1960s Flashcards
Who drove the kennedys to be president
Joe Kennedy (father)
JFK war hero resume
he did PT 109 ship and it blew up and he got good publicity on that
JFK political backround
Massachusetts senator
Who ran in election of 1960
JFK and Johnston, Nixon and Lodge
First ever TV debate
Nixion had a weird outfit on and it made him lose votes.
Who won the Black vote of the south
JFK
Election map of 1960
Mississippi and half of Alabama are independent
What role did Robert Kennedy hold
Attorney General
What weird cabinet member was brought on and why
Robert McNamara Sect of Defense was 44 and a Republican to show bipartisan support
What was created due to the increase of government spending on cold war
- creates elite special forces
- Green Berets
When was the Berlin wall put up
1961
When did Fidel Castro take power
1959
What happens to the population of Cuba as Fidel rose to power
10 percent flee to Cuba
What happened in the bay of pigs
CIA had trained Cuban exiles to fight and in 1961 the US Navy landed in Cuba and they were slaughtered
Why did JFK support Bay of pigs
Eisenhower created it and if he didnt support it then he would look soft on communism
When did USSR put nukes in cuba
1962
What was the result of the Cuban missile crisis
Kennedy ordered them to be removed so they were but we took out missiles in turkey
Who is Diem
Corrupt south vietnam leader
What happened to diem
we put in place a coup to kill him in 1963
Who were the southern communist in vietnam
viet cong
JFK involvement in Vietnam
sent 1000 millitary personal
What was JFK domestic policy called
New Frontier
JFK on economy
increased min wadge but cut taxes
What foreign help was signed by JFK
Peace corp that took american skills to developing counties
JFK on civil right
supported it for votes yet nothing passed congress
Who killed Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald and then Jack Ruby killed him
How did Johnston politically come to power
pretended to be middle of the road whilst being very liberal
First Johnston Act
War on poverty; Economic Opportunity Act Of 1964
Job Corps
Federally funded to teach high schoolers trade skills
VISTA
domestic peace corp
Project Head Start
aid underprilleged pre schoolers
Civil Rights act when passed?
1964 through guilt trip of Johnston
1964 election people
Barry Goldwater and Lyndon B Johnston
Barrry Goldwater Political
Ultra conservative; wanted to be a very large gap between republicans and democrats
What did Barry Goldwater go after
Federal income taz, social security system, TVA and Civil rights Legislation
Barry Goldwaters campaign thing
in your heart he knows hes right
Political map 1964
Flip and deep south is Republican
Book that exposed poverty line + author
The other America Micheal Harrington
gave 1 bil in aid to help public schools
elementary and secondary act
EEOC
equal employment opportunity commission
Medicare act
1965 hospital insurance and low cost health insurance for almost all Americans over 65 and Medicaid gave to all on welfare
formed to administer federal housing programs
1965 Dept of Housing and Urban Development
set up public television
1967 Corporation for Public Broadcasting set up public television and radio
ended quotas based on nationality which allowed many non Europeans to enter US
the immigration act of 1965
set emission standards for new cars
Clean Air Act of 1965
was est to deal with air rail and highway travel
Dep of Transportation 1966
set new standards for labeling consumer products
Truth in Packaging Act 1966
all suspects must be read their rights before questioning
Miranda decisions
Who ran in 1968
LBJ did not run; Nixon and Humphrey and George Wallace
Democrat nomminee in 1968
Hubert Humprey ran yet Robert Kennedy should have one but he died
Who was the third party candidate in 1968
George Wallace because no southern candidate
1968 election mapo
Alabama and Mississippi are independent
Civil rights act
1964; Prohibited Segregation of all public places and discrimination
Freedom summer
1964 in order to increase black voting in Mississippi
Selma march
pushed congress to pass voting rights act
voting rights act of 1965
banned literacy test`
Black Power
- Believed economic and political equality
- violence for self defense was acceptable
- separatism not integration
Nation of Islam
want their own state; Malcom x wanted to seperate
Malcolm x
- Muslim black leader
- preached violence and separatism
Malcom x trip to mecca
changed his views
Types of Discrimination in South
- South had De jure discrimination
- legal discrimination
types of Discrimination in north
- North had De facto discrimination
- more difficult to prove and fight
Why did the riots happen in the north
wanted to see more progress in the north
Riot examples
- 1965 Watts Riot
- felt like no economic equality
- Newark NJ riots
- Detroit MI
Who took over the SNCCC
H Rap brown, turned it violent
Black Panthers
- Oakland California
- heavily armed
- Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
Where did the hippy movements come in
became out of free speech movement in Berkeley
Birthplace of hippies
San francisco, Haight Ashbury
Where was hippies festivals
Golden gate park, “be ins”
Woodstock
massive amount of people; seperation between who went and not
Timothy Leary
advocate of LSD
Famous hippie book
Electric coolaid acid test, Tom Wolfe
