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OPEC oil embargo, 1973
During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of OPEC imposed an oil embargo
against the US in retaliation for the US support for Israel. The price of oil in the US
tripled causing widespread economic hardship.
Jim Crow Laws
Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black
voting rights also supported segregation
19th Amendment (1920)
Gave women the right to vote
free enterprise system
an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods
Containment Policy
US policy to stop expansion of Communism
Iran-Contra Affair
scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the
Contras in Nicaragua even though Congress had objected
War Bonds/Victory Bonds
Sold by the government to raise money for the war effort.
unaleinable rights
rights that cannot be taken away
Patriot Act (2001)
Law responding to 9/11. Expands anti-terrorist powers (wiretapping, surveillance); 4th
Amendment concern for civil liberties.
FDR court packing
tried to add more Supreme Court justices to rule in his favor to keep New Deal running
and to increase the power of the executive branch
Berlin Airlift, 1948
Year-long mission of flying food and supplies to blockaded West Berliners, whom the
Soviet Union cut off from access to the West in the first major crisis of the Cold War.
Assimilation
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
US response to 9/11 attacks
War in Iraq and Afghanistan, creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the
Patriot Act
Sputnik (1957)
The first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit
by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. Caused the US to increase funding for math
and science
Martin Luther King Jr.
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination
against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass
demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize
(1964)
Malcolm X
OPEC oil embargo, 1973
During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of OPEC imposed an oil embargo
against the US in retaliation for the US support for Israel. The price of oil in the US
tripled causing widespread economic hardship.
Jim Crow Laws
Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black
voting rights also supported segregation
19th Amendment (1920)
Gave women the right to vote
free enterprise system
an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods
Containment Policy
US policy to stop expansion of Communism
Iran-Contra Affair
scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the
Contras in Nicaragua even though Congress had objected
War Bonds/Victory Bonds
Sold by the government to raise money for the war effort.
unaleinable rights
rights that cannot be taken away
Patriot Act (2001)
Law responding to 9/11. Expands anti-terrorist powers (wiretapping, surveillance); 4th
Amendment concern for civil liberties.
FDR court packing
tried to add more Supreme Court justices to rule in his favor to keep New Deal running
and to increase the power of the executive branch
Berlin Airlift, 1948
Year-long mission of flying food and supplies to blockaded West Berliners, whom the
Soviet Union cut off from access to the West in the first major crisis of the Cold War.
Assimilation
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
US response to 9/11 attacks
War in Iraq and Afghanistan, creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the
Patriot Act
Sputnik (1957)
The first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit
by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. Caused the US to increase funding for math
and science
Martin Luther King Jr.
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination
against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass
demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize
(1964)
Malcolm X
