JFK/LBJ Flashcards
Music of 1960s
Beach Boys (harmony) & Bob Dylan (protest songs)
Voices of 1960
JFK, LBJ, Muhammad Ali
Woodstock
music festival at Max Yusgur’s farm known for sex, drugs, & rock & roll, featured Jimmy Hendricks and more
new products
electric toothbrush, pop tarts, easy bake oven
religion
Zen Buddhism, communal living from hippies
counterculture
make love not war, hippies begin in CA & NY
Yuri Gagarin
1st man in space, Vostok 1, USSR
Neil Armstrong
Apollo 11, first man to step on moon
Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 11
Michael Collins
Apollo 11
Charles DeGaulle
leader of France, left NATO
Henry Cabot Lodge
slogan was “for the future” in 1960 election when running with Nixon
Gerald Ford
investigated death of JFK (Warren Commission)
Richard Nixon
republican candidate against JFK in 1960 election
Nikita Khrushchev
leader of USSR
Timothy Leary
experimented with LSD
Lyndon B Johnson
president after JFK death, slogan w JFK= “New Frontier”
JFK
went to Harvard, served as a congressman & a senator, in fed govt for 14yrs, Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs, Peace Corp
Jack Ruby
shot Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
arrested for JFK’s assassination
John Connolly
Texas governor who was in car when JFK was assassinated
Robert Kennedy
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Early Warren
Supreme Court justice
1960 election
republican: Nixon w/ Henry Cabot Lodge, slogan- “For the future”
democrat: JFK w/ LBJ, slogan- “new frontier”
VISTA
LBJ’s answer to war on poverty
Peace Corps
JFK, to help underdeveloped countries
Grand Design
draw to NATO, trade expansion act, GB admitted to common market
Blizzard of Laws, name 2
Medicare, clean air
“Paper Tiger”
China’s name for USSR after they split
NATO
JFK planned to bring closer together using grand design, moved to Brussels, Belgium
Alliance for Progress
1961 foreign policy, economic cooperation, North & South America
