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| What are the major chronological events involving the Cuban Missle Crisis? |
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Definition
1. Bay of Pigs - Castro and Kennedy Ammesty
2. Khrushchev allowed for Cuba to keep missles
3. missiles were put where the US could not detect - however they were
4. national security council blockades Cuba - standoff the US navy
5. the Soviet Union withdrew if the US wouldn't invade and they would not supply any more missles
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| Who were the major leaders in the Cuban missle crisis? |
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Definition
Khrushchev - Soviet Union
Kennedy - US
Castro - Cuba |
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| What was Kennedy's policy about American involvement in Vietnam? |
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Definition
he didn't want military personell to go just continually sent advisors
this number grew from 2,000 to 16,000 without actually sending anyone to fight |
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| Who was arrested for the assassination of JFK? |
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Definition
| Lee Harvey Oswald - former US marine, renounced citizenship, lived in the Soviet Union, had mafia ties, was later killed by Jack Ruby |
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| Who could have been behind the assassination of JFK? |
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Definition
CIA - pulled support from the Bay of Pigs and didn't fully support Vietnam
Mafia - because Kennedy fortunes had ties to the mafia, vowed to go after organized crime
Castro - sent cuban exiles during the Bay of Pigs, and had tried to assassinate ten times
KKK - push back against civil rights
Russians - attempt to blow up America |
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| What were the major points of emphasis of Johnson's policy called the Great Society? |
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Definition
| end poverty and have racial justice, tax reduction and liberalism, government expansion, "abundance and liberty for all" |
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Term
| What was the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 responsible for? |
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Definition
construction of 240,000 housing units and 2.9 billion for urban renewal
the government pays also for inner city housing, "projects" |
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Term
| What restrictions or conditions were placed on immigration in 1965? |
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Definition
all nationalities and races equal
entry for immediate family members of those in the US was granted
a quota for immigration was set up by hemisphere |
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| What were some of the downfalls of the Great Society Program? |
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Definition
strong conservative backlash
medicare - no need for hospitals to keep costs low because the government was paying for it
government beuracracy - no incentive |
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Term
| What was the significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? |
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Definition
outlawed racial discrimination and allowed everyone to vote
law says that it is illegal to have racial discrimination in a public place, enabled the attorney general to bring suits for school desegregation, federally assisted programs and private employers to stop discrimination |
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| What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965? |
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Definition
| all citizens had the rights to vote and this was required to be enforced |
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| Who was Stokely Charmichael? |
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Definition
| student, non violent committee, believed that violence was now needed, Black Power movement leader, and removed all whites from his committee |
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Term
| What were positives that came out of the Black Power movement? |
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Definition
| appreciation for the african american heritage and accomplishments, publicized racism |
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Term
| What was Operation Rolling Thunder? |
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Definition
| the idea to bomb into submission, the first sustained bombing in North Vietnam |
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Term
| Who was William Westmoreland? |
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Definition
| American army commander who wanted more troops in Vietnam |
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Term
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Definition
| Eisenhower's VP, from California, became a nationally known Republican by 1950, |
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Term
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Definition
| Catholic, wealthy family, gained support from his television debate with Nixon, was a Democrat, charismatic, created the Peace Corps, a new housing act, and a space program to reach the moon by the end of the decade |
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| What does the N is SNCC stand for? |
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Definition
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| Who is Robert F. Kennedy? |
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Definition
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| What did JFK's cabinet emphasize? |
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Definition
| youth and the "Eastern Establishment" |
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Term
| Where did one of the biggest legislative accomplishments of JFK's administration come from? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was JFK unable to persuade Congress to support? |
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Definition
| the creation of a new Department of Urban Affairs |
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Term
| Who was the author of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the March on Washington? |
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Definition
| the largest civil rights demonstration in American History, setting of Martin Luther King Jr. I have a Dream speech, |
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Term
| During the Cuban Missle Crisis, what did President Kennedy order? |
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Definition
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Term
| In order to soothe Soviet American relations after the Missle Crisis, what was done? |
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Definition
| a treaty that banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere, installation of a hot line between Moscow and DC, removal of obsolete missiles from Turkey, Italy, and Britain |
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Definition
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Term
| what did the Other America describe? |
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Definition
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| In the early 1960s what did conservative Republicans feel that their party for the previous two decades had been? |
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Definition
| an echo of the Democratic Party |
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Term
| What happened during the election of 1964? |
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Definition
Johnson and Humphrey - Democratic, won by a landslide, partial involvement in the war
Goldwater - Republican, be aggressive or back out of the fight in Vietnam |
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Term
| What did the Health Insurance Bill in 1965 do? |
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Definition
| created Medicaid to help cover medical payments for the indigent |
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Term
| What did the Watts riot do? |
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Definition
| signaled a new phase in the civil rights movement |
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Term
| Who did not want to seek peace in Vietnam? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is the Port Huron Statement? |
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Definition
| written by Tom Hayden, was the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, represented the ideology of the New Left |
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Term
| Who felt a new sense of solidarity from the Stonewall riots? |
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Definition
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Term
| Who was the author of The Feminine Mystique? |
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Definition
| Betty Friedan, wanted to protest against the blissful domesticity of American women after WWII |
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Term
| What were victories for the women's movement in the 1970s? |
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Definition
| affirmative action, Roe vs. Wade, ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, increased economic and political influence |
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Term
| Who were The United Farm Worker concerned about? |
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Definition
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Term
| What does the I stand for in AIM? |
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Definition
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Term
| Who was the silent majority? |
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Definition
| conservative working and middle-class citizens |
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Term
| What are the Pentagon Papers? |
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Definition
| the documents that revealed that Congress and the American people had not been told the whole story about the Gulf of Tonkin |
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Term
| Where did the economic uneasiness during the Nixon administration come from? |
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Definition
| a rapid contraction of money supply, increased government spending through the 1960s without tax increases, the oil shortage |
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Term
| After Watergate, what was designed to curb presidential powers? |
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Definition
| The War Powers Act, an act that set new limits on campaign contributions and expenditures, an act strengthening the Freedom of Information Act |
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Term
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Definition
| peanut farmer, from Georgia, former naval officer, the black sheep, won the black vote for the South, created a new cabinet level Department of Education and Energy |
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Term
| What did Jimmy Carter think foreign policy should be based on? |
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Definition
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Term
| When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan what did Carter do? |
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Definition
| shelved SALT II agreements, suspend shipments of grain to the Soviet Union, and urged an international boycott of the Moscow olympics |
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Term
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Definition
| supported the welfare state, oversaw defense buildup, supported ending abortion on demand, Reaganomics, will become president, Equal Rights Amendment, Teflon Presidency, Republican candidate for president in 1984 |
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Term
| What did the 1980 census show? |
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Definition
| Americans were moving to the traditionally conservative South and West |
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Term
| What did the Moral Majority stand for? |
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Definition
| outlawing abortions, teaching creationism in schools, allowing prayer in public schools |
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Term
| Who did not vote in the 1980 election? |
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Definition
| working class urban Democrats |
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Term
| Who said, "Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem?" |
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Definition
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Term
| What did the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 reduce? |
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Definition
| personal income and capital gains taxes |
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Term
| Who did Reagan support in Nicaragua? |
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Definition
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Term
| In 1983, what happened in Beirut? |
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Definition
| over 200 American marines were killed when a truck loaded with dynamite blew up in the barracks of the embassy |
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Term
| What did "Reaganomics" resemble? |
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Definition
| the economic philosophy of Andrew Mellon, secretary of treasury during the 1920s |
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Term
| Who did the Teflon Presidency refer to? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did the INF treaty do? |
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Definition
| eliminated intermediate-range nuclear missiles |
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Term
| Who said, "Read my lips: no new taxes" ? |
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Definition
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Term
| How did Bush deal with the fiscal crisis in early 1990? |
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Definition
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Term
| How did the United States respond to the coup against Gorbachev by Soviet hard-liners? |
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Definition
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Term
| What did the Gulf War result from? |
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Definition
| Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait |
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Term
| What did the United States do in the Gulf War? |
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Definition
| helped free Kuwait from Iraqi control, was one of twenty-eight nations allied for Operation Desert Storm, called for a cease-fire after six weeks of fighting |
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Term
| When did the German people destroy the Berlin Wall? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| Democratic candidate in the 1988 election, lost, won 10 states and DC, hosted a weekly General Electric TV show |
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Term
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Definition
| finished third in the 1980 election |
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Term
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Definition
| Republican VP candidate in 1980, Republican presidential candidate 1988, won presidency, one term in office, approval rating topped 90% at the end of the Gulf War, angered Republicans by promoting a tax increase bill, Republican presidential candidate 1992 |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| said "my opponent will raise taxes and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.", won Minnesota and DC, ran against Reagan, Democratic presidential candidate 1984 |
