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a strike made in California by Latinos who worked in the farm, receiving low wages for backbreaking labor
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this women's right organization fought gender discrimination in the workplace, schools, and justice system. it also worked to end violence against women and to achieve abortion rights.
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the highlight of the hippie movement was known as the summer of love. hippies professed peace, love, and harmony
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the most militant organization in the Chicano movement. they protest against police brutality and fought for bilingual education.
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leader of the national farmworkers strike partnered with Dolores Huerta. the success of the strike made Chavez a national figure, respected for his tireless support of migrant workers and his commitment to nonviolent protest.
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organization founded by native American leaders calling for a renewal of native American culture and recognition of native Americans' rights
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a flight made a successful liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with three astronauts.
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women began to question why they were still considered unequal. the core belief of the women's movement was feminism. they believed women and men should be socially, politically, and economically equal.
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counterculture movement during the 1960s in which students used he tactics of civil disobedience to protest injustices
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the refusal of Arab nations to ship oil from its ports. one of the effects of war.
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an agreement to a five year slowdown in building new offensive weapons.
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supreme court decision that made abortion legal in the united states
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the arab countries were part of a group called the organization of petroleum exporting countries. the united states depended on the opec oil
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a political scandal that resulted in president Nixon's resignation
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republican leader in the house of representatives who became president after Nixon's resign
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Nixon saw his support in congress was thin, he must have known that the tapes would reveal clear evidence of hi own wrongdoing. he spoke to the American people and for the first time in American history a president resigned from office
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this treaty called for limits on certain kinds of nuclear weapons
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agreement between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin; President Carter mediated the process at Camp David
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a theory based on tax cuts and business incentives stimulate investment. investment encourages economic growth.
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a new pro-Soviet Afghan government was formed but was not stable. when it showed signs of it crumbling, the soviets invaded. their goal was to ensure continued communist rule in Afghanistan
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a revolution in Iran had led to the overthrow of that country's long-time ruler, known as the shah. the shah had long enjoyed American support. after his overthrow, iran came under the control of an Islamic religious leader. this leader was a strong anti-American preacher. mobs attacked American embassies in iran.
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this promised equal treatment for men and women in all spheres, not just employment. it failed to become law by three states short
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president Reagan's proposed defensive space shield that would knock out incoming soviet missiles
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a visionary new leader in power for the soviets who believed that the only way to salvage the soviet economy was to strike a deal with America
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unfolded when members of the national security council staff secretly diverted money from the illegal iran arms sales to the contras in Nicaragua.
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ordered the destruction of a whole class of weapons. more than 2,500 missiles, many of which faced each other in Europe.
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a large pro-democracy protest in China that resulted in the government using military force, killing hundreds of unarmed people including children.
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the call for glasnost and perestroika awakened hopes for freedom throughout the soviet empire. a spirit of nationalism, long repressed and feared by soviet authorities, rose in the subject nations of eastern Europe.
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hoping to calm rising protests, the east German government flung open the gates of he wall. they pulled down the razor wire, and climbed atop the wall, and danced on it. with axes and sledgehammers and their bare hands, they spontaneously began ripping down the wall.
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a conventional war. but it was unlike any war before. the harsh desert terrain and long distances between targets made high technology airpower the most effective military tool.
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new experiences sought by hippies such as, Buddhism, astrology, drugs like acid and marijuana, and dressed in casual and colorful clothing.
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the ruthless dictator of Iraq invaded the neighboring country of Kuwait. the attack on the tiny, oil-rich kingdom shocked the united states and other western countries. concerns rose further when reports surfaced of atrocities by Iraqi troops against Kuwaiti civilians.