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| agreed that all members could/should retaliate or assist in defense if another member is attacked. | |
| A non-violent civil activist group lead by Martin Luther King Jr | |
| tightening alien exclusion and deportation laws and allowing for the detention of dangerous, disloyal, or subversive people in times of war. Required communists to register with at | |
| budget cuts in a range of anti-poverty programs and welfare benefits including housing subsidies, child nutrition programs, food stamps, public assistance, student loans, low-incom | |
| Executive order, which mandated the desegregation of the military | |
| Johnson’s justification for sending more American troops to Vietnam, claimed it was “open aggression on the high seas.” | |
| Native Americans (Sioux) occupied Mount Rushmore staking their claim on the Black Hills which were theirs in the first place. | |
| The new left adopted civil liberties such as free speech and turned them into a radical protest | |
| Johnson’s program, which started Head Start, Upward Bound, Job Corps, VISTA, and the Office of Economic Opportunity. However, it was viewed as class warfare by local governments. | |
| Passed both houses, intended to amend the constitution so that discrimination could not occur on the account of sex. Powerful movements against it caused it not to pass state legis | |
| An activist group lead by James Farmer that promoted a non-violent but direct confrontation. Most centers were in the Northeast and West Coast | |
| A non-violent approach to desegregation, overturned segregation of city buses | |
| Bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, designed to cut off supplies to Northern Vietnam. The goal: attrition | |
| triggered by a boycott by OPEC, a barrel goes from 3 dollars to 12 dollars in 5 days and peaked at 34 dollars a barrel. Reflected the defeat in the Vietnam War. | |
| Gave economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey to help “free people” in their fight against totalitarian regimes | |
| Signed by Nixon with the Soviet Union to slow the rapid growth of nuclear warheads. | |
| Combatted Nato and upheld the Soviet Regime | |
| required equal pay for equal work (gender-wise) but left out domestic and agricultural work and had no form of enforcement. However, it was the first federal law against sex discri | |
| organization to promote feminist women’s participation in all levels of the political system. Focused on reproductive rights, passage of the ERA, and affordable childcare. | |
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| Led by Ella Baker, a militant activist group that represented younger generations of civil rights promoters. | |
| 9 Colored students admitted to a white school in Little Rock by board of ed. Governor ordered Arkansas national guard to keep them out, Eisenhower retaliated with paratroopers to e | |
| Native Americans occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs building to combat the years of broken treaties the US government made with them. | |
| provided college or vocational education for returning vets (not women) as well as one year of unemployment compensation | |
| a dominant metaphor for Soviet Power in Eastern Europe | |
| Considered the NAACP of women, intended to bring women into full participation in American society and making sexes equal. | |
| Challenged Texas law that allowed for abortion only if it affected woman’s health in a life or death situation. Created the first trimester choice formula. | |
| Also known as AIM, Native Americans left prisons with determinations to change policies on racism and religious freedoms. | |
| Speech which called for a new left | |
| Supreme Court Case, which was decided unanimously, that separate but equal has no place in education. Unfortunately, it did not give a deadline and did not desegregate other public | |
| outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, government, and employment; invalidated southern Jim Crow laws. | |
| did away with the quota system and opened the way for immigration from Asia. | |
| Rides from DC to the Deep South on greyhound buses with people of color sitting in the front of the bus. Confronted mobs, arrests, etc. | |
| a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. | |
| Also known as the loyalty order, established the Federal Employee Loyalty Program to root out any communists or communist sympathizers in federal government. | |
| A violent, college campus based anti-Vietnam march | |
| cut taxes for corporations and high wage earning individuals with the thought that it would “trickle down.” | |
| outlawed any discriminatory voting practices that had kept African Americans disenfranchised in the South. Ex: literacy tests. | |
| Formed to repeal anti-abortion laws, with the thought that doctors should not make abortion decisions, women should. | |
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