APUSH 29-30 REVIEW

Program to provide healthcare for the poor and elderly

[Medicare]

Johnson’s overarching plan to lift the poor out of poverty

[War on Poverty or Great Society]

Kenney’s term for building conventional and special forces capacity, in addition to nuclear weapons

[flexible response]

Most controversial part of the OEO, it ask and allowed poor people to plan and run the anti-poverty programs

[community action]

hoping to avoid another Cuba, in 1965 LBJ invaded this nation, restoring a dictator friendly to the US (this also secured the DR as a source of baseball talent)

[Dominican Republic]

Organization of young people to organize sit-ins and other direct action, it grew more radical over the decade

[SNCC]

This law ended discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation

[Civil Rights Act of  1964]

Protest in this Alabama City led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act

[Selma]

An alternative to Martin Luther King, the black power movement drew inspiration from his words

[Malcolm X]

Created in 1964 as an alternative to the racist white political power structure in Mississippi

[MS Freedom Democratic Party]

One of the laws passed under Nixon in response to the environmental or ecology movements]

[EPA, Clean Air, Clean Water, Endangered Specie

It promoted cynicism about politics and disgraced the Nixon Legacy

[Watergate]

Arab group that drastically increased oil prices in the 1970s

[OPEC]

An example of détente with the USSR was this arms control agreement

[SALT I]

Nixon’s key advisor in Foreign policy was this Harvard Professor

[Kissinger]

US commander in the Pacific War, Japanese Occupation, and Korea, until fired for insubordination

[Douglas MacArthur]

His mass-produced houses created the suburbs

[Levitt]

French defeat here forced them out of Vietnam

[Dien Bien Phu]

Black leader of the 1930s and 1940s Civil Rights movement

[Philip Randolph]

Nasser’s seizure of this set off a diplomatic crisis in 1956, particularly when Britain and France tried to take it back by force

[Suez Canal]

Term for the system of racial discrimination in the US 1880s-1960s

[Jim Crow]

Court case where the US Supreme Court asserted its power to overrule acts of congress

[Marbury v. Madison]

Term for Monroe’s presidency, when there appeared to be no opposition to the ruling party

[era of good feelings]

Key ally of Andrew Jackson—secretary of Treasury during the bank war, later made chief justice of the US

[Roger B. Taney]

British evangelical Christian who led the anti-slavery movement

[William Wilberforce]

Although a military victory for the US, it was a political defeat, and marks the turning point of the Vietnam war

[Tet offensive]

One of two anti-war democrats who challenged LBJ for the democratic nomination for president

[Eugene McCarthy or Robert Kennedy]

Chosen as the democratic nominee out of the chaos of the Chicago convention; he had little popular support

[H.H. Humphrey]

One reason, according to your sidebar, for so many youth uprisings around the world in 1968

[baby boom, instant communication]

This ‘new left’ group organized many of the protests in Chicago during the democratic convention

[SDS]

Constitutional changes demanded by Feminist movement of the 1970s

[ERA]

Violence in the wake of this anti-war protest badly divided the nation over the Vietnam War

[Kent State]

This event marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement

[Stonewall riot]

Nixon hoped his nomination as Chief Justice would shift the court in a more conservative direction, it did not

[Warren Berger]

Violent protest of AIM here in 1973 revealed the continuing anger in the Native American movement, even after changes in government policy of the late 1960s

[Wounded Knee, SD]

This gave president Johnson the authority to use military force in South East Asia

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]

Nixon’s largely failed plan to reduce the US role in the Vietnam war

[Vietnamization]

South Vietnamese guerilla group, seeking to overthrow the US backed dictatorship of South Vietnam

[Viet Cong or National Liberation Front]

South Vietnamese dictator, friend of the US, hated as a collaborator in South Vietnam

[Ngo Dinh Diem]

Collection of secret documents, published in 1971, demonstrating a pattern of US government lies about the War in Vietnam

[Pentagon Papers]

Largely unsuccessful US program of loans to Weimar Republic to pay Germany’s WWI reparations

[Dawes Plan]

Scandal that forever tarnished the Harding Administration, featuring NM politician Albert Fall

[Teapot Dome]

Pro-business group , formed by the DuPont family to work against the New Deal

[American Liberty League]

Hoover program to lend $ to bank and other large businesses—too small and too late to help the depression

[Reconstruction Finance Corporation]

She led the birth control movement of the Progressive Era

[Margaret Sanger]

Adams administration law to suppress dissent

[Alien and Sedition Acts]

They led and organized the settlement of the Maryland colony

[Calvert Family]

British political leader, behind the unpopular stamp act and Townsend acts

[George Grenville]

Attempted slave revolution in colonial South Carolina

[Stono uprising]

Idea that colonial trade should be strictly controlled for the benefit of the Imperialist nation—the Navigation acts are part of this

[mercantilism]