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Great Society
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President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.
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Economic Opportunity Act
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An economic legislation that was part of the Great Society. It created many social programs to help the poor.
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Medicare
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A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older
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Medicaid
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A health care payment program sponsored by federal & state governments
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Equal Pay Act
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made it illegal for employers to pay female workers less than men for the same job
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The Feminine Mystique
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written by Betty Friedan, journalist and mother of three children; described the problems of middle-class American women and the fact that women were being denied equality with men; said that women were kept from reaching their full human capacities
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Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
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Advisory organizations within the bureaucracy that are headed by commissioners appointed by the president. An example is the Commission on Civil Rights.
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National Organization for Women
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Founded in 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) called for equal employment opportunity and equal pay for women. NOW also championed the legalization of abortion and passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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bombing campaign over North Vietnam, supposed to weaken enemy's ability and will to fight
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Students for a Democratic Society
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a campus-based political organization founded in 1961 by Tom Hayden that became an iconic representation of the New Left. Originally geared toward the intellectual promise of "participatory democracy," SDS emerged at the forefront of the civil rights, antipoverty, and anitwar movements during the 1960s
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Port Huron Statement
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Manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, which criticized the federal government for racial inequality, poverty, and also the Cold War and international peace.
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New Left
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Coalition of younger members of the Democratic party and radical student groups. Believed in participatory democracy, free speech, civil rights and racial brotherhood, and opposed the war in Vietnam.
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Young American for Freedom
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Conservative "new right". A youth organization critical of Johnson and his liberal public policy, as well as increase government involvement in the economy, the growing interference of government in the social sphere, and "ineffective" containment foreign policy.
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Sharon Statement
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conservative youths with new radical ideas. it summarized the belief that free market supported personal freedom, limited government, and international communist must be destroyed
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counterculture
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-cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society
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Tet offensive
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1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment
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1968 Democratic National Convention
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significant event in presidential election of 1968; demonstrated the confusion and lack of unity among Democrats; outside, protests and police brutality
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women's liberation
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-a 1960s political movement that was born from Second Wave Feminism. It refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment and sexual violence. Women wanted to be treated equally to men.
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Title IX
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A United States law enacted on June 23, 1972 that states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
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Stonewall Inn
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In NYC, any bar that was frequented by homosexuals was raided by police and beat up; In Stonewall in 1969, the people fought back- they were all arrested but it was an awakening moment for the US
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silent majority
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A phrase used to describe people, whatever their economic status, who uphold traditional values, especially against the counterculture of the 1960s
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Vietnamization
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A war policy in Vietnam initiated by Nixon in June of 1969. This strategy called for dramatic reduction of U.S. troops followed by an increased injection of S. Vietnamese troops in their place. A considerable success, this plan allowed for a drop in troops to 24,000 by 1972. . This policy became the cornerstone of the so-called "Nixon Doctrine". As applied to Vietnam, it was labeled "Vietnamization".
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My lai massacre
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1968, in which American troops had brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of My Lai, also led to more opposition to the war.
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detente
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A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
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Warren Court
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the chief justice that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board of Education (1954); he was the first justice to help the civil rights movement, judicial activism
