Chapter 37 Vocab

AP American History with Saunders at Fremont High School

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Betty Friedan

Leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States.

HI= The author of the feminine mysique.

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Billy Graham

Southern Baptist who preached to people over television.

HI= Has preached to more people than any other living person.

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Ho chi Minh

Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary leader who led communist revolts within that country.

HI= Set a chain of events in motion that triggered the Vietnam war.

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Cult of domesticity

School of thought prevalent among women that believed that women were subservient to men and that they should be virtous.

HI= Saw an upswing in the 60's and 70's.

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McCarthyism

Practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.

HI= Named after Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who was responsible for the 2nd red scare.

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Sit-ins

Lunch-counter sit-in for the purpose of integrating segregated establishments. began in July 1958.

HI= Caused many southern restaurants to intrgrate.

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Massive retaliation

Military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.

HI= policy followed by the US in case the soviets ever attacked.

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Spirit of camp david

Documents signed by Egypt and Israel recognizing Israel as a nation.

HI= Major foreign policy of Carter's presidency.

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Feminine mystique

Book written by Betty Friedan that introduces a concept of rejecting the cult of domesticity.

HI= Regarded as on of the most definitive manifestos of feminist thought.

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Telvangelists

A Christian minister who devotes a large portion of his ministry to television broadcasting.

HI= Became a popular method of spreading the christian faith throughout the 'bible belt'.

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Checkers speech

Address made by Richard Nixon, the junior United States Senator from California and Republican vice presidential candidate, on television and radio.

HI= Denied claimes that Nixon was misusing funds appropriated for him by the RNC.

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Army-McCarthy hearings

A series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954.

HI= Sen. McCarthy accused select members of the army of participating in communist activities

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Brown v. Board of education

Landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

HI= Overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson Case.

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Montgomery bus boycott

Political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.

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Dienbienphu

Battle between French and Vietnamese Communist Revolutionaries in 1954.

HI= Served as a preamble to the Vietnam war.

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Suez Crisis

Conflict that followed the U.S.'s offer to fund the Aswan dam.

HI= Caused an armed conflict between the Egyptians and the Israeli's.

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Eisenhower Doctrine

Under the 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.

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Landrum-Griffith act

United States labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers.

HI= Changed the way unions were allowed to operate.

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U-2 incident

United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace, causing US-Soviet relations to deteriorate.

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Twenty-second amendment

Places term limits on the presidential office.

HI= A president can only serve 2 terms.

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National Defense Education Act

Act that increased the amount of math and sciences that american students learned.

HI= was influenced by the launching of Sputnik and the Space Race.

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St. Lawrence seaway

System of locks, canals and channels that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the North American Great Lakes, as far as Lake Superior.

HI= Allowed ships to enter Great lakes from Atlantic ocean.

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Sputnik

Satellite launched by Russia in 1957.

HI= Kicked off the space race.

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