LBJ, nixon, ford, reagan

Great Society

Johnson’s program to promote civil rights, health care, fight poverty, and educational opportunities

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Congress abdicated their war powers by allowing the president to use further force in Vietnam

Civil Rights Act of 1964

banned racial discrimination in most facilities open to the public, banned discrimination based on race, ethnic origin or sex, created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

24th Amendment

abolished the poll tax

26th Amendment

lowered the voting age to 18

Immigration Reform Act

abolished the national origins quotas and allowed more immigrants to enter the US

National Organization for Women

worked for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment

Betty Friedan

wrote the Feminine Mystique that focused on the discontent life of middle class women

Rachel Carson

wrote Silent Spring to expose issues in the environment

Pentagon Papers

exposed the deception of the Vietnam War

Alcatraz & Wounded Knee

Two places that American Indians captured to protest the treatment by the American government

Détente

Nixon’s policy of relaxed tensions between the US and communists’ nations

Miranda v. Arizona

A case that required police to state the rights to the accused as they are being detained

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

This agency was created because of mounting concerns over the United States' environmental issues and the need for federal regulations to protect the environment.

Three Mile Island

This event raised public concern over the safety of nuclear energy

Vietnam, Great Society & Oil Embargo

The high inflation rate of the 1970s stemmed from…

Oil embargo

US support of Israel will result in…

Roe v. Wade

This case legalized abortion (has been overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization)

University of California v. Allan Bakke

Supreme Court decision that declared the use of affirmative action as the sole indicator for admission unconstitutional

War Powers Act

Required the president to report within 48 hours of use of troops in a foreign conflict limiting the President’s ability to wage war without Congressional approval

Sitins, protests, marches, non violent tactics, used the media, legal methods (court cases)

What tools did African Americans use to overturn Jim Crow laws?

Resistance by states to fully desegregate and implement civil rights

Why did the Civil Rights movement abandon the peaceful protest and become more militant?

Draft, minorities in war because can’t get college deferment, protested the invasion of Cambodia, Kent State, Tv showed the war was lost but the government kept on stating the war was winnable (credibility gap)

What were some reasons for protests to the Vietnam war?

Breaking and entering, bribery, Nixon 9perjury, obstruction of justice, cover up, destroyed the tapes)

Explain all the crimes committed in the Watergate scandal

Tapes. He cited executive privelge, claimed that tapes would damage the nation.

What evidence was revealed to show Nixon’s guilt? What was his reaction to the subpoena for the evidence?

Moral Majority

group founded by religious leaders to promote traditional Christian values, they opposed feminism , abortion and gay rights

Strategic Defense Initiative “Star Wars”

a missile defense system to block nuclear attack

Sandra Day O’Connor

first female Supreme Court Justice

Phyllis Schlafy

worked against the Equal Rights amendment

Iran Contra Affair

political scandal in which the use sold arms for hostage with Iran and used the money to support the contras in Nicaragua

Love Canal

signaled the issue of industries seeping chemicals in to the drinking water

SALT I

an agreement to limit arms build-up between the US and the Soviet Union

Iran Hostage Crisis

American embassy workers were taken by Muslim fundamentalists in order to get back the shah, will result in an oil embargo

Cesar Chavez

activist for farm workers who lead the grape boycott to improve working conditions for migrant farm works

Camp David Accords

Carter negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt resulting in his only success in foreign policy