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| 708176318 | Vietnamization | 540,000 American troops would be pulled out of the Southeast Asian nation and the war would be turned back over to the Vietamese | 0 | |
| 708176319 | Nixon Doctrine | The South Vietnamese would slowly fight their own war, and the U.S. would only supply arms and money but not American troops | 1 | |
| 708176320 | Silent Majority | Americans who supported the war, but without noise | 2 | |
| 708176321 | My Lai Massacre | American troops brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of __ ___, illustrated the frustration and led to more opposition to the war. | 3 | |
| 708176322 | Cambodia | In 1970, Nixon ordered an attack on ________, Vietnam's neighbor. | 4 | |
| 708176323 | Kent State University, Jackson State College | Riots occurred at these two colleges because of Nixon's choice to invade Cambodia | 5 | |
| 708176324 | 26th Amendment | lowering the voting age to eighteen | 6 | |
| 708176325 | Pentagon Papers | exposed the deceit used by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations regarding Vietnam and people spoke of a "credibility gap" between what the government said and the reality | 7 | |
| 708176326 | Daniel Ellsberg | a former Pentagon official, leaked the "Pentagon Papers" | 8 | |
| 708176327 | Dr. Henry A. Kissinger | sent by Nixon to encourage better relations, a mission in which he succeeded, détente | 9 | |
| 708176328 | The ABM Treaty (anti-ballistic missile treaty) | treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons. | 10 | |
| 708176329 | SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) | refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control | 11 | |
| 708176330 | Earl Warren | appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he headed many controversial but important decisions | 12 | |
| 708176331 | Griswold v. Connecticut | struck down a state law that banned the use of contraceptives, even by married couples, but creating a "right to privacy." | 13 | |
| 708176332 | Gideon v. Wainwright | said that all criminals were entitled to legal counsel, even if they were too poor to afford it | 14 | |
| 708176333 | Escobedo and Miranda | were two cases in which the Supreme Court ruled that the accused could remain silent | 15 | |
| 708176334 | Engel v. Vitale and and School District of Abington Township v. Schempp | were two cases that led to the Court ruling against required prayers and having the Bible in public schools, basing the judgment on the First Amendment, which was argued separated church and state | 16 | |
| 708176335 | Reynolds v. Sims | ruled that the state legislatures, both upper and lower houses, would have to be reapportioned according to the human population. This was to ensure each person's vote was weighed evenly. | 17 | |
| 708176336 | Warren E. Burger | replace the retiring Earl Warren in 1969, and this succeeded—by the end of 1971, the Supreme Court had four new members that Nixon had appointed | 18 | |
| 708176337 | Supplemental Security Income (SSI) | gave benefits to the indigent, aged, blind, and disabled | 19 | |
| 708176338 | Philadelphia Plan | required construction-trade unions working on the federal payroll to establish "goals and timetables" for Black employees | 20 | |
| 708176339 | Rachel Carson | boosted the environmental movement with her book Silent Spring, which exposed the disastrous effects of pesticides (namely, DDT) | 21 | |
| 708176340 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 | both aimed to protect and preserve the environment and animals. | 22 | |
| 708176341 | George McGovern | promised to end the war within 90 days after the election and also appealed to teens and women | 23 | |
| 708176342 | The War Powers Act of November 1973 | required the president to report all commitments of U.S. troops to Congress within 48 hours and and (2) setting a 60 day limit on those activities. | 24 | |
| 708176343 | New Isolationism | discouraged the use of U.S. troops in other countries, but Nixon fended off all efforts at this | 25 | |
| 708176344 | OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) | lifted the embargo in 1974, and then quadrupled the price of oil by decade's end. | 26 | |
| 708176345 | Gerald Ford | first unelected president ever | 27 | |
| 708176346 | Helsinki accords | recognized Soviet boundaries, guaranteed human rights, and eased the U.S.—Soviet situation | 28 | |
| 708176347 | Title IX | prohibited sex discrimination in any federally funded education program | 29 | |
| 708176348 | Roe v. Wade | case legalized abortion, arguing that ending a pregnancy was protected under a right to privacy | 30 | |
| 708176349 | ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) | sought to guarantee gender equality through words | 31 | |
| 708176350 | Milliken v. Bradley case | Supreme Court ruled that desegregation plans could not require students to move across school-district lines | 32 | |
| 708176351 | Bakke case of 1978 | Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that Allan Bakke (a white applicant claiming reverse discrimination) should be admitted to U.C.—Davis med school. The decision was ambiguous saying (1) admission preference based on any race was not allowed, but conversely that (2) race could be factored into the admission policy | 33 | |
| 708176352 | Thurgood Marshall | The Supreme Court's only black justice | 34 | |
| 708176353 | Jimmy Carter | barely squeezed by Gerald Ford (297 to 240) for president, promising to never lie to the American public. He also had Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress | 35 | |
| 708176354 | Rapid Deployment Force | that could respond to crises anywhere in the world in a quick manner | 36 |
