LBJ AND JFK Flashcards
1960s music
beach boys (harmony), marvin gay (soul), bob dylan, diana ross, jimmy hendrix, beatles
british invasion- beatles, the who
soul- james brown, uretha franklin
acid rock-the doors, the greatful dead
1960s voices
JFK, LBJ, Muhammad ali, betty friedan, malcom x, andy warhol, bob dylan, ralph nadar
1960s woodstock
august 15-17, 1969, music festival, on max yasgur’s farm, jimmy hendrix, sex drug and rock and roll
1960s religion
zen buddhism, communal living-hippies
1960s new products
electric tooth brushes, felt tip pens, easy bake ovens, push button phone, pop tarts, camero, spaghetti o’s, 64 1/2 ford mustang, big mac, 5 digit zip codes
1960s counter culture
anti establishment, “make love not war”, timothy leary, hippie culture begins in CA, belled bottoms, flower shirts, long hair
space race Yuri Gagarin
1961, vostok 1, first man in space
space race Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
neil armstrong first man on moon, the eagle has landed, apollo 11, first craft to land on the moon, Aldrin second man, Collins stayed aboard
Charles DeGualle
Wanted to back out of NATO so we did the grand design and he felt manipulated and withdrew. He is the leader of France
Henry Cabot lodge
Ran as nixons vp in the 60 election
Gerald ford
Future prez, was on the warren commission which investigated kennedys death
Richard Nixon
Ran for prez in the 1060 election, did not win, republican, slogan was “for the future”,
Nikita Khrushchev
Leader of Russia
Timothy Leary
Did the experiments with LSD on his students
Lyndon B Johnson
Born in Texas, was in the navy in WWII, married with 2 daughters, political career starts in 37, became senator in 41, JFKs vp,
While he was prez he passed dept of housing and urban development, Medicare/Medicaid, voting rights act, civil rights act, Vietnam
His foreign policy was dominated by war
John Franklin Kennedy
democratic president, irish catholic, 9 siblings, wealthy because of prohibition, competitive family, health problems back injuries, very political family, went to Harvard, 6 congress, 8 senate, only prez to win pulitzer prize, “new frontier”,
was prez during march on Washington, nuclear test ban, peace corps, bay of pigs cuban missile crisis, trade expansion act
assassination-killed 11-22-1963, warren in charge of the investigation of his death
Jack ruby
Shot Oswald so he was never tried
Lee Harvey Oswald
Supposed murder of JFK
John Connolly
Mayor of Texas or something, was with Kennedy when he was shot and died.
Robert Kennedy
Brother and attorney general of JFK, he was assassinated
Earl Warren
In charge of warren commission which investigated kennedys assassination
1960 election
Republicans-Nixon and Lodge, “for the future”
Democrats-John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Johnson, “New frontier”
JFK wins
Issues-Berlin being split, ussr, Cuba, missile gap, liberation of African nations, 2 China’s
1964 election
Democrats-LBJ, hubert humphrey, his goal was to restrain foreign policy, Federal gov aid for education, dominated “middle of the road”, he stood for civil rights, and wanted to declare war on poverty
Republicans-Barry Goldwater, his goal was to have no civil rights, he suggested sale of tva, questioned social security, said violent conflict with ussr was inevitable, alienated many republicans
VISTA
LBJ’s answer to world poverty
Peace corps
Volunteers in under developed countries, who educated those living there
Grand design
Wanted to draw NATO nations closer, trade expansion act-terrify dropped on NATO nations, Great Britain had to be admitted to common market, DeGualle feels manipulated and withdrawals, NATO moves to Belgium
Blizzard of laws
LBJ’s big push to pass laws after kennedys death
“Paper Tiger”
What China called Soviet Union
Alliance for progress
Economic cooperation between north and South America
NATO
Treaty between nations that is mutually beneficial, ties strengthened under Kennedy
