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U.S History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Brown vs. Board of education | overturn Plessy vs. Ferguson, segregation is illegal |
| Dr. Kenneth + Mamie Clark | segregation has psychological impact on children, which doll is better? white or black?, children though white was better |
| Emmet Till | 14 year old black teenager who died from an incident in a grocery store, accused of inappropriate behavior towards white women |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | boycott of city bus system, won't ride buses until integrated |
| Little Rock Central High | started by integrating 9 black kids selected by grades |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | nonviolent strategies, no self defense, no reaction, arrested for protest |
| Sit in | sit in segregated space until integrated |
| Freedom Riders | protestors riding buses until integrated, beaten at bus stops, federal government gets involved, FBI does not help protestors with police |
| Freedom Summer | college students in southern states to help with voter registration, local police try to do everything to prevent black people from voting |
| Bull Connor | Head of police in Burmingham Alabama, makes national news for reaction to protestors, brought out police dogs, pressure washed |
| COINTEL PRO | FBI program, monitors Civil Rights activists, views them as a danger to society and safety, undermines civil rights movement, hires people to try to start incidents |
| Civil Rights Act | prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or sex, form of legislation that can be used in defense |
| Voting Rights Act | targeted any discriminatory practice to keep people from voting (literacy tests and polls taxes |
| Betty Friedan | Female journalist who was also a wife and mother, writes Feminine Mystique, thinks women cannot be filled by just motherhood |
| Federal appeal courts | Title 7, employment discrimination |
| Miss America Pageant | represents unrealistic beauty expectations, protesting with throwing feminine things in the trash can |
| Gloria Steinem | emerges as leader, confounds magazine, Ms. Magazine, talks about different women's issues, breaks stereotypes of women's movement |
| Educational opportunities | can study women's history, opens up different fields for women |
| Billie Jean King | tennis player, argues for equality for women in sprots and professionally |
| Male chavist pig | journalists who objectify women |
| Roe vs. Wade | makes abortion legal, up to the states to decide |
| Equal Rights Amendment | Alice Paul wrote the bill against the laws restricting women, blanket statement of not discriminating against sex |
| Phyllis Schlafly | Against ERA, conservative, patriarchy=good, women are not victim, viewed as hypocrite |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of Vietmese nationalist movement, wanted Vietnam to be their own country not a colony |
| Vietcong | military force, supportive of communist government and Minh, US sticks by Diem |
| Gulf of Tolkien | U.S. and Vietcong, US ship on gulf watching Vietcong, claims for security, torpedo sent to ship. ship is not destroyed, but claims act of war |
| Gulf of Tolkien Resolution | president can takes all necessary measures to repel acts against the US forces to prevent further aggression |
| Tet offense | lunar new year, Vietcong attacking the American bases in Vietnam, Americans feel misled and decreases moral |
| My Lai Massacre | Americans do not find our until 1 year later, soldiers started killing and sexually assaulted unarmed women and children |
| Students for Democratic Society | against the war, non violent resistance, arguing for human rights and social justice |
| Agent Orange | chemcial poured on countryside of Vietnam, killing jungle grass, cancer causing agents, people die because of pollution and water and air, takes food sources away |
| Napalm | sticky substance dropped by bombs, setting things on fire, kills civilians, leaves permanent damage |
| Kent State | stidents peacefully protesting, campus calls national guard and shoots into crowd killing 4 students |
| Rust Belt | large industries move over seas , jobs lost by Americans, little pay for labor and bigger profits , factories are abandoned, major job loss |
| counter culture | younger generation is lazy, hippies, anti-wat, rejects consumerism |
| New left | civil rights, women's liberation |
| new right | those opposed to the new left |
| Southern strategy | moved by new right to get south to switch political parties |
| Silent Majority | convinces south that voices have been ignored, civil rights and women's liberation is the loud minority, thinks this needs to change |
| Watergate | Nixon, leaked documents of department of defense to New York Times, talks about Vietnam War, team of operatives are hired, to figure out who leaked, uses campaign funds |
| Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein | reporters, investigate Watergate, believes it can be traced back to the president, finds out Nixon used money illegally |
| Marl Felt | gave information to bernstein and woodward, turns to national scandal |
| Gerald Ford | becomes vice president was not elected by American people, grants full pardon to Nixon |
| Iran Hostage Crisis | Jimmy Carter is president, former leader of Iran has cancer, asks to be admitted to us temporarily, admits him, holds people hostage at American Embassy until leader is released, not released until Reagan is presdent |
| Trickle-down economics | government intervention in economy, gives tax cuts to large companies, trickles down to working class and does not work |
| Welfare queen | stereotypes of people living on welfare |
| War on drugs | do not drugs campaign, educational program for kids, response to counterculture, morality problem in the country, longer sentencing for drug abuse |
| Strategic Defense Intiative | spent 20 billion dollars on missile system that attacks other countries, never used |
| Afghanistan | Soviet Union invades to support communism US intervenes by supplying weapons |
| Iran-Contra Affair | Nicaragua, different forces (against and for communism), because of Truman doctrine US helps contras by sending weapons |
| Berlin Wall | way of communicating, separates east and west berlin. 1989 wall is torn down, 2 years later Soviet Union dissolves |
| genocide | destruction of nations, races and religious groups with intent to completely destroy |
| Rwanda | one ethnic groups destroys the other, Tutsi are destroyed by Hutus, 100 days 800,000 people are killed with machetes |
| Rodney king | pulled over by police and brutally beaten, permanent brain damages, police officers are released with no charges, sparked protests |
| BLM Movement | sparked by 17 year old Trey Von Martin, killed by George Zimmerman for looking suspicious and found not guilty |
| Iraq War | Bush wants to invade Iraq because of mass weapon claim 2002-2011 |
| War in Afghanistan | does not withdraw until 2021, confronts taliban forces, 9/11, 6.4 trillion dollars spent |
| Israel and Palestine | state of Israel is established for Jewish people in Europe, starts war with Palestine |
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