Give Me Liberty Chapter 26 Vocab
Affirmative Action - answeran action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from
discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
Busing - answertransport in a communal road vehicle.
"Reverse discrimination" - answ...
Affirmative Action - answer✔an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from
discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
Busing - answer✔transport in a communal road vehicle.
"Reverse discrimination" - answer✔Claims that, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendments
equal protection clause, minorities were granted special advantages over whites.
a.k.a. does not exist!!!
Title IX - answer✔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
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - answer✔Agreements which froze each country's arsenal of
intercontinental missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. brought about a sense of ease
between the countries and international threats decreased
détente - answer✔Nixon and Brezhnev proclaimed a new era of peaceful coexistence, in which
détente (cooperation) would replace the hostility of the Cold War. brings a wave of international
peace not reached for many years
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