Quarterly 2 Jeopardy Review

“Initial”

Vocabulary

Civil Rights Crisis Abroad

Presidential Programs &

Policies

Vietnam Begins with a “C”

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Women’s rights organization founded

in 1966

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National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)

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military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear

weapons by opposing sides would cause the complete

annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

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MAD: Mutually Assured

Destruction

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an area separating hostile nations where neither side is

allowed to have military forces.

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DMZ: Demilitarized

Zone

missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads great

distances

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ICBM: Inter-Continental

Ballistic Missiles

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a U.S. agency created to gather secret information

about foreign governments

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CIA: Central Intelligence

Agency

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Programs that make special efforts to hire or

enroll minorities

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Affirmative Action

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This court case gave women the right to an

abortion during the first 3 months of

pregnancy

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Roe v Wade

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Non-violent civil rights leader for Latino rights and

farmer’s rights.

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Cesar Chavez

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This proposed addition to the U.S.

Constitution to protect women’s rights was never

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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

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These groups were responsible for the

turn in the Civil Rights Movement

from non-violent to more militant

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AIM (American Indian Movement)

Black Panthers/ Black Power

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This Asian nation was divided following the departure of the

French in 1954

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Vietnam

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The U.S.S.R. put up a wall in this city to keep

Communists from fleeing to a democracy

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Berlin, Germany

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This Asian nation was divided following WWII, and after a 3 year war

between the Communist North & the Democratic

South in the 1950s, remains divided today

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Korea

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Extremely tense time when a nearby country had nuclear weapons

facing toward us

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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When JFK approved an invasion of Cuba

to “take out” communist leader

Fidel Castro

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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President Kennedy increased funding for this agency to push

forward the U.S. space program

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NASA (National Aeronautics and

Space Administration)

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President Johnson’s Great Society

programs focused on protecting civil rights

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Poverty

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The willingness to go to the edge of all-out war, policy

coined by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles under

President Eisenhower

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Brinkmanship

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This program begun by President Johnson provides health care for the

elderly

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Medicare

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A policy developed during the Kennedy administration, that involved preparing for a variety of military responses to international crises rather than focusing on the use of

nuclear weapons.

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Flexible Response

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This massive Communist attack in

Vietnam in 1968 was a military victory for the

U.S. but a political defeat

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Tet Offensive

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This American strategy required “body

count” statistics to determine to what

extent the enemy was being worn down

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Attrition

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Term for President Nixon’s secret plan

that would bring “peace with honor” to

Vietnam

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Vietnamization

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Due to the impact television had on Vietnam, it was given this nickname

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The Living Room War

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This provided President Johnson the power to

expand the war in Vietnam without the approval of Congress and this took

that power away

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

& War Powers Act

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This law prohibited discrimination based

upon race, color, religion, national origin, & gender

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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This country sent 300,000 troops into North Korea to stop

advancing U.S. forces during the Korean

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China

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Nickname applied to President Kennedy’s

administration because of its youth,

energy, & idealism

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Camelot

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This U.S. television news anchor reported from

Vietnam that the war was not going as well as claimed by the U.S.

Government

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(Walter) Cronkite

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The term for the young people of the 1960s that adopted

values different from those of mainstream

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Counterculture

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