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HIST 106 1st EditionFinal Exam Study Guide1) Alcatraza) Prison off the shore of San Francisco Bay. Occupied by Aboriginal people during the time of Indian revolution. They claimed the island under an earlier federal act that gave unoccupied federal land to Indians.2) “All Deliberate Speed”a) Supreme Court's order during Brown vs Board of Education that states act in this manner only to desegregate schools. This left a lot of room for states to do what they wanted, however they wanted, and in no timely manner.3) Alliance for Progress(a) US spent billions to promote economic growth in Latin America(b) The main push was for Cuban revolution of 19594) Bay of Pigs(1) Trained Cubans are captured immediately by Castro’s forces(2) Poor liked Castro, so invasion was not seen as beneficial to them(3) Huge disappointment for US and looks really bad on US5) Black Pantheri) Formed by Carmichael(a) Lowndes Country Freedom Organization(b) Number of black registered voters skyrockets ii) Formed to prevent police brutality in primarily black neighborhoodsiii) Protected blacks6) Camp David Accordsa) Peace accord signed by Egypt and Israel brought on by the US. Isreal agreed to return the Sinai to Egypt. 7) Cesar Chavezi) Caesar Chavez gets tired of braceros being hired to work for nothing(1) Start grass rooting boycotts(a) Grape boycott is the most successful in historyii) Chicano Movement(1) “El Movimiento”(2) Brown Baretts (a) Followed black panthers on smaller scale(b) Restored pride in mexicans8) Civil Rights Act of 1964i) Lead to by end of filibuster(1) Banned discrimination in privately run accommodations for publics(2) Authorized Attorney General to eliminate segregation in schools, hospitals, playgrounds, libraries, museums, and other public places(a) Would lost federal funding if not(3) Title VII- forbade discrimination in employment in regards to sex, race, color, religions, and national originii) Actually had enforcement power, unlike tries beforeiii) Did have resistance still in schools in south and housing in north iv) Little immediate impact on daily realities of civil rights activist9) Committee to Re-Elect the Presidenti) Americans rallied around LBJ to carry on JFK’s legacyii) LBJ and federal government had to be driving force behind social and economic progress10) Commonwealth of Independent Statesa) The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participatingcountries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union11) Desert Shielda) Stage of gulf war before Desert Storm. Originally intended to keep Iraq out of Kuwait. Made US and Russia diplomatic allies to oust Iraq. US gives till Jan 15 to remove troops, when Iraq doesn’t, became Desert Storm and all out military attack.12) Détentea) permanent relaxation in international affairs during the Cold War rather than just a temporary relaxation (the so-called "thaw"). 13) Domino Theorya) If one group fell in Asia, other countries would soon follow14) Double V Campaigna) Black power movement that wanted a victory over seas for democracy, as well as equal treatment on the home front for blacks.15) Ella Bakera) Started the Student nonviolent coordinating committee i) Felt students should keep away from adult actionsii) Most under 22 year oldsiii) Worked on voter registration campaigns as well16) Emmett Tilli) Visiting aunt and uncle in Mississippiii) Whistled at white woman on dareiii) Woman’s husband kidnaps, beats, mutilates, and kills Tilliv) Open casket funeral to “show world of the evil that had been done”17) Equal Rights Amendment(1) Introduced in every congressional session since 1923. Finally passed and sent to ratification by states in 1972(a) ¾ had to ratify by 1978 for it to go into effectb) Equal rights amendment18) Eugene McCarthya) Ran against Bobby Kennedy for the democratic presidential voteb) Was against the warc) When Bobby was assassinated he drops out of the race19) Evil Empirea) Term coined by Regan to describe the Soviets during the Cold War. i) Mikhail Gorbachev(1) Ended soviet role in conflict(2) Instituted new policies(a) Glasnost “openness”(b) Perestroika “restructuring” 20) George Wallacea) American Independent Party21) Glasnost and Perestroika(a) Glasnost “openness”b) Perestroika “restructuring”22) Great Societya) War on Povertyi) National poverty rate had risen again-19% of Americansii) Extended new deal programs that had expanded very little since introduction(1) Loans for small businesses(2) Funding for work study programs(3) Rural development(4) Food stamps(5) Office of economic opportunity- established community action programs (a) Head start, job corps, VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)iii) Had room to get programs passediv) LBJ announces even bigger program called Great Societyb) “Big Four”: Education, Medicare & Medicaid, Immigration, & Voting Rights Act of 1965i) Federal aid to public education- signed bill in one room school house he had attended in TX as kid(1) Dramatically increased federal funding of public educationii) Medicare(1) 1965- half of elderly had no insurance(2) With this, new programs were created that subsidized costs for older Americans(3) Aided 19 million based on age not incomeiii) Medicaid(1) Healthcare for disabled(2) Some people living below poverty line(3) Prior to, healthcare had been only for wealthyiv) Immigration reform(1) Got rid of national origin quotas from 1920’s (2) Law makers expected mostly Europeans, most immigrants came from Latin America and Asia thoughv) Voting Rights Act of 1965(1) Voting had been left out of civil rights act of 1964(2) In many deep south places, 90% of blacks still couldn’t vote(3) Extended federal power in south(a) Justice department could intervene to suspend discriminatory registration test(b) Could send federal registrar to take over local if being discriminatory (4) Within 1 year, percentage increases from 30% to 40% votingc) Started to unravel before liberals could celebratei) LBJ rushes through itii) No bipartisan for supportiii) Special Interestiv) “Oversell”-made big promises that he couldn’t keepv) Growing power of conservatismvi) Vietnam War- caused LBJ to forget agenda at home and robbed money to fund programs23) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution(1) Authorized LBJ to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US(2) Closest Us had come to declaring war24) Iran-Contra Scandal(1) Oliver


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