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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