2012-2013 us history final exam.
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| 829751051 | Black power movement | started in LA in 1966; involved Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton; Carmichael encouraged blacks to carry guns for self-defense; founded the Black Panthers to promote black community and to combat police brutality; fostered racial pride and splintered Civil Rights Movement | 1 | |
| 829751052 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places. | 2 | |
| 829751053 | Brown v. Board of Education | Kansas: US Supreme Court ruled against "separate but equal"; widely celebrated but bitterly despised in the deep South | 3 | |
| 829751054 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | Alabama: After Parks' arrest, MLK Jr. led the boycott that lasted for more than a year; Supreme court finally ruled that local bus segregation was unconstitutional | 4 | |
| 829751055 | "Little Rock Nine" | Arkansas: Prompted by White Citizens' Council, Gov. Faubus ordered National Guard troops to prevent 9 black students from entering Central High; President Eisenhower considered this unconstitutional and sent federal soldiers to Arkansas to protect the students | 5 | |
| 829751056 | Greensboro sit-ins | North Carolina: Four black college students from SNCC sat in at a public lunch counter | 6 | |
| 829751057 | SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | 7 | |
| 829751058 | Freedom Rides | In the South: Both whites and blacks (from CORE and SNCC) traveled throughout the South to test southern compliance with Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. VA; Attorney General Kennedy sent federal marshals to protect riders and pressured Federal Commerce Commission to prohibit segregation in all interstate transportation | 8 | |
| 829751059 | CORE | Congress of Racial Equality; founded 1942; pioneered sit-in protests | 9 | |
| 829751060 | Birmingham Protest/March | Alabama: MLK Jr. counted on police chief Connor's violent response in leading his march; televised violence led to national outrage; "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by MLK Jr.; President Kennedy threatened to send federal troops, but riots continued. | 10 | |
| 829751061 | Eugene "Bull" Connor | Police chief during Birmingham protest, the violence of which sparked national outrage | 11 | |
| 829751062 | March on Washington | D.C.: March on Washington in support of President Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill; MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" | 12 | |
| 829751063 | "Freedom Summer" | In the South: civil rights workers spread throughout South to assist in registering black voters; some violence, but blacks managed to vote certain racist officials out of office | 13 | |
| 829751064 | Selma March "Bloody Sunday" | Alabama: MLK Jr. led march to call attention to voting rights; sheriff Clark ordered state troopers to beat protesters, some killed; President Johnson order state national guard to protect marchers, and Congress later passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | 14 | |
| 829751065 | Watts riots | California: worst racial uprising in nation's history; Moynihan Report (about breakdown of black urban families); riots throughout the "long hot summer" | 15 | |
| 829751066 | MLK Jr. Assassination | Tennessee: MLK Jr. led march in support of striking sanitation workers; "I See the Promised Land" speech; shot and killed by James Earl Ray; presidential candidate Robert Kennedy assassinated later that year; marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement | 16 | |
| 829751067 | Orval Faubus | Governor during "Little Rock Nine"; ordered National Guard troops to prevent the Nine from entering the school | 17 | |
| 829751068 | Assassination of Robert Kennedy | Occurred after assasssination of MLK Jr.; marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement | 18 | |
| 829751069 | George Wallace | 1919-1998. Four time governor of Alabama. Most famous for his pro-segregation attitude and as a symbol for states' rights. | 19 | |
| 829751070 | James Meredith | With NAACP help, he sued Ole Miss for admission; violence erupted and President Kennedy sent federal marshals to escort him. | 20 | |
| 829751071 | Malcolm X | Black Muslim leader who said Blacks needed to have separate society from whites, but later changed his views. He was assasinated in 1965; affiliated with Black Power movement and black nationalism | 21 | |
| 829751072 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Leader of the Civil Rights Movement from , 1950s; civil rights leader advocated non-violence and civil disobedience as tools for change; organized protests such as the March on Washington, as well as indirectly inspired sit-ins and protests across the nation; affiliated with SCLC | 22 | |
| 829751073 | Stokely Carmichael | Became the leader of SNCC in 1966, popularizing the term "Black power". He initially favored integration and nonviolence, but grew more militant after he became the leader of the Black Panthers. | 23 | |
