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continue education, loans for homes
promoted better educated workforce, construction, and expansion -
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Check growing power of Labor unions
outlaw closed shoo
require workers to join a union after being hired
outlaw secondary boycotts
80 day "cooling off" period -
2 term limit
unless vice president and person dies then you have 2.5 -
Delegation of Authority
Former General
modern Republicanism
domino theory
military industrial complex -
separate but equal isn't possible
segregation in schools end with "all deliberate speed"
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshall -
Public segregation in buses
SCLC
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1956 Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional -
School desegregation
State national guard
Orval Faubus
sent federal troops to protect the black students -
young/inexperienced
peace corps
alliance for progress
charisma
Assasinated -
Keep East Germans from escaping (brain Drain)
symbol of cold war tensions -
marchers arrested
filled jails
Letter from a Birmingham Jail- argued for nonviolence, asked for white christian understanding
won over Kennedy -
Northern/white support
200000 marched
I have a Dream -
Vietnam War
Great society program -
Johnson
made segregation in all public facilities illegal
power to enforce
Equal employment opportunity commision -
Beginning of political goal
Mississippi voter registration
challenge rule of segregtion
white college students
freedom schools -
three activists were killed during freedom summer
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lawyer present during questioning
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in caseof loss of president, vice president becomes president
whenever there is a vaccancy in the office of the vice president, the president shall nominate a vice president who shall ke office under confirmation by a majority in congress -
martyr for civil rights
shot in memphis tennessee -
growing conservativism
imperial presidency
vietnamization
super suspicious
watergate -
end of space race
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lowered voting age to 18
if they can be drafted the should be able to vote -
humiliation of nixon
breaking into the democratic national headquarters
CREEP
plumbers
nixon resigns -
unconstitutional to projibit voluntry abortions
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VP Spiro Agnew resigns b/c tax evasion while MD governor
further discredited us govt -
pardons nixon`
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informal
intelligence and dedication
humanitarian
high inflation rates
blamed for all the problems -
President Anwar Sadat, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Carter
negotiated framework to peacesettlement
first step in peace in middle east -
Ayatolla Khomeini (religious leader) overthrows dictatorial ovt
militants seize Us embassy
symbol of carter's failed presidency
Released during reagan's first day -
USSR invades Afghanistan
US boycotts olympics
first politicial use of olympics -
Teflon President
Reagonomics
diffuse Cold War
Conservativism -
Reagan aides sold US antitnk and antiaircraft missiles to Iran to negotiate for hostage release
Another aide used profits to fund anti-communist contras in nicaragua -
End of cold war
recession
cuts in federal programs
Americans with disabilities act -
Iraq invaded kuwait
strengthened UN peacekeeping role -
prohibited members of congress from raising their own salaries
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Scandals and controversies
NAFTA
constant battle w/ conservative congress