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1 400 pt 600 pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt 400 pt 600pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt 400 pt 600 pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt 400 pt 600 pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt 400 pt 600 pt 800 pt 1000 pt 200 pt Politics Foreign AffairsEconomy Race and Culture Liberals v. Conservatives

2 Kennedy’s campaign slogan that came to represent civil rights, health care, and aid to education

3 The New Frontier

4 LBJ slogan for his domestic reform agenda

5 The Great Society

6 Nixon’s name for the group of Americans tto whom he appealed in the 68 election

7 The Silent Majority

8 Jimmy Carter’s phrase for what was wrong with Americans in 1979

9 A “crisis of confidence”

10 Term used to connote the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980

11 The Reagan Revolution

12 Key military action that began a decline in public support of the Vietnam War in 1968

13 The Tet Offensive

14 Treaty that resulted in large part because of Kennedy being shaken up by the Cuban Missile Crisis

15 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

16 Action taken by Nixon that resulted ultimately in the OPEC oil embargo

17 US support of Isreal in the Yom Kippur or October War in 1973

18 Two events that demonstrate the ups and downs of Carter’s diplomacy in the Middle East

19 Camp David Accords Iranian hostage crisis

20 Scandal that involved the sale of arms to an enemy and then using that money to illegally support the contras in Nicaragua

21 Iran-Contra Affair

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23 Space Race Defense spending Tax cuts

24 All helped stimulate the economy in the 60’s and 80’s

25 Name given to Reagan’s economic policy that attempted to stimulate business growth

26 Supply-side economics

27 Western hemispheric agreement to stop tariff barriers

28 NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)

29 Term used by Republicans to characterize the economy under Carter during the 1980 election, indicating zero growth despite rising inflation

30 Stagflation

31 Economic sector that experienced the most growth between 1960 and 2000; resulted in the movement of Americans to the south and west.

32 Technology

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34 Landmark case beginnng the desegregation of American society

35 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

36 Considered to the be book and the author who launched the modern feminist movement

37 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Freidan

38 Leader of Mexican- American farmworkers, he became a symbol of Hispanic pride

39 Cesar Chavez

40 Militant movement of American Indians that occupied Alcatraz and Wounded Knee

41 The American Indian Movement

42 Graying of America Growing Hispanic population Changing family structures Movement of people to the South and West

43 All demographic changes in the last 30 years

44 1973 Supreme Court decision that has caused the most cultural division since its issuance

45 Roe v. Wade

46 Conservatives see this as an ungodly attack on the family, while liberals tend to see it as an struggle for equal rights

47 The struggle over gay rights

48 Group of religious fundamentalists who sought to infuse their religious beliefs into the political process

49 The Moral Majority

50 Term used by conservatives to attack affirmative action.

51 Reverse discrimination

52 Term used to connote the 1960’s rejection of the dominant American culture

53 The counter culture


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