| 829751074 | Thurgood Marshall | the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Prior to becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his activity in the Little Rock 9 and his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education | 24 | |
| 829751075 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage | 25 | |
| 829751076 | Great Society | President Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the US | 26 | |
| 829751077 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Became president after Kennedy's assassination and reelected in 1964; Democrat; signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, promoted his "Great Society" plan, part of which included the "war on poverty", Medicare and Medicaid established; Vietnam: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Tet Offensive | 27 | |
| 829751078 | War on Poverty | President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's to provide greater social services for the poor and elderly | 28 | |
| 829751079 | Rachel Carson | Biologist; wrote "Silent Spring" which argued that humans and environment are interdependent for survival. | 29 | |
| 829751080 | Counterculture | Rejection of social norms by adopting alternative lifestyle; viewed modern life as dehumanizing | 30 | |
| 829751081 | Betty Friedan | author of "Feminine Mystique"; founded the National Organization for Women in 1966 | 31 | |
| 829751082 | Equal Rights Amendment | 1972; constitutional amendment passed to guarantee equal rights to women; never ratified by the states | 32 | |
| 829751083 | Feminism | Movement that worked to achieve equal rights and free choice for women. | 33 | |
| 829751084 | Hippies | Members of counterculture; valued simple, natural lifestyle and personal fulfillment. | 34 | |
| 829751085 | Woodstock | 1969; week-long music festival that captured the appeal of 60's youth (hippies) | 35 | |
| 829751086 | Arab Oil Embargo | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cut oil sales to US because of US support of Israel during Yom Kippur War; led to gas shortages and recession in 1974-75 | 36 | |
| 829751087 | Camp David Accords | 1977; peace treaty between Egypt and Israel; Carter's greatest achievement as president | 37 | |
| 829751088 | Gerald Ford | 1974-77; replaced Nixon as President; only President to be unelected | 38 | |
| 829751089 | Iran hostage crisis | 1979-81; mobs opposed to US-backed leader seized 53 Americans hostage; released on the day Carter left office | 39 | |
| 829751090 | Jimmy Carter | 1977-81; Democrat elected as Washington outsider; intelligent but unpopular and unable to deal with economic and political crises | 40 | |
| 829751091 | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; currently 12 members | 41 | |
| 829751092 | Vietnam Policy of Richard Nixon | 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) and the only president to resign the office. He initially escalated the Vietnam War, overseeing secret bombing campaigns, but soon withdrew American troops and successfully negotiated a ceasefire with North Vietnam, effectively ending American involvement in the war. Watergate Scandal. | 42 | |
| 829751093 | Watergate Scandal | 1972-74; Nixon involved in a conspiracy to cover-up politically-motivated break-in at Democratic HQ at Watergate Hotel in DC; Nixon forced to resign | 43 | |
| 829751094 | Grandfather clause | A device used by southern states to disenfranchise African Americans. It restricted voting to those whose grandfathers had voted before 1867. | 44 | |
| 829751095 | Jim Crow Segregation | State and local laws enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated segregation in all public facilities, with a "separate but equal" status for black Americans and members of other non-white racial groups. | 45 | |
| 829751096 | Literacy Test | A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote | 46 | |
| 829751097 | Lynching | The practice of an angry mob hanging a percieved criminal without regard to due process. In the South, blacks who did not behave as the inferiors to whites might be lynched by white mobs. | 47 | |
| 829751098 | NAACP | 1909; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; to fight segregation and discrimination | 48 | |
| 829751099 | Poll taxes | Required citiens to pay tax before voting; prevented African Americans from voting | 49 | |
| 829751100 | W.E.B. duBois | 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 | 50 | |
| 829751101 | Clayton Antitrust Act | law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations | 51 | |
| 829751102 | Federal Reserve System | The country's central banking system, which is responsible for the nation's monetary policy by regulating the supply of money and interest rates | 52 | |
| 829751103 | Initiative | Process by which citizens put a proposed new law on the ballot in the next election by collecting signatures in the form of a petition. | 53 | |
