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1918-1941 Harlem Renaissance Authors Langston Hughes, McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullet Praise expression of black

k culture of the time National Origins Act 1924 Reduced quota, reduced numbers from Eastern and Southern Europe, Asians banned, Canadians and Latin Americans exempt Cultural Isolation 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 Amendments th 18 : Established Prohibition in the United States; only amendment to the Constitution that has been repealed th 19 : Prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex th 20 : Establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices st 21 : Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandated nationwide Prohibition Andrew Mellon Secretary of the treasury Introduced the trickle-down economics theory in order to promote business and increase money available for speculation Neutrality Acts Laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II Were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts Albert Fall A United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal John L. Lewis An American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 Hoovervilles The popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression Named after President Herbert Hoover because he allegedly let the nation slide into depression Back to Africa Movement AKA Colonization Movement Originated in the United States in the nineteenth century, and encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors Spirit of St. Louis The custom-built single engine, single seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 2021, 1927, on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize Palmer Raids Congressional support to raid houses of radicals believed to have connections to communism Lost Generation New generation of writers outside of Protestantism, resentment of ideals betrayed by society Fitzgerald (despised materialism, The Great Gatsby), Lewis (against upper class- Babbit and Mainstreet), Faulkner (stream of consciousness), T.S. Eliot Keynesian Economics AKA Keynesianism AKA Keynesian Theory A macroeconomic theory based on the ideas of 20th century British economist John Maynard Keynes Argues that private sector decisions sometimes lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes and therefore, advocates active policy responses by the public sector, including monetary policy actions by the central bank and fiscal policy actions by the government to stabilize output over the business cycle Warren G. Harding The 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack in 1923 His conservative stance on issues such as taxes, affable manner, and campaign manager Harry Daugherty's 'make no enemies' strategy enabled Harding to become the compromise choice at the 1920 Republican National Convention F. Scott Fitzgerald An American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age th A member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s and is widely regarded as one of the 20 century's greatest writers His most celebrated classic is The Great Gatsby National Labor Relations Board
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An independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices National Industrial Recovery Act An American statute which authorized the President of the United States to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery, and established a national public works program Huey Long AKA The Kingfish Noted for his radical populist policies Created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934 Advocated federal spending on works, public, old age pensions and other social programs Georgia OKeeffe A major figure in American art from the 1920s Received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath An American writer The Grapes of Wrath was written in 1939 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The book is set in the Great Depression and describes a family of sharecroppers, the Joads, who were driven from their land due to the dust storms of the Dust Bowl 1962 Received the Nobel Prize for Literature Lend-Lease Act The name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies Court Packing Scheme A legislative initiative to add more justices to the Supreme Court proposed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt shortly after his victory in the 1936 presidential election Indian Reorganization Act A U.S. federal legislation which secured certain rights to Native Americans, including Alaska Natives Works Progress Administration (WPA) The largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects

Langston Hughes An American poet, novelist, playwright, short writer, and columnist One of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry Best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance Wrote about the Harlem Renaissance saying that "Harlem was in vogue" Quota System NAACP AKA National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Formed by white progressives, adopted goals of Niagara Movement, in response to Springfield Race Riots Bonus March An assemblage of some 43,000 marchers17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932 Demand for immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates Schenck v. U.S. Upheld constitutionality of Espionage Act; Congress right to limit free speech during times of war Phony War A phase in early World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations in Continental Europe Various European powers had declared war on one another but neither side had committed to launching a significant attack, and there was relatively little fighting on the ground Sacco and Vanzetti Prejudiced jury sentenced them to death, caused riots around the world, new trial denied TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

A federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression Henry Ford The American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production Universal Negro Improvement Association An international self-help organization founded by Marcus Garvey America First Committee The foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II Kellogg-Briand Pact A multinational treaty that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense Hundred Days "The First Hundred Days", the start of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 administration, resulting in the New Deal New Deal A series of economic programs passed by Congress during the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to his reelection in 1937 The programs were responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the 3 Rs: relief, recovery and reform Calvin Coolidge The 30th President of the United States Restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity Social Security Act Drafted during Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal Fair Labor Standards Act A United States federal law Applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage FLSA established a national minimum wage, guaranteed 'time-and-a-half' for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor," a term defined in the statute Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) A United States government corporation created by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 Provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, currently up to $250,000 per depositor per bank Share Our Wealth A movement begun during the Great Depression by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana Thomas Hart Benton An American artist, best known for his political posters H.L. Menken An American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English Known as the "Sage of Baltimore" Regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century Normalcy A return to normalcy was United States presidential candidate Warren Hardings campaign promise in the election of 1920 Cash and Carry Allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash Purpose was to hold neutrality between the United States and European countries, while still giving material aid to Britain (without the need to extend the same such aid to Germany on account of the fact that the Germans had no funds and that British control of the Atlantic sea lanes also prevented them collecting any material) Congress of Industrial Organization Formed to encourage the AFL to organize workers in mass production industries along industrial union lines Securities and Exchange Commission

An independent agency which holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other electronic securities markets in the United States Washington Naval Conference AKA Washington Arms Conference A military conference called by the administration of President Warren G. Harding in Washington, D.C. from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922 Conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations having interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia Soviet Russia was not invited to the conference First international conference held in the United States and the first disarmament conference in history, and is studied by political scientists as a model for a successful disarmament movement Ku Klux Klan Spread quickly Opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) and conservative, Stephensons faults and jail sentence led to demise Scottsboro Boys Nine black defendants in a 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama rape case, which was heard by the United States Supreme Court twice in Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama These decisions established the principles that criminal defendants are entitled to effective assistance of counsel and that people may not be de facto excluded from juries because of their race Scopes Trial Darwinian against Fundamentalist; John Scopes convicted for teaching Darwinism; Scopes found guilty Schechter v. U.S. (Sick Chicken) Unconstitutionalized the NRA due to delegation of legislative authority from Congress to executive Margaret Sanger An American birth control activist, advocate of eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League Herbert Hoover The 31st President of the United States Tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, none of which produced economic recovery during his term Dole Marcus Garvey United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Back to Africa movement for racial pride and separatism; inspired self-confidence in blacks Charles Lindberg Considered a hero for his solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane Elijah Mohammad (Black Muslims) An African American Muslim activist, religious leader and leader of the Nation of Islam organization from 1934 until his death A mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, and boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., whom he renamed Muhammad Ali Stimson Doctrine A policy of the United States federal government, enunciated in a note of January 10, 1933, to Japan and China, of nonrecognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force Brain Trust A term for a group of close advisors to a political candidate or incumbent, prized for their expertise in particular fields Franklin D. Roosevelt The 32nd President of the United States A central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war Sinclair Lewis An American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright The first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Wagner Act A 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector that create labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands

Sit-Down Strike A form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at a factory or other centralized location, take possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations, effectively preventing their employers from replacing them with strikebreakers or, in some cases, moving production to other locations Frank Lloyd Wright An American architect, interior, writer and educator Designed more than 1,000 projects and more than 500 completed works Teapot Dome/Elk Hills Scandals Teapot Dome Scandal Albert Fall accused of accepting bribes for access to government oil in Teapot Dome, Wyoming; Elk Hills ScandalEdward Hopper A prominent American realist painter and printmaker His urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life Ernest Hemmingway An American writer and journalist His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was written in 1924 His distinctive writing styleknown as the iceberg theorycharacterized by economy and understatement, had an enormous influence on 20th-century fiction, as did his apparent life of adventure and the public image he cultivated Destroyer Deal Bank Holiday National Recovery Administration A New Deal agency in the United States Created under the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933, it was one of the first major pieces of the New Deal program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941-1960 Japanese Internment The forced relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor Greensboro Sit-ins An instrumental action in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in American history Julius and Ethel Rosenberg U-2 Incident An American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union The U.S. government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its remains (largely intact) and surviving pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Coming just over two weeks before the scheduled opening of an EastWest summit in Paris A great embarrassment to the United States Prompted a marked deterioration in its relations with the Soviet Union Marshall Plan The primary program, 194751, of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Western Europe Casablanca Conference Held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943 To plan the European strategy of the Allies during World War II Dumbarton Oaks Conference An international conference at which the United Nations was formulated and negotiated Alger Hiss An American lawyer, civil servant, businessman, author and lecturer Involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and UN official Accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950 Long Hot Summers

