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August of the 1961, the Soviets began building this project
What is the Berlin Wall? |
the first men to walk on the moon in 1969?
Who were Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong? |
Amendment to the United States Constitution limited the minimum voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment? |
evacuate about 2,000 orphans from the country. In addition to over 110,000 Vietnamese refugees. What is operation baby lift? |
a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the power plant
What is 3 mile island? |
alternative, egalitarian farms and homesteads in Northern California, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee and other states
What is a commune?
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Kennedy backed a U.S.-aided invasion of Cuba by rebels, with the purpose of overthrowing the government
What is the Bay of Pigs?
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aimed at eliminating discriminatory hiring
What is the EEOC? |
Republican Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP) were caught breaking into a Hotel and planting some bugs in the room.
What is Watergate?
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case legalized abortion January 22, 1973
What is Roe V. Wade? |
the first nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2,250 of all categories of delivery vehicles
What is SALT II? |
The “capitol” of the hippie movement, around 15,000 hippies moved here
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Kennedy’s social program Unemployment benefits expanded improve housing and transportation water pollution control act Food stamps for low-income Americans expansion in school milk and school lunch distribution promoted a project to land Americans on the moon
What is New Frontier? |
a diminishing role for the U.S. military in Vietnam, training south Vietnamese
What is Vietnamization? |
a permanent relaxation in international affairs during the Cold War
What is détente?
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No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance
What is Title IX?
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a bunch of anti-American Muslim militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran What is the Iran Hostage Crisis? |
Human–be–in 20,000 hippies gathering in Golden Gate State Park
What is the Summer of love?
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lasted 13 nerve-racking days and put the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and the world at the brink of nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missle Crisis?
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gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of “conventional” military force in Southeast Asia. What is Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
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Required government contractors to hire minority workers
What is the Philadelphia Plan?
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the Supreme Court ruled that desegregation plans could not require students to move across school-district lines What is the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley case?
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They wanted to preserve the Communist government that had been established in the 1970s, and was collapsing
Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
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On October 6, 1966, the state of California made LSD a controlled substance, making the drug illegal This was the response?
What is The Love Pageant Rally?
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pushing dangerous events to the verge of—or to the brink of—disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome.
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He challenged Americans to eliminate the troubles of the poor.
What is the Great Society?
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Trying to end the Warren Court – known for it’s liberal rulings, Nixon chose him to replace the retiring Earl Warren in 1969 Who was Warren E. Burger?
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the final act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held Thirty-five states, including the USA, Canada, signed the declaration in an attempt to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West. What is the Helsinki Accords?
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peace deal that Carter mediated What is Israel peace accords?
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The end of the hippie movement What is Altamont Free Concert and Charles Manson? |
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Name three effects of the turbulent 1960's and the foreign issues upon American society.
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