| 829751104 | Muckrakers | Journalists who exposed poor working conditions. | 54 | |
| 829751105 | 19th Amendment | Granted women the right to vote. | 55 | |
| 829751106 | Goals of Progressivism | 1. Make government more accountable 2.Government should curb influence of wealthy 3.Government needs expanded powers to improve citizens' lives 4.Government should be more efficient and less corrupt | 56 | |
| 829751107 | Prohibition | The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment | 57 | |
| 829751108 | Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906; The act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment or impure of falsely labeled food and drugs | 58 | |
| 829751109 | Recall | Procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before their next election. | 59 | |
| 829751110 | Referendum | Allows citizens to reject or approve a law passed by legislature. | 60 | |
| 829751111 | Teddy Roosevelt | Progressive president that believed government should be more involved in business. He was known as a trustbuster because he broke-up the monopolies. | 61 | |
| 829751112 | United Mine Workers' Strike | 1919 strike for pay increases and better working hours that further weakened public support for unions | 62 | |
| 829751113 | United State Forest Service | Teddy Roosevelt; 1906; to manage nation's water and timber resources | 63 | |
| 829751114 | Upton Sinclair | Wrote "The Jungle" and raised awareness of poor working conditions of meat packing industry. | 64 | |
| 829751115 | Women's suffrage | National American Woman Suffrage Association formed in 1910 carries cause of women's suffrage to victory, granted suffrage in the 19th amendment, women also began to replace men in industries during the war | 65 | |
| 829751116 | Woodrow Wilson | U.S. President, who led USA into WWI. He proposed the 14 points. He attended the peace conference at Versailles. | 66 | |
| 829751117 | Alliances' contribution to war | The alliances overlapped and led to quick outbreak of war | 67 | |
| 829751118 | Allied Powers | Russia, France, Serbia, Great Britain | 68 | |
| 829751119 | Central Powers | Germany, Austris-Hungary, Ottoman Empire | 69 | |
| 829751120 | Espionage Act | Law in 1917 that made it illegal to interfere with the draft | 70 | |
| 829751121 | 14 Points | Woodrow Wilson's peace plan to end WWI. It calls for free trade; an end to secret pacts between nations; freedom of the seas; arms reduction; and the creation of a world organization - called the League of Nations | 71 | |
| 829751122 | Great Migration | Large number of blacks moved from South to North to work in factories | 72 | |
| 829751123 | League of Nations | 1920; internationl organization intended to ensure peace around the world | 73 | |
| 829751124 | Russian Revolution | Czar Nicholas II gave up the throne for a republican government; removal of autocracy made it more ideal for US to join Allied Powers with Russia. | 74 | |
| 829751125 | Sedition Act | Amendment to the Espionage Act; made it illegal to speak against the American way of life | 75 | |
| 829751126 | Treaty of Versailles | The treaty imposed on Germany by France, Great Britain, the United States, and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. | 76 | |
| 829751127 | U-boats | German ships that attacked British ships to keep food and ammo from reaching Great Britain; attacked passenger ships | 77 | |
| 829751128 | War bonds | WWI; certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war. | 78 | |
| 829751129 | War Industries Board | Headed by Baruch; oversaw war-related production; distributed raw materials; fixed prices; outlined production rates | 79 | |
| 829751130 | Goals of Woodrow Wilson | Peace; 14 points | 80 | |
| 829751131 | Al Capone | Chicago mobster who thrived off of illegal sales of alcohol and other murderous stuff. | 81 | |
| 829751132 | Babe Ruth | Baseball player who united the country because everyone loved him | 82 | |
| 829751133 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | "The Great Gatsby"; portrayed the shallowness of Jazz Age America | 83 | |
| 829751134 | Flappers | symbolized the social revolution that stemmed from questioning of attitudes and ideas that started WWI; brought women toward equality; inspired fashion change | 84 | |
| 829751135 | Harlem Renaissance | African American literary/musical awakening of the 1920s | 85 | |
| 829751136 | James Weldon Johnson | leading write of the Harlem Group; executive secretary of the NAACP during their most active period | 86 | |
| 829751137 | Jazz | Grew out of African American music of the South, including ragtime and blues; represented new age of radio | 87 | |
| 829751138 | KKK | Revived in 1915 and expanded to oppose and un-American (Jews, immigrants); died down 1927 | 88 | |
| 829751139 | Langston Hughes | poet, short story writer, journalist; clear voice about struggles of being human, American and black. | 89 | |
