AP US History Unit 8: Social Structures

SCOTUS

________ declared that states shall not prohibit women from having an abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, affirming people the right to privacy.

Taft Hartley Act

The ________ was designed to monitor and restrict the activities of organized labor, making it more difficult to strike.

LBJ

________ took up the cause of civil rights and pressured reluctant Democratic legislators to support it.

NATO

________ was formed to resist any aggressive actions by the Soviet Union and created a standing army for this purpose.

Medgar Evans

When civil rights leader ________ was murdered, Kennedy called civil rights a "moral issue "and pledged to support civil rights legislation.

Connecticut

In Griswold v. ________ (1965), the Court ruled that laws forbidding the use of birth- control devices were unconstitutional.

Cuba

From 1933- 59, ________ had been run as a military dictatorship with close ties to the US, but in 1959, Castro overthrew the government.

Selective Service System

The ________ began increasing the number of young men drafted to serve in the armed forces, almost doubling monthly totals.

USSR

In 1971, Nixon initiated an agreement with the ________ where they accepted the independence of West Berlin and the US recognized East Germany.

An armistice was reached and the Korean ended as it began

divided at the 38th Parallel