1. Archibald Cox
   1. Special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal. Nixon ordered Attorney General Richardson to fire Cox, but instead Richardson resigned. The same happened to Richardson's replacement. This illustrated the need for Independent Council
2. Bikini Island
   1. The sight of more than 20 nuclear tests in the 40's and 50's
   2. Bikini swimsuits were so "explosive" that they were named after the Island
   3. The largest nuclear explosion up until then was set off in 1954 was much larger than expected and created widespread nuclear fallout.
3. Black Panthers
   1. Militant African American organization created to promote black pride and self protection
   2. Founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
   3. Originally started to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality
   4. Large part of the civil rights movement
4. Civil Rights Act of 1964
   1. ended legal discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin and sex in federal programs, voting employment and public accommodation.
   2. Signed into law by Johnson
5. Compromise of 1877
   1. The unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 election
   2. Rutherford B. Hayes got the presidency
   3. Hayes had to remove the federal troops from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina
   4. Resulted in many Republicans leaving the party and becoming part of the Redeemer Democrats
6. Daniel Ellsburg
   1. Former Us Military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and other papers
   2. The pentagon papers entailed the US governments decision making process for the Vietnam War
7. Emilio Aguinaldo
   1. General and politician who played intsrumental role in the Phillipine-American War
   2. Considered the first and youngest president of the Phillipines
   3. Eventually pledged his allegiance to the US
8. Ethel Rosenberg
   1. Jewish American Communists who were put to death for conspiracy to commit espionage.
   2. There was no proof that ethel was a part of her husband, Julius', espionage
9. Fourteenth Amendment
   1. One of the Reconstruction Amendments
   2. Provided equal protection under the law to all people
   3. Overruled Dred V. Scott
   4. Used to dismantle segregation
10. Geneva Accords
    1. The conference between many countries that agreed to end the hostilities and restore peace in French Indochina and Vietnam.
    2. Not signed by the US, so we were not legally bound by them
    3. Resulted in the Second Indochina war, better known as the Vietnam (to americans) or the American (to the Vietnamese) War
11. George Kennan
    1. "The Father of Containment"
    2. Key Figure in the Emergence of the Cold War