| 829751140 | Marcus Garvey | Leader of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA); inspired the middle working class and racial pride; back to Africa movement | 90 | |
| 829751141 | Effects of mass media | Evolution of print, film, and broadcast methods improved communication and made information available to many more people | 91 | |
| 829751142 | Causes of the Twenties | Prosperity following WWI | 92 | |
| 829751143 | Scopes Monkey Trial | 1925; Clarence Darrow (free speech) and William Jennings Bryan (fundamentalist) debated issue of evolution in public schools | 93 | |
| 829751144 | Speakeasies | Underground bars in the 20s that illegally sold alcohol | 94 | |
| 829751145 | Zora Neale Hurston | 1925; part of the Harlem Renaissance movement; "Their eyes were watching God" | 95 | |
| 829751146 | Buying on Margin | People bought what they couldn't afford; contributed largely to the Great Depression | 96 | |
| 829751147 | Communism | An economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions; prompted Red Scare in US | 97 | |
| 829751148 | Consumer economy | An economy that depends on a large amount of spending by consumers | 98 | |
| 829751149 | Henry Ford | auto maker; assembly line; mass-produced automobiles and made it affordable for the common person | 99 | |
| 829751150 | Isolationism | Hoover wanted to stay out of Europe's stuff; contributed to Great Depression | 100 | |
| 829751151 | Kellog-Briand Pact | Agreement between 15 nations that renounced war as a means of national policy | 101 | |
| 829751152 | Laissez-faire | Coolidge's policy for a hands-off government | 102 | |
| 829751153 | Palmer Raids | A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities | 103 | |
| 829751154 | Red Scare | Most instense outbreak of national alarm, began in 1919. Success of communists in Russia, American radicals embracing communism followed by a series of mail bombings frightened Americans. | 104 | |
| 829751155 | Sacco-Venzetti Trial | Contributed to Red Scare; accused Italians for their socialist attitudes | 105 | |
| 829751156 | Speculation | Over-valuing land; people got poor | 106 | |
| 829751157 | Tea Pot Dome Scandal | Albert Hall sold federal oil to a private company, made lots of money; first American convicted of bribery while holding a cabinet position | 107 | |
| 829751158 | Warren Harding | 29th president of the US; Republican; "Return to Normalcy" (life as it had been before WWI-peace, isolation); presidency was marred by scandal | 108 | |
| 829751159 | Bonus Army | 1932; 20,000 jobless WWI veterans and families camped in DC and demanded payment of pension bonus as promised in 1945. | 109 | |
| 829751160 | Douglas MacArthur | General who led soldiers to attack the bonus army in DC | 110 | |
| 829751161 | Dow Jones Industrial Index | Average of stock prices major industries; very high in Sept 1929 | 111 | |
| 829751162 | Dust Bowl | Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages. | 112 | |
| 829751163 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | President (1933-1945); elected four times, he led the country's recovery from the Depression and to victory in World War II. He died in office weeks before Germany's surrender | 113 | |
| 829751164 | Great Crash of 1929 | Black Tuesday- market suffered biggest drop in history; crash didn't cause the depression, but quickly eroded American confidence in the future; a huge brake on economic activity | 114 | |
| 829751165 | Philosophy of Herbert Hoover | "Rugged Individualism" - the idea that people should suceed through their own efforts | 115 | |
| 829751166 | Hoovervilles | Shanty-towns which emerged as a result of the Depression; named after Hoover | 116 | |
| 829751167 | Rugged Individualism | Hoover's philosophy that people succeed through their own efforts | 117 | |
| 829751168 | Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) | May 1933; raised farm prices by paying governmental financial assistence (subsidies) to any farmers who cut production of crops | 118 | |
| 829751169 | Court packing scandal | FDR attempted to pack the court with justices who supported his New Deal policies. | 119 | |
| 829751170 | Demagogue | Leaders who manipulate people with half-truths, deceptive promises, and scare tactics; included Father Coughlin and Huey Long | 120 | |
| 829751171 | Eleanor Roosevelt | Travelled on behalf of FDR and reported to him about the conditions of the country | 121 | |
| 829751172 | Father Charles Coughlin | Broadcasted anti-New Deal messages over radio; flipflopped, went radical and was kicked off the air | 122 | |
| 829751173 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | 1933; insured bank deposits up to $5,000 | 123 | |
| 829751174 | Huey Long | Senator from Louisiana; demagogue; improved education, medical care, public services; shot in 1936 before he could run for presidency | 124 | |
| 829751175 | Mary MacLeod Bethune | THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO HEAD A FEDERAL AGENCY | 125 | |
