Post-War America
This term describes behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards.
What is conformity?
This Civil Rights leader criticized other Civil Rights leaders for advocating for the use of nonviolent tactics.
Who is Malcolm X?
Most of the Vietnamese population disliked this leader for his anti-Buddhist legislation.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
This president led international forces in the Persian Gulf War.
Who is President George H. W. Bush?
President Nixon was the first to visit this country and was able to establish trade and effectively remove them as a Cold War enemy.
What is the People's Republic of China?
This term describes the discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.
What is redlining?
This leader of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement organized farmworkers to push for better wages and working conditions.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Most American troops that were sent to Vietnam came from this socioeconomic class.
What is the working class?
Nixon began this government-led initiative to disrupt communities who had demonstrated against the Vietnam War and advocated for Civil Rights.
What is the War on Drugs?
The Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles in Cuba if the United States secretly agreed to remove its missiles from this country.
What is Turkey?
The second-wave feminist movement sought to end this.
What is gender-based discrimination in the workplace?
This term describes segregation by law.
What is de jure segregation?
This allowed President LBJ to send American troops to South Vietnam without Congressional approval.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
What were the four pillars of Reagonomics?
What are lower government spending, lower taxes, lower government regulation, and lower money supply?
This term describes to the CIA program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen fighting against the Soviet Army.
What is Operation Cyclone?
Most White, middle-class Americans moved to these areas (those who remained in the cities saw rising unemployment rates and poverty).
What are suburbs?
These were the "three evils of the world" according to MLK Jr.
What are racism, militarism, and the economic exploitation of poverty?
This televised event made it clear to the American public that the United States was not winning the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This was the "smoking gun" of the Watergate investigation.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This program provided WWII veterans with funds for college education, as well as cheap federal loan to purchase homes & start businesses.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public spaces, but did not end these two things...
What are discriminatory voting practices and housing discrimination?
This president inherited the Vietnam War and would oversee it for another two years, approving of aerial bombings of neighbors Laos and Cambodia.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This president was the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
Who is Gerald Ford?
The Dulles brothers' economic ties to this American company led to the CIA-led coup of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, the elected leader of Guatemala.
What is United Fruit Company?