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| unsuccessful attempt by Cuban refugees backed by the U.S. (Kennedy) to overthrow Castro in Cuba. |
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| Daniel Elsberg released top secret documents revealing U.S. dealings in Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War that reinvigorated the waning anti-war movement. |
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| The ______ _____ was part of the complexity of the Vietnam war when Gen. Westmoreland’s assessment of the war turned out to be wrong. The media believed he was deliberately misleading them. |
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| a phrase used by Eisenhower to refer to the relationship between the military and business in the U.S. |
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| The Cold War belief that if one nation comes under communist control its neighboring nations would also fall to communism. |
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| Part of the Nixon Doctrine and begun the Johnson Administration. It was the policy of turning the war in Vietnam to the ARVN (Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam). |
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| the breaking by Nixon staff members into the DNC Head quarters housed in the hotel. It resulted in cover-ups, obstruction and the eventual resignation of Nixon. |
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| the mainstream of middle American society that supported the U.S. domestic policy and foreign policy in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and opposed the loud student/anti war types and protestors in general with slogans such as “America Love it or Leave it” |
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| 1960’s-1970’s anti-establishment youth movement that opposed the Vietnam War, believed in the use of mind expanding drugs and extreme liberalism. |
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| 4 students killed during SDS led anti-establishment/anti war protests in the 1970s |
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| Committee to Re-Elect the President. They were the overzealous supporters of Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign. |
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| communist guerilla forces that were formed after the French involvement in Vietnam ended and the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia began. |
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| the belief that if one nation comes under communist control, its neighboring nations will also fall under communist control. |
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| the domestic and foreign policy of President J.F.K. |
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| 1968 offensive action by N.V.A and the Nat’l liberation front that was a military failure but a propaganda victory. |
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| Nixon’s Sec. Of State who negotiated the end to Vietnam war at the Paris Peace Talks. |
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| This was Lyndon Johnson’s program of bringing economic, social and political progress to the U.S. from 1965-1969 – So-called the “war on poverty”. |
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| Environmental Protection Agency—Established in the Nixon administration in 1970 to monitor and reduce pollution. |
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| Port Huron Statement 1962 |
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| SDS leader Tom Hayden manifesto that rejected what they claimed was a system of power rooted in possession, privilege, racism, or circumstance. |
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| a book written by Rachel Carson that helped launch the Environmentalist movement in the 1960’s. |
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| U.S. spy plane shot down over the USSR which ended a move toward “rapprochement” at the end of the Eisenhower administration. |
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| President Kennedy’s advisors. |
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| Political power politics practiced by Kennedy and Kruschev in the early 1960’s. Berlin Crisis of 1961 (Wall) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Using the threat of war. |
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| In the Vietnam War, the _ _ was the supply route used by the communist forces of Vietnam to ferry war supplies through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam. |
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| Students for a Democratic Society was a radical anti-war organization during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s responsible for leading Anti-War protests and campus violence. |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| The _ _ _ _ gave LBJ the authority to use combat troops in Vietnam. |
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| Chinese communist isolationism penetrated by Richard Nixon in the 1970s. |
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| Nixon administration’s visits to Communist China. |
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| the __ ___ __ involved a secret arms-for-hostages-deal between the US. (Reagan Administration) and Iran to fund money for Contra Rebels (anti-communists) in Central America. |
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| Refugees from Southeast Asia during the 1970’s. |
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| This occurred when an Islamic fundamentalist revolution broke out in the late 1970’s in Iran, and the U.S. embassy was captured in Tehran. It helped destroy the chances for Carter’s reelection. |
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| A movement begun in the early 1980’s among religious conservatives that supported primarily conservative Republicans opposed to abortion, communism and liberalism. |
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| Supply side economics used by the Reagan administration. It concluded that tax cuts and de-regulation on top producers would spur economic growth. The opponents derided it as “trickle down” and voodoo economics. |
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| Conservative movement that was not content with Jimmy Carter’s direction liberalism, and the moral decline in America. |
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| _______ was a anemic economy with double digit inflation, and high interest rates in the Ford and Carter years. |
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| Feminist sponsored legislation to further women’s rights in the late 1970s that failed to pass with the necessary votes in the Senate in the early 1980s. |
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| Music Television Station that became a cultural happening in the 1980s, which has since been utilized by political groups to reach the youth vote. |
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| Ronald Reagan’s description of Soviet Union because of his fierce anti-communist views and the USSR’s history of violation of human rights and aggression. |
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| The Strategic Defense Initiative was a missile defense program Reagan proposed to protect the USA from ememy nuclear missiles. Derided as STAR WARS by his political opponents who believed it rekindled an all out arms race. |
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| the “Vietnam” of the Soviet Union. Reagan supported anti-communist “freedom fighters” with American weapons until the USSR withdrew in defeat. |
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| 1970s communist/terrorists organization formed out of primarily middle class youth disillusioned with American captitalism noted for kidnapping/recruitment of Patty Hearst. Symbionese Liberation Army |
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| Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty – 1972 Nixon/Breschnev agreement to bilateral nuclear reduction. As part of the easing of tensions (détente) in the 1970s. |
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| A peace deal broken by James Earl Carter that involved Israel and Egypt in 1978. |
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| Consumer rights activist who in the 1960’s and 70’s attacked cooperate America’s unsafe products. He wrote a book about the auto industry Unsafe at Any Speed. |
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| nicknames of the first Gulf War fought in 1991 after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. |
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| Worst US terror attack that resulted in the destruction of the WTC in NYC and began the War on Terror. |
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| 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War. |
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| An affair which ultimately resulted in the impeachment of Bill Clinton. |
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| Scandal implicating Bill Clinton which resulted in an extensive republican investigation in congress. Regarding Clintons’ financial records in Arkansas. |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada US and Mexico. |
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| Newt Gingrich conservative Republican realigning election 1994. |
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| Federal siege of Branch Davidian (cult) that resulted in the deaths of many of the members of church during the Clinton era. Used by Timothy McVeigh bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma in 1995. |
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