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Date Posted: 11:24:32 04/24/02 Wed
Author: maggie
Subject: 65-100 of the last packet darton passed out...

65. Guatemala- 1954. CIA engineered a coup over their leftist government. Further evidence of American involvement in foreign affairs.

66. Consumer culture- blossomed in the 1950�s. 1st McDonalds, 442 tv stations in 1956, popular music like Elvis on the rise, great advertisement industries were born.

67. Peace Corps- JFK proposed peace corps, an army of idealistic and mostly youthful volunteers.

68. Berlin Wall- soviet construction, begun in 1961 designed to plug up the heavy population drain from East to West Germany.

69. Bay of Pigs- incident with Cuba. 1961. 1200 exiles landed in Bay. JFK refused to get involved in the situation and the anti-Castroites surrendered in the end.

70. Missile Crisis- Cuba. Russians were preparing an offensive nuclear-tipped assault base stationed there. JFK and Khrushchev butted heads- came very close to war. Was resolved six days later, October 28, 1962.

71. Freedom Rides- groups of people on buses who wanted to end segregation in facilities serving interstate bus passengers. Traveled throughout the south.

72. gulf of Tonkin resolution- passed under Johnson it gave him great power concerning the southeastern Asia situation

73. office of economic opportunity- front line on the Great Society�s War on poverty. Had, in 1953, its appropriation doubled to nearly two billion.

74. Medicare- 1965. was passed by congress and was a bitter pill for the American Medical Association- was welcomed by millions who were being pushed into poverty by skyrocketing medical costs.

75. Civil Rights Act of 1964- gave federal government power to enforce school desegregation orders and to prohibit racial discrimination in all kinds of public accommodations and employments.

76. Voting Rights Act of 1965- outward literacy tests and sent federal voter registrars into several southern states.

77. pueblo-

78. George Wallace- former governor of Alabama, huge supporter of segregation. Would not allow black students into the university of Alabama.

79. Free Speech Movement- of the 1960�s. consisted of many freedom fighters, rallies, etc. was a huge part of the society during the 60�s. anti-war, anti-racism.

80. counter culture/hippie/new left- all 1960�s originated. Rebellion against common ways of thought, war, organized government. Took place with the nation�s youth.

81. Guns and butter-

82. Nixon Doctrine- proclaimed the U.S. would honor its existing defense commitments but in the future Asians and others would have to fight their own wars without the support of American ground troops.

83. Kent State/Jackson State- huge protests. @ Kent the National Guard fired into a crowd killing four. @ Jackson highway patrol killed two black students when firing into a crowd.

84. Pentagon Papers- publishing of the top-secret Pentagon study of America�s involvement in the Vietnam War. Was leaked to the New York Times by Elsberg.

85. SALT- Strategic Arms Limitations Talk. 2nd most significant pact- was to freeze the number�s of long-range nuclear missiles for five years.

86. Grain Deal trip to Cina- nixon�s deal- 3 year arrangement in which the U.S. agreed to sell Russia at least $750 million worth of wheat, corn and other cereals.

87. Gideon- 1963. all defendants in serious criminal cases were entitled to legal counsel even if they were too poor to afford it.

88. and 89. Escobedo and Miranda- 1964 and 1966, ensured the right of the accused to remain silent and to enjoy other protections when accused of a crime.

90. Roe v. Wade- 1973. legalized abortion.

91. EPA- Environmental Protection Agency. 1970. was for the betterment of our environment, a great social crusade.

92. Rachel Carson- 1962. author of Silent Spring, a piece of muckrack that exposed the poisonous effects of pesticides.

93. and 94. Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act- 1970, 1972. along with the resource conservation and recovery act of 1976 and the superfund, these acts put the EPA on the front line of ecological sanity.

95. Southern Strategy-

96. Watergate- a burglary of the democratic headquarters in D.C. it was later seen that Nixon knew of it- the resulting scandal caused his resignation. Vice President Ford replaced him.

97. War Powers Act- 1973. required the president to report to congress within 48 hours after committing troops to a foreign conflict.

98. Oil Embargo- 1973. with the Arabs. We were charged outrageous prices and faced severe oil shortages.

99. WIN- Whip Inflation Now. Campaign of Ford�s that never got off the ground designed to reduce the drastic inflationary prices in the U.S. Inflation did drop from 12% to 5% by 1976, but not because of WIN.

100. Helsinki Accords- signed in 1975 Finland. One agreement legitimized the USSR established Polish boundaries, another guaranteed more liberal exchanges of people and information between the East and West.

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