1390638419 | This 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 | |
1390638420 | Founded by Mario Savio, this was a coalition of student groups insisting on the right to campus political activity. | Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM) | 2 | |
1390638421 | The 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 | |
1390638422 | A 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 | |
1390638423 | A 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 College | 5 | |
1390638424 | People 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. | Hippies | 6 | |
1390638425 | A culture that is removed itself from the mainstream assumptions of society. | Counterculture | 7 | |
1390638426 | Over 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 music | Woodstock Festival | 8 | |
1390638427 | A Supreme Court ruling that prohibited the states from infringe upon a woman's rights to abort a fetus in the first trimester. | Roe v. Wade | 9 | |
1390638428 | The 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 Liberation | 10 | |
1390638429 | A liberal Democratic from Minnesota and Vietnam War critic, he would win many sympathizers after the Tet offensive. | Eugene McCarthy | 11 | |
1390638430 | An 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 Offensive | 12 | |
1390638431 | Seen as the rightful heir to the White House, he appealed to minorities, the poor, and working-class ethnic whites. | Robert Kennedy | 13 | |
1390638432 | LBJ's V.P., he would contest with Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the Election of 1968. | Hubert Humphrey | 14 | |
1390638433 | A 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 | |
1390638434 | To 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 Kissinger | 16 | |
1390638435 | In 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 Lai | 17 | |
1390638436 | A policy that was supported by Nixion and meant "to reduced tensions"; this created a new relationship among the U.S., Soviet Union, and China. | détente | 18 | |
1390638437 | Signed 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 Accords | 19 | |
1390638438 | These 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 | |
1390638439 | War waged upon Israel by Syria and Syria in 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 21 | |
1390638440 | Kissinger'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 | |
1390638441 | A member of the Apollo 11 crew, he was the first man to step on the moon. | Neil Armstrong | 23 | |
1390638442 | A nickname given to the men who were responsible to plug government leaks. | "the plumbers" | 24 | |
1390638443 | A 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 Papers | 25 | |
1390638444 | The Senate's most outspoken Dove, this man gained the Democratic nomination to run for the presidential election of 1972; he was a radical | George McGovern | 26 | |
1390638445 | Led 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 President | 27 | |
1390638446 | Otherwise known as W. Mark Felt, he was the informant of the White House's involvement in the Watergate. | "Deep Throat" | 28 |
Boyer, "The Enduring Vision" Chapter 29: 1968-1974 Flashcards
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