inflation was rising out of control

stagflation




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This Defense Department official leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press. Nixon had his office burglarized

by White House "plumbers", seeking damaging evidence

against him

Daniel Ellsberg




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The relaxation of strained political

relations and Cold War tensions between the

superpowers

detente

Nixon and the imperial Presidency



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President Nixon's policy of telling Asian countries

that they would be responsible for their own

military defense in the future

Nixon Doctrine




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This 1973 legislation had Congress place strict

limits on a President's power to engage in a foreign war without

Congressional consent

War Powers Act




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They ended the war between North

Vietnam and the U. S. in 1973

Paris Accords




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Democratic candidate Walter Mondale became the first presidential candidate of a major political party to

choose a women as his running mate in 1984. She

was a Congresswoman from New York

Geraldine Ferraro

Ronald Reagan and the New Conservatism



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Ronald Reagan's controversial Secretary

of the Interior, he outraged

environmentalists by opening federal lands to unlimited access by coal and timber companies

James Watt




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This Attorney General led an attack on suspected

anarchists and Communists in 1919

A. Mitchell Palmer

WWI



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This illegal conspiracy of the Reagan administration

provided funding for anti-Communist rebels in

Nicaragua by secretly selling missiles to the Ayatollah

Koumeini's government and diverting the money to the

Nicaraguan rebelsIran Contra Affair




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The policy of reducing taxes in order to leave

business with more money to invest in

productive enterprises

Supply Side Economics




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In 1983, 241 Marines were killed here in a terrorist bombing of

their barracks

Lebanon




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Nicaraguan rebel group supported by the Reagan administration who tried

to overthrow the Sandinista government

Contras




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She was the first woman Justice

appointed to the Supreme Court

Sandra Day O’Connor




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Better known as "Star Wars", this was an attempt by the Reagan administration to create a missile defense

system that would use some type of laser technology in space to ward off incoming

missiles. Opponents criticized the program as too costly and

a science fiction fantasyS.D.I.

Roaring 20s



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He ran as a third party candidate on the Reform Party ticket in 1992 and

received almost 20% of the popular vote, but not one

electoral vote. He ran again in 1996, but received less

than half of his 1992 popular vote countRoss Perot

Clinton Administration



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Former American ambassador to the U. N.,

President Clinton appointed her as the first women Secretary of State

in the nation's history

Madeline Albright




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The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, he helped shape President

Clinton's successful economic policies

• Alan Greenspan




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The controversial Speaker of the House who sought to

unite Republicans in support of conservative, ideological issues spelled out in his "Contract With

America."

Newt Gingrich




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An international organization whose

member nations agreed to keep tariff laws in order, to

promote world trade

GATT




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This legislation let workers take up to ten

weeks of unpaid leave for the birth of a new baby

or to assist a sick relative without the fear of losing

their jobFamily Leave Act




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This Clinton Attorney General called for the

appointment of several Independent Special

Prosecutors to investigate several of the scandals in the Clinton White House.

She was the first female to hold this post in the

nation's historyJanet Reno




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This radical leader of the Nation of Islam led the Million-Man March

in 1995

Louis Farrakhan




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Supported by the Clinton

administration, this plan was designed

to restore President Jean Bertrand

Aristide to power in HaitiOperation Restore Democracy




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This Clinton policy was an attempt to end

discrimination against homosexuals in the U.

S. military

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell




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It eliminated trade barriers between the U. S., Canada, and Mexico. It was barely approved by Congress in

1993 after a fierce political debate

NAFTA




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This Clinton scandal revolved around the

question of whether or not the Clintons

benefitted improperly from their involvement in this real estate business

ventureWhitewater




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This was the nickname of the first major gun

control legislation passed by Congress which

prohibited the purchase of 19 different types of

assault weaponsBrady Bill




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