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Term
| Who is Sandra Day O'Connor? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| spearheaded campaign to defeat the ERA |
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Term
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Definition
| secretary of interior who resigned |
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Term
| What was the population of the United States in 2000? |
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Definition
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Term
| During the 1980s who did not have a population increase? |
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Definition
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Term
| In 1990 what was the leading cause of death for black males ages 15 to 24? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the fastest growing segment of America's population in the 1980s? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the purpose of California's Proposition 187? |
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Definition
| to deny illegal immigrants access to public schools, non-emergency health care, and other social services |
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Term
| Who was the Christian Coalition led by? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| replacement of Thurgood Marshall, the first black supreme court justice |
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Term
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Definition
| governor of Arkansas,chose Al Gore as his VP, was accused of manipulating the ROTC program during Vietnam to avoid being drafted, involved in the whitewater scandal which involved a failed investment of an Arkansas resort project, impeachment trial included: embezzlement, lying under oath, and raising illegal campaign funds, Democratic presidential candidate 1992 |
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Term
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Definition
| a rallying point for the new surge of women's rights |
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Term
| How did Clinton's deficit-reduction program of 1993 pass? |
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Definition
| passed congress by the narrowest of margins |
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Term
| Clinton's health care reform plan attacked who? |
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Definition
| drug companies and insurance interests |
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Term
| In what city were 168 people killed outside of a federal building on April 19, 1995? |
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Definition
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Term
| Who were the Branch Davidians? |
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Definition
| branch of the Adventists, headquartered in Waco Texas, surrendered to the FBI after a 50 day seige |
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Term
| How did Clinton react to the Kosovo conflict? |
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Definition
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Term
| What happened during the mid-term elections of 1994? |
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Definition
| Republicans won both houses of Congress |
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Term
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Definition
| wife of Bill Clinton, essentially created the health care reform plan |
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Term
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Definition
| wrote the Contract with America |
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Term
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Definition
| Federal Reserve Board chairman |
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Term
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Definition
| slain Israeli prime minister |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| What court cases was Kennedy president for? |
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Definition
Baker vs. Carr
Engle vs. Vitale
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Miranda vs. Arizona |
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Term
| What were Kennedy's foreign goals? |
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Definition
increased military budget by 50%
reduced tariffs
Project Apollo
Peace Corps
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Test Ban Treaty
Cuban Missile Crisis
support of South Vietnam |
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Term
| What were Kennedy's domestic goals? |
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Definition
increased minimum wage to $1.15
pressured steel industry prices
Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
use of troops to promote integration of colleges |
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Term
| What happened during the Johnson era on the foreign front? |
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Definition
Khrushchev died
France withdrew from NATO
Middle Eastern War of 1967
Dominican Republic intervention
no settlement on the Panama Canal
Vietnam War
Tet Offensive |
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Term
| What happened domestically during the Johnson presidency? |
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Definition
continued Revenue Act, Civil Rights Acts, and War on Poverty
educational aid
Medicare and Medicaid
Appalachian Regional Development Act
Civil Rights Acts of 1965 and 1968
HUD
first African American in cabinet
Immigration Act |
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Term
| What did happened with foreign policy during the Nixon era? |
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Definition
sought detente with USSR
SALT I
Ping Pong Diplomacy
slowly pull from Vietnam
Watergate |
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Term
| What did Nixon do with domestic policies? |
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Definition
NOW
AIM
Roe vs. Wade
New Federalism
no drug trafficking
increase social security and student loans
26th amendment
inflation and unemployment
failed wage and price control
beginning gay rights |
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Term
| What happened domestically when Ford was in office? |
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Definition
president when Nixon resigned
pardoned Nixon
stagflation
oil price increase
1976 slight decrease unemployment and inflation |
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Term
| What happened with foreign policy when Carter was in office? |
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Definition
human rights emphasis
Panama Canal Treaty
Camp David Peace accords
USSR invasion of Afghanistan
Iranian hostage crisis
boycott of the Moscow olympics
Cuban Refugees |
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Term
| What was domestic policy during the Carter era? |
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Definition
bicentennial campaign
promise of streamline government
New Foundation
pardoned 10,000 draft evaders
Department of Energy
Department of Education
massive inflation and unemployment |
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Term
| What was Reagan foreign policy? |
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Definition
evil empire
tear down Berlin Wall
overthrow Marxist governments in South America
SDI
Middle East disaster
Iran-Contra Affair
rise conservatism
think tanks
corporate mergers
IRAs |
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Term
| What happened with Ford foreign policy? |
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Definition
fall of South Vietnam
boat people
Mayaguez
SALT II |
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Term
What did Clinton do during his presidency?
(presidential matching) |
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Definition
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