HIST 1302 CH 32 – Flashcards
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The Port Huron Statement launched Students for a Democratic Society, which adopted the term "New Left" for their efforts at grassroots democracy.
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True
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Betty Friedan was a leading feminist who helped to launch the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.
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True
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Of all the minorities in the 1960s, the plight of the Native Americans was the most desperate.
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True
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Richard J. Daley urged people to "tune in, turn on, drop out."
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False
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Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act dealt with affirmative action for women.
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True
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Two years after the Vietnam War ended, South Vietnam took control of the North
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False
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used its oil reserves as a political and economic weapon after the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
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True
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The Nixon administration's most innovative domestic proposal was school busing.
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False
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Détente was an easing of tensions between the United States and the Communist powers initiated by Richard Nixon.
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True
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The American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee in 1973 to show its support for the desegregation of schools.
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False
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At Kent State University in Ohio, and Jackson State in Mississippi, students were killed by members of the National Guard who were present to quell anti-war
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True
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Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, had resigned before the Watergate scandal was concluded because he had been accepting bribes from contractors.
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True
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President Nixon vetoed both the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
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False
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Ford's full pardon of Nixon was a popular act that ended the nightmare of Watergate.
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False
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The War Powers Act requires a president to withdraw troops sent abroad after sixty days, unless Congress specifically authorizes a longer stay.
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True
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The free-speech movement attacked
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the modern university.
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At the 1968 Democratic National Convention,
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all of the above
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By 1971, the New Left had declined as a political movement because
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it had abandoned its democratic and pacifist principles.
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An important manifestation of the counterculture was
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the Woodstock music festival in 1969.
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In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that
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abortion within the first three months of pregnancy was legal.
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The Stonewall riots sparked a movement for
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gay rights.
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Nixon sought to lessen criticism of the Vietnam War by
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all of the above
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The greatest protests against Nixon's Vietnam policy came after
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the Cambodian incursion.
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In 1968, Nixon's "southern strategy" involved
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promising to go slow on enforcing civil rights laws.
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Causes of the economic malaise of the 1970s included
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competition in international markets.
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Nixon's freeze of wages and prices in 1971
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became voluntary in 1973.
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The Watergate was
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all of the above
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During the Watergate crisis Nixon was not accused of
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stealing funds from his reelection campaign.
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Perhaps Gerald Ford's most memorable act as president was
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pardoning Richard Nixon.
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Jimmy Carter's 1976 victory can be attributed to
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his strong support among southern African Americans.
