US History Final Exam Flashcards
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| 798458161 | Rolling Thunder | bombing campaign in Vietnam | |
| 798458162 | Tet Offensive | huge attack by North Vietnamese, was shown on TV, huge U.S. victory | |
| 798458163 | Kent State | Ohio National Guard opened fire on students for excessive protesting of the Vietnam War (4 killed, 12 injured) | |
| 798458164 | POW | prisoner of war | |
| 798458165 | Iran-Iraq War | brutal war, US supported Iran | |
| 798458166 | Glasnost/perestroika | opening up of USSR, restructuring of USSR | |
| 798458167 | Iran-Contra Affair | sold weapons to Iran, used the money for the contras | |
| 798458168 | sandinistas | leaders of Nicaraguan gov. | |
| 798458169 | Berlin Wall | west side=free, east side= hostile, communist | |
| 798458170 | star wars | missile defense system created by Ronald Reagan | |
| 798458171 | Thurgood Marshall | first, black supreme court justice | |
| 798458172 | Rosa Parks | didn't give up her seat on bus, started the bus boycott | |
| 798458173 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | civil rights leader, gave famous "I have a dream" speech | |
| 798458174 | Malcom X | opposite from MLK, assassinated by his own people | |
| 798458175 | Louis Farrakhan | militant black leader, leader of Muslim nation | |
| 798458176 | Jesse Jackson | "face" of civil rights movement, cried at Obama's inaguration | |
| 798458177 | March on Selma | lead by MLK, focused on rights for voting | |
| 798458178 | Freedom Rides | Africans+Whites marched to DC and protested | |
| 798458179 | Civil Rights Act | 1964, under Lyndon B. Johnsonq | |
| 798458180 | Voting Rights Act | can't have someone not vote because of their race or heritage | |
| 798458181 | Million Man March | 1995, a couple hundred thousand black males marched to DC | |
| 798458182 | SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | |
| 798458183 | NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | |
| 798458184 | Black Panthers | militant group of blacks | |
| 798458185 | Plessy vs ferguson | sewing because of segregation of transportation | |
| 798458186 | Brown Vs Board of Education | case that desegregated schools | |
| 798458187 | gay rights | homosexuals were looking for equal rights | |
| 798458188 | Dwight Eisenhower | big into fight against communism, helped to build roads and freeways | |
| 798458189 | John F. Kennedy | battled communism, sparked Vietnam war, Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crisis, civil rights movement | |
| 798458190 | Lyndon B. Johnsom | civil rights legislation | |
| 798458191 | Richard Nixon | ended Vietnam war, dealt with civil rights, watergate scandal | |
| 798458192 | Gerald Ford | lower taxes, smaller governmentq | |
| 798458193 | Jimmy Carter | energy crisis, high interest rates, Iran Hostage Crisis | |
| 798458194 | Ronald Reagan | lowered taxes, smaller government, huge military government, ended cold war | |
| 798458195 | George H. W. Bush | "no new taxes", Persian Gulf War | |
| 798458196 | Bill Clinton | affair while in office, was impeached, good economy | |
| 798458197 | George W. Bush | tanked economy, housing crisis | |
| 798458198 | Barrack Obama | recession, Obama care, Bengasi incident |