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Boyer, "The Enduring Vision" Chapter 29: 1968-1974 Flashcards

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1390638419This was group was inspired by sit-ins and the freedom rides; its goal was for a nonviolent youth movement that would transform America into a society whoses inhabitants can make decisions that affect their lives.Student for a Democratic Society (SDS)1
1390638420Founded by Mario Savio, this was a coalition of student groups insisting on the right to campus political activity.Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM)2
1390638421The uprising of individuals who believed that only radical rejection of compromise and consensus could rebuild America as loving, creative, non-materialistic, non-militaristic, and non-racist.The "New Left"/"Movement"3
1390638422A series of huge antiwar demonstrations in November of 1969, including the March Against Death in Washington; represented the high point of the "Movement""New Mobilization"4
1390638423A historically black institution, here was where Mississippi patrolmen, who were responding to a campus protest, fired into a women's dormitory, killing two and wounding a dozen others. This would infuriate students across the nation, resulting in hundreds of college closings.Jackson State College5
1390638424People who looked down upon employment and consumerism and preferred making what they needed, share with other, and not desire for what they did not have. They believed in love, community, cooperation, and immediate fulfillment; they didn't believe in private property and monogamy.Hippies6
1390638425A culture that is removed itself from the mainstream assumptions of society.Counterculture7
1390638426Over 400,000 young people came to this, located in New York's Catskill Mountains, to celebrate their version of freedom and harmony. It was 3 days and nights of drugs, sex and musicWoodstock Festival8
1390638427A Supreme Court ruling that prohibited the states from infringe upon a woman's rights to abort a fetus in the first trimester.Roe v. Wade9
1390638428The public emergence of homosexuality, epitomized from the retaliation of homosexuals at the Stonewall Inn, which sparked a surge in "gay pride", identity, self-acceptance, and activism.Gay Liberation10
1390638429A liberal Democratic from Minnesota and Vietnam War critic, he would win many sympathizers after the Tet offensive.Eugene McCarthy11
1390638430An attack from North Vietnamese forces (National Liberation Front) upon 100+ south Vietnamese cities and towns, including U.S. embassies. LBJ would the public's trust and interest after Walter Cronkite called for negotiation.Tet Offensive12
1390638431Seen as the rightful heir to the White House, he appealed to minorities, the poor, and working-class ethnic whites.Robert Kennedy13
1390638432LBJ's V.P., he would contest with Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the Election of 1968.Hubert Humphrey14
1390638433A group of anarchistic youth who wanted to rid of the political system by threatening to dump LSD into the Chicago river and release greased pigs into the city's crowded Loop area."Yippies" (the Youth International Party)15
1390638434To focus on foreign affairs, this man was chosen by Nixon. He was a professor of international relations and who shared Nixon's level of secrecy.Henry Kissinger16
1390638435In March of 1968, an army unit led by Lieutenant William Calley massacred several hundred South Vietnamese that were supposedly linked to the Vietcong here.My Lai17
1390638436A policy that was supported by Nixion and meant "to reduced tensions"; this created a new relationship among the U.S., Soviet Union, and China.détente18
1390638437Signed in January of 1973, this agreement ended the hostilities between the United States and North Vietnam, but left unresolved the differences between North and South Vietnam.Paris Accords19
1390638438These two treats held between the U.S. and the Soviet Union restricted the deployment of missile-defense systems, froze nuclear development for five years, and committed both countries to have strategic nuclear equality instead of superiority.Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)20
1390638439War waged upon Israel by Syria and Syria in 1973Yom Kippur War21
1390638440Kissinger's strategy of flying to the Middle East's capitals to negotiate a cease-fire to the Yom Kippur War, and to persuade the Arabs to end their oil embargo."shuttle Diplomacy"22
1390638441A member of the Apollo 11 crew, he was the first man to step on the moon.Neil Armstrong23
1390638442A nickname given to the men who were responsible to plug government leaks."the plumbers"24
1390638443A secret documentary history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, which revealed a long history of White House lies to Congres, foreign leaders, and the American people.Pentagon Papers25
1390638444The Senate's most outspoken Dove, this man gained the Democratic nomination to run for the presidential election of 1972; he was a radicalGeorge McGovern26
1390638445Led by attorney general John Mitchell, this group was funded with millions of dollars to create disagreement within the Democratic Party; they help "the plumbers" with the bugging of the Democratic National Headquarters.Committee to Re-Elect the President27
1390638446Otherwise known as W. Mark Felt, he was the informant of the White House's involvement in the Watergate."Deep Throat"28

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