| 829751176 | New Deal | President Franklin Roosevelt's precursor of the modern welfare state (1933-1939); programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insureance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy; increased power of the state and the state's intervention in U.S. social and economic life. | 126 | |
| 829751177 | Roosevelt's Hundred Days | A time when congress was called into a special session. Started after the inauguration and lasted until mid-June. The New Deal Programs were created during this time. | 127 | |
| 829751178 | Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) | 1934; regulated stock market, protected investors from dishonest trading practicing | 128 | |
| 829751179 | Wagner Act | Legalized union practices (collective practicing and closed shops); outlawed spying on union activities and blacklisting. | 129 | |
| 829751180 | Lend-Lease Act | Approve by Congress in March 1941; The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States." | 130 | |
| 829751181 | Pearl Harbor | Dec 7 1941; FDR was limiting trade with Japan; there were some peace talks but then Japan sprung a surprise attack. | 131 | |
| 829751182 | Allied war strategy | Force Germany into a two front war (from France and Belgium) and blockade them from receiving supplies | 132 | |
| 829751183 | Dwight Eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany | 133 | |
| 829751184 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Dropping of the atom bomb on both cities killed thousands and merited the surrender of Japan; order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman | 134 | |
| 829751185 | Island-hopping | US military policy of conquering Pacific islands one-by-one with the goal of a naval invasion of mainland Japan | 135 | |
| 829751186 | Japanese-American Internment | After the attack on Pearl Harbor, people grew suspicious of Japanese being spies; Congress deemed wartime relocation constitutional | 136 | |
| 829751187 | Manhattan Project | Secret American program during WWII to develop an atomic bomb; Oppenheimer | 137 | |
| 829751188 | Norman Rockwell | Artist who illustrated the Four Freedoms spoken of by FDR in paintings which the government distributed in posters throughout the war | 138 | |
| 829751189 | Nuremberg Trials | Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an international military tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace and against humanity; also war crimes | 139 | |
| 829751190 | Office of War Mobilization | Federal agency formed to coordinate issues related to war production during WWII | 140 | |
| 829751191 | Robert Oppenheimer | Supervised construction of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project | 141 | |
| 829751192 | Rosie the Riveter | A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part. | 142 | |
| 829751193 | Effects of War production | All industry became war-related and managed by government agencies | 143 | |
| 829751194 | Berlin wall | served to separate East Berlin from communist West Berlin. It became a symbol of the cold war. | 144 | |
| 829751195 | Brinkmanship | A 1956 term used by secretary of state John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests | 145 | |
| 829751196 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 146 | |
| 829751197 | House Un-American Activities Committee | established in 1938 to investigate disloyalty in the U.S. | 147 | |
| 829751198 | Joseph McCarthy | United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957) | 148 | |
| 829751199 | McCarthyism | term used to describe McCarthy's anti-communist smear tactics | 149 | |
| 829751200 | Korean War | conflict over the future of the Korean peninsula 1950-1953 that ended in a stalemate | 150 | |
| 829751201 | Marshall Plan | program of american economic assistance to western Europe announced in 1947 | 151 | |
| 829751202 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization:1949 alliance of nations that agreed to ban together in the even of war and to support and protect each nation involved | 152 | |
| 829751203 | Sputnik | the first artificial satellite to orbit earth launch by the Russian in 1957 that it left Americans with the fear of an airstrike | 153 | |
| 829751204 | Truman Doctrine | Truman's speech calling the US to take a leadership role in the world and support nations threatened by communism | 154 | |
| 829751205 | United Nations | International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations. | 155 | |
| 829751206 | Yalta Conference | Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill in 1945 met to determine the future of Germany and Poland. Divided Germany into four zones and Stalin promised to declare war on Japan after German surrendered and Poland remained the largest issue. | 156 | |
| 829751207 | Bay Pigs Invasion | Failed invasion of Cuba by a group of anti-Castro forces in 1961 | 157 | |
| 829751208 | Cuban Missel Crisis | A terrifying standoff between the US and the USSR that brought the super powers to the brink of nuclear war | 158 | |
