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President Nixon's policy of replacing American military forces with those of South Vietnam to help get the U.S. out of the war.
What is Vietnamization?
This law provided women equal opportunity in education and athletics (sports)
What is title IX? (9)
Movement formed in the 1960s that focused on achieving greater economic and social equality for women.
What is the Feminist Movement?
Region straddling the Northeastern and the Midwest and Great Lakes states where there was economic decline, population loss and urban decay.
What is the rust belt?
A policy of the relaxing Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and between the U.S. and China that began under President Richard Nixon.
What is detente?
She was the first woman selected to serve on the US Supreme Court
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
This act reduced the power of the president to get involved in conflicts without congressional approval or notification
What is the War Powers Act?
This organization exists to clean up the earth and put rules in place for businesses so future generations can survive
What is the EPA? (environmental protection agency)
President Jimmy Carter offered incentives for using less energy and encouraged and tax cuts for companies who researched solutions to the energy crisis
What is alternate forms of energy?
This organization was upset with our foreign policy toward supporting Israel and cut off our oil supply starting an energy crisis
What is OPEC?
What is Watergate?
President Carter secretly meets with leaders of the Arab nations to negotiate a secret peace treaty after many conflicts and recognizes Israel as a country for the first time.
What are the Camp David Accords?
Author of "The Feminine Mystique" and first president of NOW (National Organization of Women) who fought for gender equality in the workplace, society, and traditional roles.
Who is Betty Friedman?
A housing community was built on top of a chemical waste dump causing residents higher rates of cancer birth defects/ miscarriages
What is the Love Canal Incident?
Kuwait was invaded by a neighboring country and started the first Persian Gulf War in the 1990's.
What is Iraq?
This largely Californian based movement fought for rights of agricultural workers with protests and boycotts.
What is the UFW? (United Farm Workers)
Students gathered to protest the US actions in the Vietnam war and 4 were killed by national guardsman during the anti war demonstration
What is the Kent State Incident?
He established supply side economic policies for big business by cutting taxes on wealthy, limiting gov regulation, increasing gov spending on military, and reducing the size of the federal gov
Who is President Reagan?
Incident where members of Reagans cabinet secretly negotiated weapons (arms) sales to Iran for hostages to fund Nicaraguan freedom fighters, against Reagans foreign policy.
What is the Iran Contra Affair?
This organization promoted traditional Christian values and morality instead of diversity and liberalism to guide society in the 1980's and dissolved after they felt they accomplished their mission
What is the Moral Majority?
The Amish in Wisconsin refused to send their children to school after 8th grade due to exercising religious freedom in the Supreme Court
What is Wisconsin vs Yoder?
After allowing the former Shah of Iran to receive medical treatment in America, the US Embassy in Iran was overrun and leads to a huge decline in support for Jimmy Carter
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
This top secret study that reveled the US Gov was not being honest about the war in Vietnam caused great distrust in the US government after its release by the newspapers and press
This accidental event opened up lines of communication and eased tensions with Communist China during Nixon's administartion
What is ping pong diplomacy?
Students wore black armbands to school protesting the Vietnam War challenging Free Speech in school for students
What is Tinker vs Des Moines?