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| 9787314882 | free-market economy | A system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between vendors and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. |  | 0 |
| 9787314883 | collective security | A type of coalition building strategy in which a group of nations agrees not to attack each other and to defend each other against an attack from one of the others, if such an attack is made. |  | 1 |
| 9787314884 | Détente | A French term often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a "thawing out" or "un-freezing" at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. |  | 2 |
| 9787314886 | SALT Talks | Two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. |  | 3 |
| 9787314887 | Tet Offensive | One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. A campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam |  | 4 |
| 9787314888 | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) | A student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. |  | 5 |
| 9787314889 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | An American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. |  | 6 |
| 9787314890 | nonviolent resistance | The practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence. Common examples: Boycotts, Sit-ins |  | 7 |
| 9787314891 | boycott | To withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest. |  | 8 |
| 9787314892 | sit-In | A form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. |  | 9 |
| 9787314895 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. |  | 10 |
| 9787314896 | The Great Society | A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. |  | 11 |
| 9787314897 | The Baby Boom | (1946-1964) The period of time when the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women (or approximately 1% of the total population size) in the United States. |  | 12 |
| 9787314898 | social mobility | The movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between layers or tiers in an open system of social stratification. |  | 13 |
| 9787314900 | Sun Belt | A region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the Southeast and Southwest (the geographic southern United States). Another rough boundary of the region is the area south of the 36th parallel, north latitude. |  | 14 |
| 9787314901 | Counterculture | A subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores. Such opinions became more visible and popular, especially in the 1960s and early 1970s in response to the Vietnam War. |  | 15 |
| 9787314904 | Miranda v. Arizona (1966) | The court ruled that those subjected to in-custody interrogation be advised of their constitutional right to an attorney and their right to remain silent. |  | 16 |
| 9787314905 | Roe v. Wade (1973) | The court legalized abortion by ruling that state laws could not restrict it during the first three months of pregnancy. Based on 4th Amendment rights of a person to be secure in their persons. |  | 17 |
| 9787314906 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | A World War II hero and former supreme commander of NATO who became U.S. president in 1953 after easily defeating Democratic opponent Adlai E. Stevenson. |  | 18 |
| 9787314918 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically. |  | 19 |
| 9787314920 | John F. Kennedy | 35th President of the United States 35th President of the United States; only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize; events during his administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War; assassinated in Dallas, TX in 1963 |  | 20 |
| 9787314921 | Election of 1960 | Brought about the era of political television. Between Kennedy and Nixon. Issues centered around the Cold War and economy. Kennedy argued that the nation faces serious threats from the soviets. Nixon countered that the US was on the right track under the current administration. Kennedy won by a narrow margin. |  | 21 |
| 9787314922 | Kent State Shootings | Incident in which National Guard troops fired at a group of students during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four people. |  | 22 |
| 9787314923 | Golf of Tonkin Resolution | Bill passed in 1964 that gave President Johnson authority to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the U.S." after an alleged attack on a naval vessel off the coast of Vietnam. It gave Johnson the ability to send over a large amount of combat troops to Vietnam. |  | 23 |
| 9787314924 | War Powers Act | 1973. A resolution of Congress that stated the President can only send troops into action abroad by authorization of Congress or if America is already under attack or serious threat. |  | 24 |
| 9787314925 | Richard Nixon | Elected President in 1968 and 1972 representing the Republican party. He was responsible for getting the United States out of the Vietnam War by using "Vietnamization", which was the withdrawal of 540,000 troops from South Vietnam for an extended period. He was responsible for the Nixon Doctrine. Was the first President to ever resign, due to the Watergate scandal. |  | 25 |
| 9787314926 | New Conservatism | This mostly republican political movement started as a reaction to the New Deal policies of the 1930's. Its goal was to reduce the role of government. |  | 26 |
| 9787314930 | Rollback | A strategy that called for liberating countries that were under Soviet dominion. |  | 27 |
| 9787314932 | Interstate Act | The largest public works project in the US history in acted during the Eisenhower administration it was designed for military and economic purposes. |  | 28 |
| 9787314933 | Suez Crisis | Nasser took over the Suez Canal to show separation of Egypt from the West, but Israel, the British, Iraq, and France were all against Nasser's action. The U.S. stepped in before too much serious fighting began. |  | 29 |
| 9787314938 | Affluent Society | Term used by economist John Kenneth Galbraith to describe the American economy in the 1950s, during which time many Americans joined the middle class and became enraptured with appliances and homes in the suburbs. |  | 30 |
| 9787314941 | Betty Frieden | Author of The Feminine Mystique (1963) she spoke out against women seeking fulfillment solely as wives and mothers and wanted women to "establish goals that will permit them to find their own identity." |  | 31 |
| 9787314942 | Warren Court | The Supreme Court during the period when Earl Warren was chief justice, noted for its activism in the areas of civil rights and free speech. |  | 32 |
| 9787314947 | SNCC | (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) a group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; they were the ones primarily responsible for creating the sit-in movement. | | 33 |
| 9787314948 | March on Washington | In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial. |  | 34 |
| 9787314949 | Black Power | A slogan used to reflect solidarity and racial consciousness, used by Malcolm X. It meant that equality could not be given, but had to be seized by a powerful, organized Black community. |  | 35 |
| 9787314950 | Black Panthers | A black political organization that was against peaceful protest and for violence if needed. The organization marked a shift in policy of the black movement, favoring militant ideals rather than peaceful protest. |  | 36 |
| 9787314951 | Cesar Chavez | Non-violent leader of the United Farm Workers from 1963-1970. Organized laborers in California and in the Southwest to strike against fruit and vegetable growers. Unionized Mexican-American farm workers. |  | 37 |
| 9787314953 | Equal Rights Amendment | A constitutional amendment originally introduced in Congress in 1923 and passed by Congress in 1972, stating that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Despite public support, the amendment failed to acquire the necessary support from three-fourths of the state legislatures. |  | 38 |
| 9787314954 | Silent Spring | A book written (Rachel Carson) to voice the concerns of environmentalists. Launched the environmentalist movement by pointing out the effects of civilization development. | 39 |
