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Chapter 38 - The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968 Flashcards

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John F. Kennedy

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the 35th president of the United States

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Jacqueline Kennedy

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Wife of John Kennedy

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Bobby Kennedy

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The attorney general also JFK’s younger brother

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J. Edgar Hoover

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Director of the FBI Who resisted “bobby’s” reform

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Robert McNamara

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Business wiz who left Ford to head the Defense department.

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Peace Corps

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proposed by Kennedy to use volunteering young people to bring American skills to underdeveloped countries

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Berlin Wall

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wall separating east and west Berlin created by the soviet union.

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Common Market

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Free trade area that later became the European Union

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Trade Expansion Act

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initiated tariff cuts of up to 50% to promote trade with the common market

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Charles de Gaulle

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President of France who vetoed the british application to the common Market and developed a french Nuclear program

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Laos

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country let loose by the french that underwent a civil war involving Communism

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Flexible Response

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Military options that could be matched to the gravity of the situation i.e. The Green Berets

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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The corrupt right wing government in vietnam

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Viet Cong

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Guerrilla group during the Vietnam War

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Alliance for Progress

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Alliance with latin American countries that was built to create a stronger middle class in the countries.

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Fidel Castro

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Communist dictator of Cuba

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Bay of Pigs

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Plan using exiles from cuba to topple Fidel Castro that failed.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Soviets used cuba as a Nuclear storing ground that lead to a fierce standoff between the two countries who threatened each other with missile attacks for a week.

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Nikita Khrushchev -

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The soviet leader During the cold war who was unpersoned

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Quarantine

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The Blocking Of cuba from any supplies to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Hot Line

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permitted immediate teletype communications in a time of crisis.

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Freedom Riders

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People who toured the south in a bus to protest discrimination and civil violence

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Martin Luther King Jr

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revered leader during the Civil rights movement

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SNCC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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James Meredith

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Student who was violently opposed when he applied to Ole Miss

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Birmingham

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The most segregated city that existed in America

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March on Washington

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Civil rights protest march lead by Martin Luther King jr.

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“I Have a Dream”

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Famous speech given by MLK jr. during the March on washington.

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Medgar Evers -

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black mississippi worker who was killed after the march on washington

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Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Vice President who took over after Kennedy’s assassination.

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The Johnson Treatment

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LBJ’s ability to seemingly switch political parties whenever it was needed.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Act that banned racial discrimination in most private facilities open to the public.

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Affirmative Action

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executive order requiring all federal contractors to fight discrimination

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War on Poverty

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Tax bill that was sent through congress by LBJ

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Great Society

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A New deal like program that was created by LBJ That aimed at transforming the Americans way of life.

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The Other America

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Book that laid out how bad poverty was especially in the black communities.

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Barry Goldwater

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Republican Candidate who battled LBJ for the Presidency

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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plan to launch a limited military air raid against vietnam after an attack

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Department of Housing and Urban Development

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two new cabinet offices added by LBJ

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Medicare

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health care for the elderly

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Medicaid

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Health Care for the impoverished

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Entitlements

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rights in certain categories that don’t need congressional re-approval

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Immigration and Nationality Act

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abolished the national origins quotas system and doubled the amount of immigrants that were allowed to come into the country

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Head Start

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program designed to better educate the impoverished youth.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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outlawed literacy tests and sent registers to many southern states

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The Twenty-fourth Amendment

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abolished poll taxes on federal elections

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Freedom Summer

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massive voter registration drive in Mississippi

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -

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group that attempted to get a seat but was denied one at the national democratic convention

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Selma

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city in Alabama where only one percent of the blacks were registered to vote en though they were equally populated to white people

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Watts

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black ghetto in Los Angeles

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Malcolm X

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leader in the civil rights movement who used more violent tactics

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Elijah Muhammed

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Leader of the Black nationalist in the Nation of Islam who preached separatism

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Black Panthers

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violent group of civil rights activists.

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Stokely Carmichael

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Leader of the SNCC

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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Regular full scale bombing runs against northern vietnam

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Guerrilla Warfare

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type of combat that involved using your surroundings and ambushes to achieve victory

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Six-Day War

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war between the soviet controlled egypt and Israel that Israel won in sixty days.

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Teach-ins

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general discussion based on political fairs first held at (x)ichigan University about the Vietnam war draft

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William Fulbright

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senator that staged televised hearings discrediting the war

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Credibility Gap

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The lack of credibility coming from the government to it’s people

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Cointelpro

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FBI counterintelligence program

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Tet Offensive

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Attack that we won but gave the Viet cong a political victory as it showed that this force would not work

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Eugene McCarthy

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-American Politician and poet who served in the House of representatives who lead anti war students as campaigners

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Hubert Humphrey

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LBJ”S appointed “heir” for the democratic nomination.

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Democratic Convention

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convention of the democratic party during the election period

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Richard Nixon

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Republican candidate that took advantage of the divided democrats and secured the presidency

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George Wallace

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Alabama governor who supported segregation forever.

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Berkeley

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Activist from the college had clean cut and sober minded sit ins

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Sexual Revolution

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with the introduction of birth control many people began to appease their sexual appetites than they had before as well as the rise of LGBT rights

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Stonewall Inn

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Brutal attack from police officers on Gay men

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Students for a Democratic Society

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Student group that was at the forefront of anti war and poverty

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LSD

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drug that many students tried during the sixties.

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