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Who drove the kennedys to be president

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Joe Kennedy (father)

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JFK war hero resume

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he did PT 109 ship and it blew up and he got good publicity on that

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JFK political backround

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Massachusetts senator

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4
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Who ran in election of 1960

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JFK and Johnston, Nixon and Lodge

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First ever TV debate

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Nixion had a weird outfit on and it made him lose votes.

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Who won the Black vote of the south

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JFK

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Election map of 1960

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Mississippi and half of Alabama are independent

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What role did Robert Kennedy hold

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Attorney General

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What weird cabinet member was brought on and why

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Robert McNamara Sect of Defense was 44 and a Republican to show bipartisan support

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What was created due to the increase of government spending on cold war

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  • creates elite special forces
  • Green Berets
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11
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When was the Berlin wall put up

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1961

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12
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When did Fidel Castro take power

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1959

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13
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What happens to the population of Cuba as Fidel rose to power

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10 percent flee to Cuba

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14
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What happened in the bay of pigs

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CIA had trained Cuban exiles to fight and in 1961 the US Navy landed in Cuba and they were slaughtered

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Why did JFK support Bay of pigs

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Eisenhower created it and if he didnt support it then he would look soft on communism

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16
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When did USSR put nukes in cuba

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1962

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17
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What was the result of the Cuban missile crisis

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Kennedy ordered them to be removed so they were but we took out missiles in turkey

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18
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Who is Diem

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Corrupt south vietnam leader

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19
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What happened to diem

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we put in place a coup to kill him in 1963

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20
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Who were the southern communist in vietnam

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viet cong

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21
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JFK involvement in Vietnam

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sent 1000 millitary personal

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22
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What was JFK domestic policy called

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New Frontier

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23
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JFK on economy

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increased min wadge but cut taxes

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24
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What foreign help was signed by JFK

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Peace corp that took american skills to developing counties

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JFK on civil right

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supported it for votes yet nothing passed congress

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26
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Who killed Kennedy

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Lee Harvey Oswald and then Jack Ruby killed him

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27
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How did Johnston politically come to power

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pretended to be middle of the road whilst being very liberal

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28
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First Johnston Act

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War on poverty; Economic Opportunity Act Of 1964

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29
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Job Corps

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Federally funded to teach high schoolers trade skills

30
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VISTA

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domestic peace corp

31
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Project Head Start

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aid underprilleged pre schoolers

32
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Civil Rights act when passed?

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1964 through guilt trip of Johnston

33
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1964 election people

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Barry Goldwater and Lyndon B Johnston

34
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Barrry Goldwater Political

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Ultra conservative; wanted to be a very large gap between republicans and democrats

35
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What did Barry Goldwater go after

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Federal income taz, social security system, TVA and Civil rights Legislation

36
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Barry Goldwaters campaign thing

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in your heart he knows hes right

37
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Political map 1964

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Flip and deep south is Republican

38
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Book that exposed poverty line + author

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The other America Micheal Harrington

39
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gave 1 bil in aid to help public schools

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elementary and secondary act

40
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EEOC

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equal employment opportunity commission

41
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Medicare act

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1965 hospital insurance and low cost health insurance for almost all Americans over 65 and Medicaid gave to all on welfare

42
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formed to administer federal housing programs

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1965 Dept of Housing and Urban Development

43
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set up public television

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1967 Corporation for Public Broadcasting set up public television and radio

44
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ended quotas based on nationality which allowed many non Europeans to enter US

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the immigration act of 1965

45
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set emission standards for new cars

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Clean Air Act of 1965

46
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was est to deal with air rail and highway travel

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Dep of Transportation 1966

47
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set new standards for labeling consumer products

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Truth in Packaging Act 1966

48
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all suspects must be read their rights before questioning

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Miranda decisions

49
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Who ran in 1968

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LBJ did not run; Nixon and Humphrey and George Wallace

50
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Democrat nomminee in 1968

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Hubert Humprey ran yet Robert Kennedy should have one but he died

51
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Who was the third party candidate in 1968

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George Wallace because no southern candidate

52
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1968 election mapo

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Alabama and Mississippi are independent

53
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Civil rights act

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1964; Prohibited Segregation of all public places and discrimination

54
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Freedom summer

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1964 in order to increase black voting in Mississippi

55
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Selma march

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pushed congress to pass voting rights act

56
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voting rights act of 1965

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banned literacy test`

57
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Black Power

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  • Believed economic and political equality
  • violence for self defense was acceptable
  • separatism not integration
58
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Nation of Islam

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want their own state; Malcom x wanted to seperate

59
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Malcolm x

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  • Muslim black leader
  • preached violence and separatism
60
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Malcom x trip to mecca

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changed his views

61
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Types of Discrimination in South

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  • South had De jure discrimination
    • legal discrimination
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types of Discrimination in north

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  • North had De facto discrimination
    • more difficult to prove and fight
63
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Why did the riots happen in the north

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wanted to see more progress in the north

64
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Riot examples

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  • 1965 Watts Riot
    • felt like no economic equality
  • Newark NJ riots
  • Detroit MI
65
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Who took over the SNCCC

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H Rap brown, turned it violent

66
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Black Panthers

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  • Oakland California
  • heavily armed
  • Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
67
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Where did the hippy movements come in

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became out of free speech movement in Berkeley

68
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Birthplace of hippies

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San francisco, Haight Ashbury

69
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Where was hippies festivals

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Golden gate park, “be ins”

70
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Woodstock

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massive amount of people; seperation between who went and not

71
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Timothy Leary

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advocate of LSD

72
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Famous hippie book

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Electric coolaid acid test, Tom Wolfe

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