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JFK/LBJ Flashcards

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Music of 1960s

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Beach Boys (harmony) & Bob Dylan (protest songs)

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Voices of 1960

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JFK, LBJ, Muhammad Ali

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Woodstock

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music festival at Max Yusgur’s farm known for sex, drugs, & rock & roll, featured Jimmy Hendricks and more

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new products

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electric toothbrush, pop tarts, easy bake oven

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religion

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Zen Buddhism, communal living from hippies

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counterculture

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make love not war, hippies begin in CA & NY

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Yuri Gagarin

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1st man in space, Vostok 1, USSR

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Neil Armstrong

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Apollo 11, first man to step on moon

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Buzz Aldrin

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Apollo 11

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Michael Collins

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Apollo 11

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Charles DeGaulle

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leader of France, left NATO

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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slogan was “for the future” in 1960 election when running with Nixon

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Gerald Ford

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investigated death of JFK (Warren Commission)

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Richard Nixon

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republican candidate against JFK in 1960 election

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Nikita Khrushchev

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leader of USSR

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Timothy Leary

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experimented with LSD

17
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Lyndon B Johnson

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president after JFK death, slogan w JFK= “New Frontier”

18
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JFK

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went to Harvard, served as a congressman & a senator, in fed govt for 14yrs, Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs, Peace Corp

19
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Jack Ruby

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shot Oswald

20
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Lee Harvey Oswald

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arrested for JFK’s assassination

21
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John Connolly

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Texas governor who was in car when JFK was assassinated

22
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Robert Kennedy

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23
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Early Warren

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Supreme Court justice

24
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1960 election

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republican: Nixon w/ Henry Cabot Lodge, slogan- “For the future”
democrat: JFK w/ LBJ, slogan- “new frontier”

25
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VISTA

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LBJ’s answer to war on poverty

26
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Peace Corps

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JFK, to help underdeveloped countries

27
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Grand Design

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draw to NATO, trade expansion act, GB admitted to common market

28
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Blizzard of Laws, name 2

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Medicare, clean air

29
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“Paper Tiger”

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China’s name for USSR after they split

30
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NATO

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JFK planned to bring closer together using grand design, moved to Brussels, Belgium

31
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Alliance for Progress

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1961 foreign policy, economic cooperation, North & South America

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