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| 13279858063 | Great society | President Lyndon B Johnson's domestic program which included civil rights legislation, anti-poverty programs, government subsidy of medical care, federal aid to education, consumer protection and aid to the arts and humanities | 0 | |
| 13279858064 | Economic opportunity act | A 1964 act which created a series of programs, including Headstart to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the job corps and upward bound to provide young people with training and employment, aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in the impoverished areas | 1 | |
| 13279858065 | Medicare | A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes | 2 | |
| 13279858066 | Medicaid | Health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states | 3 | |
| 13279858067 | Equal pay act | 1963 law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work. trade union woman more especially critical in pushing for an winning congressional passage of the law | 4 | |
| 13279858068 | The feminine mystique | The title of an influential book written in 1963 Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby woman were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere. | 5 | |
| 13279858069 | Presidential commission on the status of women | Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961 which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination | 6 | |
| 13279858070 | National organization for women | Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966. Initially, Now focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace, but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists | 7 | |
| 13279858071 | gulf of Tonkin resolution | Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the gulf of Tonkin between the United States and North Vietnam. It gave the president virtually unlimited authority to conduct in the Vietnam war. the Senate terminated the resolution in 1971 falling out rage with US invasion of Cambodia | 8 | |
| 13279858072 | Operation rolling thunder | Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965; against expectations, it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting | 9 | |
| 13279858073 | Students for a democratic society | An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960 | 10 | |
| 13279858074 | Port Huron statement | A 1962 manifesto by students for a democratic society from its first national convention in Port Huron, Michigan, expressing students disillusionment with the nations consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor, as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign-policy including the war in Vietnam | 11 | |
| 13279858075 | New left | The term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s, distinguishing their activism from the old left-the communist and socialist of the 1930s and 40s who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues. | 12 | |
| 13279858076 | Young Americans for freedom | The largest student political organization in the country, whose conservative members defend free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam. | 13 | |
| 13279858077 | Sharon statement | Drafted by founding members of the young Americans for freedom, this manifesto outlined the groups principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan Administration in the 1980s | 14 | |
| 13279858078 | Counterculture | A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture. Became synonymous with hippies, people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in there Sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles. | 15 | |
| 13279858079 | Tet offensive | Major campaign of attacks launched throughout south Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong. A major turning point in the war it exposed the credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality, and it shook Americans confidence in the government. | 16 | |
| 13279858080 | 1968 democratic national convention | A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police. Inside the convention hall, the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam. | 17 | |
| 13279858081 | Chicano moratorium committee | Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam war | 18 | |
| 13279858082 | Women's liberation | A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger college educated woman fresh from the new left, anti-war, And civil rights movements who sought to end the denigration and exploitation of women | 19 | |
| 13279858083 | Title IX | A law passed by Congress in 1972 the brought in the 1964 civil rights act to include educational institutions prohibiting colleges and universities that receive federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex but requiring comparable funding for sports programs title I X made woman's Athletics a real presence on college campuses | 20 | |
| 13279858084 | Stonewall Inn | A two day riot by stonewall inn patrons after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969; event contributed to the rapid rise of the gay liberation movement | 21 | |
| 13279858085 | Silent majority | Term derived from the title of a book by Dan Jay. Wattenberg and Richard Scammon and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly assert their voices in contrast to those involved in the antiwar civil rights and women's movements | 22 | |
| 13279858086 | Vietnamization | A new US policy devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s, of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam war. American troop levels dropped an American casualties dropped correspondingly, but the killing in Vietnam continued | 23 | |
| 13279858087 | My Lai | The 1968 execution by US Army troops of nearly 500 people in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai including a large number of women and children | 24 | |
| 13279858088 | Détente | The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration, which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern, such as arms, control and trade. | 25 | |
| 13279858089 | Warren court | The Supreme Court under chief justice Earl Warren, which expanded the constitutions promise of equality and civil rights. It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights criminal rights reproductive freedom and separation of church and state. | 26 | |
| 13279858090 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Kennedy's Vice-President, he was Senate majority leader and candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1960. A master politician, he expanded and pushed through Congress his "Great Society" legislation, the most ambitious social legislation since the New Deal. | 27 | |
| 13279858091 | Barry Goldwater | 1964; Republican contender against LBJ for presidency; platform included lessening federal involvement, therefore opposing Civil Rights Act of 1964; lost by largest margin in history | 28 | |
| 13279858092 | Betty Friedan | 1960s; wrote "The Feminine Mystique," an account of housewives' lives in which they suboordinated their own aspirations to the needs of men; bestseller was an inspiration for many women to join the women's rights movement | 29 | |
| 13279858093 | Ngo Dinh Diem | American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime caused the Communist Viet Cong to thrive in the South and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. he was killed in a coup in 1963. | 30 | |
| 13279858094 | Robert Kennedy | He was a Democrat who ran for president in 1968 promoting civil rights and other equality based ideals. He was ultimately assassinated in 1968, leaving Nixon to take the presidency but instilling hope in many Americans. | 31 | |
| 13279858095 | Richard Nixon | He was a committee member of the House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities (to investigate "subversion"). He tried to catch Alger Hiss who was accused of being a communist agent in the 1930's. This brought Nixon to the attention of the American public. In 1956 he was Eisenhower's Vice-President. | 32 | |
| 13279858096 | Henry Kissinger | Awarded 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end Vietnam War and withdrawing American forces. Heavily involved in South American politics as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. Condoned covert tactics to prevent communism and facism from spreading throughout South America. | 33 | |
| 13279858097 | George Wallace | Governor of Alabama for four terms (1963-1967, 1971-1979 and 1983-1987). He ran for U.S. President four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. He is best known for his Southern populist[1] pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he abandoned later in life. | 34 |