Henry Wallace The 33rd Vice President of the United States(19411945), the Secretary of Agriculture (19331940), and the Secretary of Commerce (19451946) In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party Baby Boomers A term that portrays the cohorts born during the middle part of the 20th Century Jack Kerouac On the Road An American novelist and poet Considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation, and a literary iconoclast On the Road is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences Little Rock School Crisis A group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower Considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement GI Bill of Rights An omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation Jackie Robinson The first African American Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era Korematsu v. U.S. A landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II Montgomery Bus Boycott A political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama Intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system McCarthyism The political action of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence Harry Truman The 33rd President of the United States Truman Doctrine The common name for the Cold War strategy of containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism Teheran Conference The first World War II conference amongst the Big Three (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom) in which Stalin was present The central aim of the conference was to plan the final strategy for the war against Nazi Germany and its allies, and the chief discussion was centered on the opening of a second front in Western Europe San Francisco Conference AKA United Nations Conference on International Organization A convention of delegates from 50 Allied nations that took place from 25 April 1945 to 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, United States Resulted in the creation of the United Nations Charter NSC 68 a 58-page formerly-classified report issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman Written during the formative stage of the Cold War, it has become one of the most significant historical documents of the Cold War The strategy outlined in NSC-68 achieved ultimate victory, according to this view, with the collapse of the Soviet power and the emergence of a "new world order" centered on American liberal-capitalist values Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer AKA The Steel Seizure Case A United States Supreme Court decision that limited the power of the President of the United States to seize private property in the absence of either specifically enumerated authority under Article Two of the United States Constitution or statutory authority conferred on him by Congress A "stinging rebuff" to President Harry Truman Douglas MacArthur An American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army Received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign Sputnik

A series of robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union Beat Generation A term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired Eisenhower Doctrine A country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state Servicemens Readjustment Act AKA G.I. Bill An omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation Provided many different types of loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses The term has come to include other veteran benefit programs created to assist veterans of subsequent wars as well as peacetime service New Frontier Used by John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him Federal Highway Act AKA National Interstate and Defense Highways Act Appropriating $25 billion for the construction of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of Interstate Highways over a 20-year period The largest public works project in American history to that point Employment Act of 1946 A United States federal law Main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability onto the federal government Brown v. Board of Education A landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students and denying black children equal educational opportunities unconstitutional Overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 Fair Deal A series of proposed actions in the fields of economic development and social welfare Containment A United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to temper the spread of communism, enhance Americas security and influence abroad, and prevent a "domino effect" Yalta Conference Wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectivelyfor the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization Intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe United Nations An international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace Founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue Berlin Airlift Carry supplies to the people in West Berlin Great Britain's Royal Air Force and the recently formed United States Air Force, flew over 200,000 flights over the time span of one year that provided 13,000 tons of daily necessities such as fuel and food to the people of Berlin George Kennan An American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War Korean War A military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union NATO AKA North Atlantic Treaty Organization Constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party Taft-Hartley Act A United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions National Defense Education Act Provided funding to United States education institutions at all levels

Ralph Bunche An American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine Dynamic Conservatism 1960-present Miranda v. Arizona A landmark 5-4 decision of the United States Supreme Court Held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police, and that the defendant not only understood these rights, but voluntarily waived them Huey Newton (Black Panthers) Co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, an African-American organization established to promote Black Power, civil rights and self-defense Jimmy Carter The 39th President of the United States Panama Canal Treaty, diplomacy with China, end of recognition of Taiwan Little accomplished domestically due to conservative opposition, foreigh policy more successful Washington outsider Washington Outsiders Bay of Pigs CIA attempt to institute Cuba support to overthrow Castro Cover0up uncovered and became representation of Cuban resistance to American aggression Economic Opportunity Act Implemented by the since disbanded Office of Economic Opportunity, the Act included several social programs to promote the health, education, and general welfare of the poor Malcolm X An African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist One of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history SALT I Treaty AKA Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Nixon agreed with USSR to achieve nuclear equality rather than the superiority that threatened the destruction of the world Further reduced tensions between the two countries Mayaguez Incident Marked the last official battle of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War Gerald Ford The 40th Vice President of the United States Helsinki Accords AKA The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Attempt to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West Reagonomics Capitalism would become productive when uninhibited by taxes and regulations Voting Rights Act 1965 Prohibiting use of any devices (such as literacy tests) to deny the right to vote and enforced black suffrage rights Rachel Carson Silent Spring Effects of pesticides on environment DDT Changed the way Americans viewed their impact on nature War Powers Act A United States Congress joint resolution providing that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if the United States is already under attack or serious threat Cuban Missile Crisis Storage of Soviet missiles in Cuba threat of nuclear war Krushchev demanded that U.S. never invade Cuba and remove from Turkey Mutual compliance with each others demands Stokely Carmichael (Black Power) A Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement

Rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "Snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party Vietnamization (Guam/Nixon Doctrine) Part of Nixons tri-faceted plan to honorably remove troops from Vietnam Wean the South Vietnamese off of American support, gradually reducing number of American troops present George Wallace Appealed to many conservatives, especially Southerners who opposed massive protests and integration Roe v. Wade Unconstitutionalized all state laws prohibiting womens right to have an abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy War on Poverty The name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964 Warren Commission AKA The Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Established to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22 Its 888-page final report was presented to President Johnson on September 24, 1964, and made public three days later Concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the killing of Kennedy and the wounding of Texas Governor John Connally Findings have since proven controversial and been both challenged and supported by later studies Hippies Originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s, swiftly spreading to other countries around the world Bakke v. Board of Regents Supply Side Economics Tax cuts to increase population spending help economy Drastic cutting back on government programs due to lack of funds Michael Harrington (The Other America) An American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founder of the Democratic Socialists of America Stagflation Fords and Carters presidencies experienced a recession and inflation simultaneously Solved by Keynesian economics Barry Goldwater a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election Credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s Ralph Nader Unsafe At Any Speed A book detailing resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety A pioneering work of attack journalism, openly polemical but containing substantial references and material from industry insiders Equal Rights Amendment A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which was intended to guarantee that equal rights under any federal, state, or local law could not be denied on account of sex John F. Kennedy Second youngest president Entered presidency as tensions of Cold War increased Unable to get major initiatives through Congress due to conservative bloc Tax cuts (economic stimulation) Reluctantly gets involved in civil rights Emphasizes Space Race Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Congress authorized President Johnson to repel and prevent aggression against U.S. troops in Vietnam Used as a blank check and caused protests Ronald Reagan The 40th President of the United States Offered a New Deal of smaller government, reduced taxes and free enterprise Washington outsider

Martin Luther King Jr. An American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement Gideon v. Wainwright Unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford their own attorneys Great Society President Johnsons flood of proposals to Congress for the beautification and amelioration of American Society Lee Harvey Oswald According to three government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy Camp David Accords Peace between Egypt and Israel Followed years of tension, Israel would leave newly acquired lands from war, Egypt would respect Israels other land claims Accords not completely followed, Sadat (Egypt) assassinated Affirmative Action Sets of programs geared toward minorities and often-discriminated populations Peace Corps 1961 An example of liberal anticommunism in third world countries Reform-minded missionaries of democracy Civil Rights Act 1964 Outlawed unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations") Lyndon Johnson President that dealt with the Vietnam War Great Society program for improvement of American society, antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs Kent State Kent State University students protesting against invasion of Cambodia Not allowed to demonstrate violence (ex. murder) Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique Denounced the house trap which caused educated women to hold even themselves inferior to men

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