APUSH Chapter 30 – Flashcards

A Native American organization founded in 1968 to protest government policies and injustices suffered by Native Americans. In 1973, organized the armed occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

She was an American feminist, activist and writer. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique".

He was a farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers. He helped to improve conditions for migrant farm workers and unionize them.

Group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns. The counterculture challenged the structure of modern American society, attacking its banality, hollowness, artificiality, materialism, and isolation from nature.

"-- Clinton's effort to end homosexuals exclusion from the military proved difficult. The "don't ask, don't tell" policy stated as long as homosexual soldiers did not openly reveal their sexual orientation, commanders could not investigate it.

It was a college campus phenomenon inspired first by the struggle for civil rights and later fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War. The Free Speech Movement began in 1964, when students at the University of California, Berkeley protested a ban on on-campus political activities.

He was a forceful advocate of liberal issues. Many middle class people rejected what he stood for . He profited greatly from party reforms that reduced the power of party leaders.

He succeeded to the presidency upon Nixon's resignation in August 1974 and focused his brief administration on containing inflation and reviving public faith in the presidency.

National Security Advisor and Secretary of State during the Nixon Administration, he was responsible for negotiating an end to the Yom Kippur War as well as the Treaty of Paris that led to a ceasefire in Vietnam in 1973.

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.

One of the most visible results of the increasingly assertive youth movement. It was a movement of students in the West who advocated simpler, purer societies based on an updated, romanticized version of Marxism.

Policy that proclaimed that the US would honor existing defense commitments, but that in the future other nations would have to fight their own wars without the aid of American troops. It was a response to the war in Vietnam..

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) had operated as an informal bargaining unit for the sale of oil by Third World nations, but had seldom managed to exercise any real strength. In the early 1970s, OPEC began to use its oil as both an economic tool and a political weapon

She was a marine biologist who had become a successful science writer. Called the "mother of the modern conservation movement" because of her 1962 book, Silent Spring, which exposed the poisonous effects of pesticides

Landmark Supreme Court case concerning a woman's right to have an abortion. The case originated when the woman under the alias of "Jane Roe" petitioned the U.S. District court for Nothern Texas to have an abortion. The case was appealed and eventually reached the Supreme Court. After debate, the court ruled that under the 14th ammendment, women have a right to privacy concerning their bodies, and thus abortion is a legal activity. The decision faced heavy disent from two of the seven judges, who believed that it was the states responsibility to protect the potential of live conceived through a fetus.

label Nixon gave to middle-class Americans who supported him, obeyed the laws, and wanted "peace with honor" in Vietnam, he contrasted this group with students and civil rights activists who disrupted the country with protests in the late 1960s and early 1970s .

Nixon's vice-president resigned and pleaded "no contest" to charges of tax evasion on payments made to him when he was governor of Maryland. He was replaced by Gerald R. Ford.

"- It was the name given the economic condition throughout most of the 1970s in which prices rose rapidly (inflation) but without economic growth (stagnation). Unemployment rose along with inflation. In large part, these conditions were the economic consequences of rising oil prices.

In June 1969, police officers raided this Inn, which was a gay nightclub in New York, and began arresting patrons for attending the place. Gay onlookers taunted the police and then attacked them. Someone started a fire in the Inn, almost trapping people inside. This marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement.

founded in Michigan 1962; radical organization wanted to rid American society of poverty, racism, and violence; embraced liberal reforms; advocated participator democracy; individual > group

It was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops

A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment.

-- The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as The Battle at Wounded Knee Creek, was the last major armed conflict between the Lakota Sioux and the United States, subsequently described as a "massacre" by General Nelson A. Miles in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

An offshoot group from Students for a Democratic Society were responsible for a few case of arson and bombing that destroyed campus buildings and claimed several lives.