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Kennedy’s campaign slogan that came to represent civil rights, health care, and aid to education
The New Frontier
LBJ slogan for his domestic reform agenda
The Great Society
Nixon’s name for the group of Americans tto whom he appealed in the 68 election
The Silent Majority
Jimmy Carter’s phrase for what was wrong with Americans in 1979
A “crisis of confidence”
Term used to connote the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980
The Reagan Revolution
Key military action that began a decline in public support of the Vietnam War in 1968
The Tet Offensive
Treaty that resulted in large part because of Kennedy being shaken up by the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Action taken by Nixon that resulted ultimately in the OPEC oil embargo
US support of Isreal in the Yom Kippur or October War in 1973
Two events that demonstrate the ups and downs of Carter’s diplomacy in the Middle East
Camp David Accords Iranian hostage crisis
Scandal that involved the sale of arms to an enemy and then using that money to illegally support the contras in Nicaragua
Iran-Contra Affair
Space Race Defense spending Tax cuts
All helped stimulate the economy in the 60’s and 80’s
Name given to Reagan’s economic policy that attempted to stimulate business growth
Supply-side economics
Western hemispheric agreement to stop tariff barriers
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Term used by Republicans to characterize the economy under Carter during the 1980 election, indicating zero growth despite rising inflation
Stagflation
Economic sector that experienced the most growth between 1960 and 2000; resulted in the movement of Americans to the south and west.
Technology
Landmark case beginnng the desegregation of American society
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Considered to the be book and the author who launched the modern feminist movement
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Freidan
Leader of Mexican- American farmworkers, he became a symbol of Hispanic pride
Cesar Chavez
Militant movement of American Indians that occupied Alcatraz and Wounded Knee
The American Indian Movement
Graying of America Growing Hispanic population Changing family structures Movement of people to the South and West
All demographic changes in the last 30 years
1973 Supreme Court decision that has caused the most cultural division since its issuance
Roe v. Wade
Conservatives see this as an ungodly attack on the family, while liberals tend to see it as an struggle for equal rights
The struggle over gay rights
Group of religious fundamentalists who sought to infuse their religious beliefs into the political process
The Moral Majority
Term used by conservatives to attack affirmative action.
Reverse discrimination
Term used to connote the 1960’s rejection of the dominant American culture
The counter culture