America In An Era Of Turmoil Flashcards
Great Society
Overreaching plan by LBJ to assist the underprivileged in American society
Included est. of the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs and the Head Start (aided disadvantaged preschoolers) and Medicare programs
Some programs were reduced due to the cost of the Vietnam war
Est. the VISTA program of organized volunteers to work in the poorest communities in the US
New Frontier
Group of domestic policies proposed by JFK
Included Medicare and aid to education and urban renewal
Many of these policies were not enacted until LBJ became president
Advocated by Michael Harrington’s The Other America
Black power
Philosophy of some younger blacks in the 1960s who were impatient with the slow pace of desegregation
Led by Stokely Carmichael and SNCC
It’s advocates believed that blacks should create and control their own political and cultural institutions rather than seeking integration into white-dominated society
Most visible (radical) supporters: Black Panthers est. by Bobby Seal and Huey Newton in San Fran.
Roe vs. Wade
Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal (with some restrictions)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congressional resolution following the reports the US Navy ships were fired on by the north Vietnamese off the Vietnam coast
*basically gave the president the power to control the Vietnam war without Congress’s approval
Many historian doubt that any attack of US ships ever took place
Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS)
Radical activist student organization created in 1960
Mad that more and more young people were being deployed to Vietnam
Advocate more democratic, participatory society
Opposed the Vietnam war
Counterculture
A movement by young people in the 1960s Rejected political involvement Emphasized the need for personal instead of political revolution Long hair Drug experimentation Unconventional living Ex. Woodstock Music Festival
Kent State University
Campus in OH where 4 students who were part of a protest against the invasion of Cambodia were shot and killed by national guardsmen
JFK
Youngest and first catholic president
Best Nixon
Perfect for tv
Est. the New Frontier, the Peace Corps
Launched massive space program to compete with USSR
Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald which was investigated by the Warren Commission
Freedom Riders
Perseverance over discrimination and abuse inspired civil rights movements
Revealed how big of an impact tv would be on the future social movements
March on Washington
MLK’s “I have a dream” speech in front of the Lincoln memorial
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Stated that the same standards had to be used to register white and black voters, racial discrimination could not be considered in hiring employees
Made discrimination illegal in public locations
Led to the Voting Rights Act that forbade literacy tests for suffrage
Caused violent attack on protesters in Selma, AL
Kerner commission
Authorized to investigate the cause of civil rights riots
Blamed it on black poverty and lack of hope in black urban communities
Black nationalism
Preached by Malcolm X
Radical movement for black self-improvement
Based on the Nation of Islam (but Malcolm X later rejected it and was assassinated by Islamic extremists)
NOW
National Organization for Women
Est. by Betty Friedan
Dedicate to equal pat for women and ending submissive stereotypes
