Legacies
Founded in Oakland, CA this group focused on issues of police brutality and inner city crime.
Who were the Black Panthers?
This Congressional Act gave broad war powers to the President during the war.
What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
THIS was the name of the controversial Supreme Court case that legalized abortion?
What was Roe v. Wade?
The first Iraq War was a response to their invasion of this country.
What is Kuwait?
He said: "Read my lips, no new taxes."
Who was George H. W. Bush?
Founded in Minneapolis, MN this organization fought for Native American rights specifically around treaty obligation ignored by the government.
What is AIM (American Indian Movement)?
This route allowed the Vietminh to send supplies south to the Vietcong through Cambodia.
What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Economic condition in which currency loses value while job losses were also high.
What is "stagflation?"
Glasnost and Perestroika were policies created by this Soviet Premier. Helping precipitate the fall of the USSR.
Who was Mikhail Gobachev?
This event led to the USA PATRIOT Act, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the War on Terror.
What was 9/11?
Leader of 2nd wave Feminism, co-Founder of NOW and author of A Feminine Mystique.
Who was Betty Freidan?
This term was used to describe the Vietnam war as the first war Americans watched on television
What is a "living room war?"
What is the Watergate Hotel?
The first women appointed to the SCOTUS.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
In 1981 the Center for Disease Control discovered the first incidence of HIV/AIDS in the U. S.; at the time it was mostly ignored because it was considered a disease that only impacted THIS POPULATION.
Who were gay men (and intervenous drug users)?
Riots at THIS CLUB in New York city spear-headed the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
U.S. soldiers massacred women and children in THIS Vietnamese village - the commanding officer was later found guilty of murder (and punished with 3 years of house arrest).
What was My Lai?
This was the actual charge against President Bill Clinton leading to his impeachment.
What was perjury?
Or "lying under oath"
also: "obstruction of justice."
According to the theory of supply-side economics, THIS is the first step towards creating a healthy economy?
What is lowering taxes (on the rich and corporations)?
The primary cause of the Great Recession.
What was subprime mortgage speculation?
He co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Dolores Huerta.
Who was Cesar Chavez?
He leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post exposing the Government's continued lies about the war in Vietnam.
Who was Daniel Ellsberg?
President Nixon’s foreign policy strategy regarding China and the Soviet Union that means “a relaxation of tensions.”
What was "detente?"
The Amendment that Congress created to prevent Reagan from supporting the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua (which he did anyway).
What was the Boland Amendment?
His recorded beating at the hands of 5 police officers touched off days of riots in LA and throughout the U.S.
Who was Rodney King?