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APUSH 36
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | sought to undo the damage of Jim Crow policies, outlawing segregation in public spaces and employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin |
| Affirmative Action | Program designed to redress historic racial and gender imbalances in jobs and education |
| Great Society | A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. |
| Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965 | Abolished the "national-origins" quota and doubled the number of immigrants allowed to enter annually. |
| Freedom Summer | highly publicized campaign to register blacks to vote in the Deep South during the summer of 1964. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | removed measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting. |
| Watts Riots | race riots in Los Angeles |
| Black Panthers | An African-American organization established to promote Black Power and self-defense through acts of social agitation |
| Black Power | emphasized racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests, advance black values, and secure black autonomy. |
| Six-Day War | transformed Israel from a nation that perceived itself as fighting for survival into an occupier and regional powerhouse. |
| Tet Offensive | The name given to a campaign in January 1968 by the Viet Cong to attack twenty-seven South Vietnamese cities, including Saigon. |
| Stonewall Rebellion | uprising in support of equal rights for gay people sparked by an assault by off-duty police officers at a gay bar in New York |
| Vietnamization | President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces. |
| Nixon Doctrine | stated that the United States would stay true to all of their existing defense commitments but Asian and other countries would not be able to rely on large bodies of American troops for support in the future. |
| Silent Majority | Nixon Administration's term to describe generally content, law-abiding middle-class Americans who supported both the Vietnam War and America's institutions. |
| My Lai | Military assault in a small Vietnamese village on March 16, 1968, in which American soldiers under the command of 2nd Lieutenant William Calley murdered hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children. |
| Kent State | the location of one of the many college student protests against the Vietnam War |
| Pentagon Papers | Top-secret documents, published by The New York Times in 1971, that showed the blunders and deceptions that led the United States into the Vietnam War. |
| Detente | the period of Cold War thawing when the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated reduced armament treaties under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter. |
| Miranda warnings | A statement of an arrested person's constitutional rights, which police officers must read during an arrest. |
| Philadelphia Plan | Program established by Richard Nixon to require construction trade unions to work toward hiring more black apprentices. |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | A governmental organization signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1970 designed to regulate pollution, emissions, and other factors that negatively influence the natural environment. |
| Earth Day | International day of celebration and awareness of global environmental issues launched by conservationists |
| “Southern strategy” | Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. |
| War Powers Act | passed by Congress over President Nixon's veto to increase congressional control over the executive branch in foreign policy matters, specifically in regard to military actions short of formally declared war. |
| Malcolm X | Black Muslim minister in the Nation of Islam and an influential black leader who moved away from King's non-violent methods of civil disobedience. |
| Eugene McCarthy | Liberal anti-war senator from Minnesota who rallied a lrage youth movement behind his presidental campaign in 1968. |
| George Wallace | Southern populist and and segregationist, |
| Henry Kissinger | National Security Advisor and Secretary of State |
| Warren Burger | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986 |
| Rachel Carson | American conservationist |
| George McGovern | A Senator from South Dakota who ran for President in 1972 on the Democrat ticket. |
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