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President Truman's domestic policy (1948) that included civil rights and an extension and enlargement of the New Deal--health insurance, federal aid to education, public housing, and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.

Represented by President Eisenhower, it combined acceptance of the basic features of the New Deal with a conservative economic policy, particularly controlling government spending.

The "new" liberal and civil rights ideas advocated by Kennedy, in contrast to Eisenhower's conservative view.

President Johnson's domestic program that included Medicare, civil rights legislation, the War on Poverty; funding for the programs suffered because of the costs of the Vietnam War.

President Nixon's program to return power and tax dollars to the states and cities; the key aspect was revenue sharing, which distributed $30 billion in revenues to the states. Political philosophy of devolution, or of transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government to the states.

A significant decline in the economy over a prolonged period.

A rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy

A negative balance of trade or payments.

Provided college education and a year of unemployment compensation to returning WWII veterans.

The act amended the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and imposed certain restrictions of the money and power of labor unions, including a prohibition against mandatory closed shops.

Required Communists to register and prohibited them from working for the government.

monitor activities of foreign agents; investigate alleged communists

A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon.

convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

Supreme Court decision which restricted the powers of the president and the executive branch to seize private property in the absence of congress approval.

Democratic candidate in election of 1952

Wisconsin Senator who began sensational campaign in February, 1950 by asserting that the U.S. State Department had been infiltrated by Communists.

two once-rival organizations decided to put aside their differences and unite, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

The Supreme Court held that all defendants in serious criminal cases are entitled to legal counsel, so the state must appoint a free attorney to represent defendants who are too poor to afford one.

Part of the war on poverty, it was headed by R. Sargent Shiver, and was ineffective due to the complexity of the problem. It provided Job Corps, loans, training, VISTA, and educational programs.

Lyndon Johnson's plan to help fight poverty with the extra money laying around. It started many small programs, Medicare, Head Start, and reorganized immigration to eliminate national origin quotas. It was put on hold during the Vietnam War.

provided, under Social Security, for federal subsidies to pay for the hospitalization of sick people age 65 and over.

Abolished national origin quotas and instead, based immigration on skills and need for political asylum.

United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation

Formed in 1962 in Port Huron, Michigan, SDS condemned anti-Democratic tendencies of large corporations, racism and poverty, and called for a participatory Democracy.

Festival in New York. Music, Rock/Roll, drugs, counter-culture revolution.

A federal agency established under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 to undertake all administrative and regulatory functions related to the prevention, control, and abatement of air pollution.

A Nixon program that returned federal funds to the states to use as they saw fit.

An economic problem caused by a dwindling supply of energy, at an increasing price

Whip Inflation Now was an attempt to spur a grassroots movement to combat inflation, by encouraging personal savings and disciplined spending habits in combination with public measures, urged by U.S. President Gerald Ford.

National Guardsmen opened fire on a group of students protesting the Vietnam War.

Group unified by their rejection of traditional values and assumptions of Western society. Drugs.

With national media coverage, thousands of anti-war protestors, Blacks and Democratic supporters were clubbed by Major Daley's police.

Committee for the Reelection of the President; Established in 1971 to help Nixon get reelected. Involved in illegal activities such as the Watergate break-in.

Reagan's economic policy: 1. Reduce government spending 2.Reduce income and capital gains marginal tax rates, 3. Reduce government regulation of the economy, 4. Control the money supply to reduce inflation.

In Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to give up her bus seat for a White man as required by city ordinance. It started the Civil Rights Movement and an almost nation-wide bus boycott lasting 11 months.

The leader of the Civil Rights Movement and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he was assassinated outside his hotel room.

This portion of the Act stated that public accommodations could not be segregated and that nobody could be denied access to public accommodation on the basis of race.

Passed by Congress in 1965, it allowed for supervisors to register Blacks to vote in places where they had not been allowed to vote before.

A slogan used to reflect solidarity and racial consciousness, used by Malcolm X. It meant that equality could not be given, but had to be seized by a powerful, organized Black community.

Common name for the Nation of Islam, a religion that encouraged separatism from White society. They claimed the "White Devil" was the chief source of evil in the world.

leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans

militant civil rights leader, African-American activist and black nationalist, born Malcolm Little.

Barred colleges from admitting students solely on the basis of race, but allowed them to include race along with other considerations when deciding which students to admit.

Inspired by Betty Frieden, a reform organization that battled for equal rights with men by lobbying and testing laws in court. NOW wanted equal employment opportunities, equal pay, ERA, divorce law changes, and legalized abortion.

The Feminine Mystique, Depicted how difficult a woman's life is because she doesn't think about herself, only her family. Founded NOW.

Proposed the 27th Amendment, calling for equal rights for both sexes. Defeated in the House in 1972.

American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the Women's Liberation Movement.

Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional most state statutes restricting abortion. It ruled that a state may not prevent a woman from having an abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy, and could regulate, but not prohibit abortion during the second trimester.

Non-violent leader of the United Farm Workers from 1963-1970. Organized laborers in California and in the Southwest to strike against fruit and vegetable growers. Unionized Mexican-American farm workers.

This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers, boycott of grapes.

Formed in 1968 by urban Indians who seized the village of Wounded Knee in February, 1973 to bring attention to Indian rights. This 71-day confrontation with federal marshalls ended in a government agreement to reexamine treaty rights of the Ogalala Sioux.

Village seized by urban Indians who wanted Indian rights.

Persian Gulf War, final conflict, which was initiated with United Nations authorization, by a coalition force from 34 nations against Iraq, with the expressed purpose of expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after its invasion and annexation on 2 August 1990.

Secretary of State under George Bush Jr. Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs in Gulf War.

Commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991.

The significant increase in the birth rate from 1946 through 1957; the rise in population contributed to the growth of the suburbs, consumer culture, and the sharp increase in college enrollments in the 1960s.

Southern Democrats who bolted the party following the adoption of a civil rights plank at the 1948 convention; ran Strom Thurmond as their candidate in 1948 as the States' Rights party.

High inflation combined with high unemployment and a declining gross national product; used to describe economic condition of the country in the mid-1970s.

President Reagan's economic policy; reduction in taxes would give people more spendable income and in turn lead to business expansion and more jobs. The policy did increase the federal deficit.

Under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969), an activist Supreme Court became an important instrument of social and political change, particularly in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties.