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39 Cards in this Set
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Started as 1 day event almost 100% compliance decided to extend it until Rosa Parks case was over
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Tapeka Kansas. Lawsuit on schools for not allowing their black children to go to the white school
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Rosa Parks
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Refused to give up her seat asked by NAACP head not to pay fine and take it to court she knew what she was doing
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Thurgood Marshall
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had no interest in civil rights but made a groundbreaking decsion to find segregation in public schools illegal
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Little Rock High School
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Arkansas desegregation of schools case won 9 students attempt to enter but stopped by governor and national guard. President sends in 101 airborne to escort them to school everyday
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MLK Jr.
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Non violent protests starts SNCC and SCLC. sit ins and gets young people involved
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SNCC
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Students Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee arranged sit ins young people of both races
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SCLC
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Southern Christian Leadership Council
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Civil Rights Act 1964
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Equal Employment Oppuntunity Commision illegal to discriminate against African Americans Johnson
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Voting Rights Act 1965
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No getting around 15th amendment no poll taxes or literacy tests Johnson
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JFK
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1960 Civil rights (calls MLK in ATL prison) Social Programs, Economy (growth tax cuts to stimulate economy) Cold War (more defense spending aggressive foreign policy no commies)
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LBJ
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Takes over after JFK 1963 - Liberalism and idolized Roosevelt government aid Wheeler and dealer got things through congress easily Great Society
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Barry Goldwater
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runs against LBJ in 1964 loses
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Great Society
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Civil Rights Act 1964 Medical Aid Act 1965 Enviornment Education Social Security
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Election of 1968
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Nxion wins by landslide
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NOW
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National Organization Of Women wanted no discrimination in job hiring
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War On Poverty
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Creates job training
Subsidies Increase Aid to AFDC aid to family with dependent children Federal government would give money to best ideas give them a say in rebuilding communities |
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Counter Culture
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radicalism youthful protesting about poverty racism and inequalities
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Berkley
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rejection of values of 1950's free speech protest the war
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SDS
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Students for a Demoratic Society march on Washington 1965
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Ho Chi Minh
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Agrees to take over Vietnam after it Japan loses it in WWII controls the North when its split
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NLF
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National Liberation Front assassinated diem in revolt to take over South Nam
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Ngo Dihn Diem
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Controls South Vietnam good leader stablizes eonomy unpopular overthrown
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Tet Offensive
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North Vietnam attacks US troops systematically launched plan causes loss of support for the war in US
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Tonkin Gulf
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Gave president the ability to fight back without actually declaring war
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Nixon In Vietnam
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"vietnamization" let them fight their own war North invades South nothing is done Saigon falls in 1975 country is united US troops evacuated
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"domino theory"
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surrounding nations would fall after Vietnam like dominos
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New Left
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The student movement democratic views, fix social problems
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"war at home"
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counter culture SDS rejection of old values. protest war and for civil rights and equalities in general
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ERA
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Equal Rights Amendment for women
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Roe vs. Wade
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Birth Control Pill states can't prohibit abortion
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New Conservatism
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Restoring order authority and values Racial Politics(pro segregation) Anti-Big Government (great society big military little domestic) Womens Movement (ERA and Roe =bad) Anti-communism (agressive foreign affairs)
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New Christian Right
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Popular in the south baptist areas became increasingly popular presidential candidate won 4 states
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William Buckley
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tional Review magazine mind behind modern conservatism 1955
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Phyllis Schlafly
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Stop ERA wanted women to stay in the home very religious
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Southern Strategy
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political realignment white south vote republican
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Jerry Falwell
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Moral Majority 1979 pro god/family members/anti homo anti abortion
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1970's malaise
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brought on by high inflation, skyrocketing interest rates, high unemployment, and high taxes
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Shah Reza Pahlavi overthrown and allowed to stay in America. Radicals take over US embassy and hold people hostage
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