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| reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms on issues such as gay rights, abortion, gender roles, and drugs. |
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| is the 1962 manifesto of the North American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). brought up issues of race |
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| was a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. |
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| were a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.0 |
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| It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969 |
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| 1964, It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres of federal land. |
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| Passed in 1972, is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment, and maintaining the integrity of wetlands |
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| was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that ruled it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. |
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| was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which passed 5–4 in 1966. by making what became known as the Miranda rights part of routine police procedure to ensure that suspects were informed of their rights. |
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| was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. |
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| aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy |
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| that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, in 1973 |
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| was a United States Supreme Court decision on July 3, 1989 upholding a Missouri law that imposed restrictions on the use of state funds, facilities, and employees in performing, assisting with, or counseling on abortions. |
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| is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s |
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| is a non-profit women's rights organization that was founded in 1974. is a legal organization dedicated to protecting and expanding economic and educational access and opportunities for women and girls. |
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| is a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the National Farm Workers Association,that helped workers get unemployment insurance but rapidly became a union of farmworkers. |
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| was the first president of South Vietnam (1955–1963)began building a right-wing dictatorship in South Vietnam. |
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| aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. |
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| occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis |
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| was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office. |
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| what Nixon referred to as what the nation needed to get back to |
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| was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration. Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed money laundering and slush funds and was directly and actively involved in the Watergate scandal. |
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| was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and prior to this, was the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. |
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| is the policy of providing special opportunities for, and favoring members of, a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination |
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| is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. |
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| was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end the U.S.' involvement in the war and "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops" |
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| She is known for her staunch social and political conservatism, her opposition to modern feminism and for her campaign against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. |
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| was a set of domestic programs in the United States first announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University, then at University of Michigan, and subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. |
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| was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side |
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| is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. |
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| intended “to strengthen the educational resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in postsecondary and higher education.” |
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| refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United States and United Kingdom and spread throughout much of the Western world between the early 1960s and the early 1970s |
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| best for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights and radical intellectual counterculture activist, |
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| subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. |
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| is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, and, in some communes, work and income. |
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| is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962 documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. |
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| is one of the dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s. Signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction |
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| is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. |
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| a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In it the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys. |
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| was a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African/Black descent |
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| combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth-control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a birth control method that includes a combination of an estrogen (estradiol) and a progestogen (progestin). |
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| was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. |
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| Planned Parenthood v Casey: |
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| was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the constitutionality of several Pennsylvania state regulations regarding abortion were challenged. |
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| is an American liberal feminist magazine co-founded by second-wave feminist and sociopolitical activist Gloria Steinem and founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin. |
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| were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. |
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| Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation’s highest ever rate of home ownership. |
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| is the name given to two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron |
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| is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 |
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| was a businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election. |
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| was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. |
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| were a covert White House Special Investigations Unit, established July 24, 1971, during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information, such as the Pentagon Papers, to the news media. |
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| is an influential essay by American author Tom Wolfe, in which Wolfe coins the phrase "'Me' Decade", a term that became common as a descriptor for the decade of the 1970s. |
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| dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school students across district lines among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit. It concerned the plans to integrate public schools in the United States in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education |
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| were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations at Camp David.[ |
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| New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various policies or groups that are right-wing. |
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| was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right. It was founded in 1979 and dissolved in the late 1980s. |
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| He is one of only four people[1] who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President. |
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| is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government. Although its beginnings were in the House and Home Financing Agency, it was founded as a Cabinet department in 1965, as part of the "Great Society" program of President Lyndon Johnson, |
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| medicare takes care of the old Medicaid takes care of the poor |
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| Students for a Democratic Society, was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. |
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| was an American political activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. |
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| was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. |
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| It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word "psychedelic" to suburbia. |
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| was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. |
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| is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health. |
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| was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that retreated from the Court's political question doctrine, deciding that redistricting |
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| landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. |
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| was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement |
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| 1st special assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs under Lyndon johnson |
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| is a 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States |
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| refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment, and sexual violence, all of which fall under the label of feminism. |
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| No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. |
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| was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association |
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| was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). |
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| was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against the forces of South Vietnam, |
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| is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs. |
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| was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. |
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| may develop after a person is exposed to one or more traumatic events, such as sexual assault, serious injury, or the threat of death. |
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| was an American actor and politician. He was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989). Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California |
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| is an American diplomat and political scientist. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Le Duc Tho, who refused the prize), he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After |
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| is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post in 1972 about the involvement of United States President Richard Nixon's administration in watergate |
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| is a theorized condition in which discrimination against a dominant racial group in a society has taken place. |
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| case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools. |
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| was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963. |
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| as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. The phrase developed into a label for his administration's domestic and foreign programs. JFK |
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| was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to oppose the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War. |
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| is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba |
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| of 1962 authorized a three-year program aimed at retraining workers displaced by new technology. The bill did not exclude employed workers from benefiting and it authorized a training allowance for unemployed participants. |
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| abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act. |
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