| 829751209 | Fidel Castro | A former revolutionary who established a long-lasting communist government in Cuba | 159 | |
| 829751210 | Peace Corps | established by Kennedy in 1961 that sent volunteers abroad as educators, health workers, etc. to help developing nations around the world | 160 | |
| 829751211 | Domino theory | the fear that if one Southeast nation fell to the communists surrounding nations would also fall | 161 | |
| 829751212 | Election of 1968 | Johnson declares he will not run for reelection. Hubert Humphrey against Richard Nixon ending with the election of Nixon. There were many disillusioned democrats who did not vote at all | 162 | |
| 829751213 | Fall of Saigon | North Vietnamese took over Saigon and reunited a newly communist Vietnam | 163 | |
| 829751214 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | granted Johnson nearly all war related power without official declaration of war | 164 | |
| 829751215 | Ho Chi Minh | the head of Vietminh (the league for independence for Vietnam) who sympathized with communist ideas and fought for independence during World War II | 165 | |
| 829751216 | Kent State Massacre | violent protesting students were met by the national guard and four were killed. The images of this event shook the nation. | 166 | |
| 829751217 | My Lai Massacre | American soldiers slaughter Vietnamese old men, women and children. A helicopter of American men stopped the massacre and were awarded the soldiers medal | 167 | |
| 829751218 | Ngo Ding Diem | the first president of anti-communist South Vietnam who was assassinated. | 168 | |
| 829751219 | Paris peace talks | Johnson called for peace negotiations in May 1968 but failed to produce an agreement. | 169 | |
| 829751220 | Richard Nixon | Announced the new policy of Vietnamization to get American out of the war and expanded the war into Cambodia to clear out communist camps. The war continued but a peace agreement was signed requiring America to withdraw their forces and that prisoners of war would be released. | 170 | |
| 829751221 | Vietnamization | Nixon's plan to remove american forces and replace them with South Vietnamese soldiers | 171 | |
| 829751222 | baby boom | after soldier returned from war the birth rate exponentially increased as a result of many more people working and making a living and continued through 1940s | 172 | |
| 829751223 | Beatniks | members of the beat generation who were writers, artists, etc. and promoted spontaneity, spirituality and challenged traditional patterns of respectability | 173 | |
| 829751224 | Elvis Presley | A star performer of the early days of rock and roll in which his performances showcased his flamboyant style and good looks. His rock and roll music did not sit well with the older Americans of the time. | 174 | |
| 829751225 | GI bill of Rights | servicemens' readjustment act of 1944 gave low interest mortgages for new homes and provided educational stipends for college and graduate school for world war II veterans | 175 | |
| 829751226 | Modern Republicanism | Eisenhower's policy of being conservative when it come to money and liberal when it comes to human beings. He wanted to cut spending, cut taxes, and balance the budget. | 176 | |
| 829751227 | Motels | one of the new businesses that represented the new age of cars and the middle class life style that allowed them a place to stay on long road trips | 177 | |
| 829751228 | suburban growth | causes: GI bill of rights made mortgages more affordable to more people, Levitt's new mass production built more homes in less time. effects: stores began to move from the cities to the suburbs, there was an increased demand for cars because the public transportation did not stretch into the suburbs | 178 | |
| 829751229 | television (1950s) | was a new medium for advertising, became a new bonding experience for families, allowed people to visualize the brutality of war, used to introduce a standard way of living | 179 | |
| 829751230 | white collar jobs | increased in number due to automation and pressured employees to conform and had negative effects on war veterans | 180 | |
| 829751231 | AFL and CIO | AFL represented skilled workers and most workers were not included. CIO for lower paid and more ethnic workers. They were seperate in the 30s but joined in the 50s. Since 33% of the US workers were unionized American federation of labor and the congress of industrial organizations merged in 1955 called the AFL-CIO was more powerful and remains a major force to this day., | 181 | |
| 829751232 | William Levitt | built new communities in the suburbs pioneering new techniques in home building and the fast rate of production cut costs. His developments were known as "levittowns." | 182 | |
| 829751233 | Nixon's Checkers Speech | Accused of misusing campaign funds for himself; his daughter was given a dog that he refused to take away despite those allegations; dog's name was Checkers | 183 |
