Eisenhower Era through Watergate Flashcards
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| 22564782 | 14th Amendment | equal protection clause | 0 | |
| 22564783 | 15th Amendment | right to vote | 1 | |
| 22564784 | White Primaries | excluded blacks from voting | 2 | |
| 22564785 | Civil Rights Act of 1957 | dealt mostly with voting | 3 | |
| 22564786 | Nassir | Egyptian leader | 4 | |
| 22564787 | Suez Canal Crisis | Egypt took canal, brits. & french took back w/o telling us, agreement signed | 5 | |
| 22564788 | Eisenhower Doctrine | we'd help middle east counltry native gov't to stop commies (Lebanon & Syria mostly) | 6 | |
| 22564789 | U2 Crisis | U.S. spy plane crash in Soviet Union, pilot and wreckage recovered, peace conference called off | 7 | |
| 22564790 | August & October 1957 | Soviets launch ICBM/Sputnik launched | 8 | |
| 22564791 | February 1958 | we launch rocket | 9 | |
| 22564792 | National Defence Education Act | educate our kids in math and science | 10 | |
| 22564793 | NASA | National Aronautical Space Agency | 11 | |
| 22564794 | Yuri Gergarin | Soviet man in space | 12 | |
| 22564795 | Allen Sheppard | our man in space | 13 | |
| 22564796 | 1st Televised Debate | Nixon tanked & Kennedy, clean-cut was awesome | 14 | |
| 22564797 | Bay of Pigs | CIA tranined refugees of commie revolution to invade beaches, but failed miserably | 15 | |
| 22564798 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Soviets send nukes to Cuba, Quarantine Speech | 16 | |
| 22564799 | November 22, 1963 | Kennedy killed by Lee Harvey Oswald | 17 | |
| 22564800 | Great Society | end pockets of poverty | 18 | |
| 22564801 | Berry Goldwater | super-conservative/father of modern repub. party | 19 | |
| 22564802 | Medicare Act of 1965 | taxes paid for old peep medical stuff/medicade did welfare stuff | 20 | |
| 22564803 | Economic Opportunity Act | inner-cities to end pockets of poverty | 21 | |
| 22564804 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | abolish any restrictive devise on voting/ Federal Justice Dept.involved in procedures | 22 | |
| 22564805 | Giddeon v. Waynewright | right to an attourney | 23 | |
| 22564806 | Mapp v. Ohio | search & seazure w/ warrent or probable cause | 24 | |
| 22564807 | Miranda v. Arizona | Miranda Law | 25 | |
| 22564808 | Swann v. B.O.E. | ulpheld busing | 26 | |
| 22564809 | Dien-Bien-Phu | huge French fortress that French lost/ POW | 27 | |
| 22564810 | ARVN | Army of Republic of Vietnam/Diem's peeps | 28 | |
| 22564811 | NVA | North Vietnam Army/ helped Viet Cong | 29 | |
| 22564812 | Tonkin Gulf [Resolution] | supposedly, NV attacked American ships/ Operation Rolling Thunder [LBJ did what he wanted to do] | 30 | |
| 22564813 | Vietnamization | we help as advisors, but S. Viets. gotta step it up | 31 | |
| 22564814 | Democratic Convention in Chicago of 1968 | Bobby killed, so no frontrunner/ Hippies & Yippies go wild, police fighting/ Humphry nominated | 32 | |
| 22564815 | Men on the Moon | Buzz Aldrige & Neil Armstrong | 33 | |
| 22564816 | War Powers Resolution | tell congress within 48hrs., have out in 60 days if no war declared, congress get troops out whenever | 34 | |
| 22564817 | CREEP | Committee to re'elect the president | 35 | |
| 22564818 | Plumbers | stop Republican leaks to newspapers | 36 | |
| 22564819 | Watergate Scandal | Plumbers bug the Demos Nat'l Headquarters at Watergate; got caught | 37 |