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History 1302 Final
Question | Answer |
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Great Society | Lyndon Johnson's campaign, Welfare, free money |
Gulf of Tonkin | attacked by communist in international water |
SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Nixon talking with Russia to reduce nuclear exchange |
Operation Ranch Hand | protect personal and spray agent orange on vietnam |
My Lai | slaughtered some Vietnam by our troops |
John Dean | Nixon's lawyer exchanged for immunity against prosecution |
Silent Majority | focus of Nixon and Reagan campaign who spoke for non protestors |
Tet offensive | Vietcong try to attack American troops, fails and turns media against war |
OPEC | muslim use oil as political weapon, gas prices go up, and not as much gas given to us |
Iran-contra | during Reagan, fighting for election in Nicaragua against communist, Reagan is told not to fund this |
Kent State | college in Ohio, Nixon announced going to Cambodia to blow up stuff, kent state blew up ROTC building |
Gulf War | Iraq-Kuwait |
Gulf War 2 | got Saddam out of Iraq |
Bay of Pigs | Cuba CIA trained refugees to over throw communist, Castro not assassinated, Kennedy withdrew air support, terrible for the US |
War Powers Act | 73 passed pulling troops out of Vietnam, congress has to check where troops go |
Pentagon Papers | log kept during Vietnam, Lyndon lied, NY times published excerpts |
Watergate | hotel in DC democratic head, caught Nixon's workers going through information |
Whitewater | land investment, Clinton taking money, John and Susan McDougal go to jail, Vince Foster is killed |
SDS | student democratic society radical, presented as 'new' left, liars anti-capitalist |
Weather Underground | bomb makers |
Betty Friedan | feminine mystique anti-family convince women why do you do what you do |
Silent Spring | pesticides in food chain kill us all, author anti capitalist |
Black Hawk Down | Clinton, helicopter shot down by Somali |
9/11 | important date to Muslim, furthest extent of Muslim empire |
Read my Lips | GH bush no new taxes |
Vince Foster | got killed before he testified, Clinton's lawyer |
Warren commission | investigate Kennedy assassination, 'we cant handle the truth' |
Monica Lewinsky | Clinton had sex with her, he lied on trial about it |
Jihad | radical inner struggle good vs evil outward struggle of Islam |
Patriot Act | after 9/11, successfully implanted |
Mary Jo Kopechne | backseat of Kennedy car when he drove off bridge, she died and he left her there for several hours |
Al Qaeda | Global terror network, funds base of terrorism |