reading notes for chapter 28 and 29

Question 1

new frontier

Answer 1

a term used by JFK in his acceptance speech to inspire America to support him

Question 2

clean air act, 1963

Answer 2

to implement and enforce regulations reducing air pollutant emissions

Question 3

peace corps

Answer 3

a volunteer program run by the United States government. the stated mission was to help people outside the United States to understand american culture and helping americans to understand the cultures of other countries

Question 4

bay of pigs

Answer 4

a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA sponsored paramilitary group brigade

Question 5

cuban missile crisis

Answer 5

a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over soviet ballistic missiles deployed in cuba

Question 6

detente

Answer 6

the easing of hostility or strained relations between countries

Question 7

great society

Answer 7

a domestic program in the administration of president LBJ that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs

Question 8

economic opportunity act

Answer 8

authorized the formation of local community action agencies as part of the war on poverty. these agencies are directly regulated by the federal government

Question 9

medicare and Medicaid

Answer 9

medicare is designed to help senior citizens and medicaid is designed to help the other people who need help and cant afford it

Question 10

immigration act of 1965

Answer 10

ends the discriminatory system of national origins quotas established in 1924

Question 11

department of housing and urban development

Answer 11

legislators approved funds for education and housing

Question 12

motor vehicle safety act

Answer 12

required states to establish highway safety programs and set first federal safety standards for automobiles

Question 13

thurgood marshall

Answer 13

the courts first black justice

Question 14

miranda v arizona

Answer 14

requires police to advice a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent and to have a counsel present during interrogation

Question 15

Civil Rights Act, 1963

Answer 15

banned racial discrimination and segregation in public accommodations

Question 16

voting rights act

Answer 16

invalidated the use of any test of device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disfranchised blacks

Question 17

hippies

Answer 17

disdained regular employment and consumerism, preferring to make what they needed, share it with others, and not want what they did not have

Question 18

woodstock

Answer 18

a music festival celebrating their vision of freedom and harmony

Question 19

Tet offensive

Answer 19

americans reacted to the realization that no area of south Vietnam was secure from the enemy and that a fore that the president had claimed was beaten could initiate attacks

Question 20

My Lai Massacre

Answer 20

under the command of first lieutenant william calley, the men of charlie company attacked the hamlet of my lai in march 1968. believing it to be a viet cong stronghold they massacred some five hundred unarmed villagers, mostly women and children

Question 21

SALT I

Answer 21

limited each nation to two antiballistic missile systems, froze each sides offensive nuclear missiles for five years and committed both countries to strategic equality rather than nuclear superiority

Question 22

greensboro sit ins

Answer 22

a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro