The 60s Flashcards
Democrat senator from new york was a catholic
JFK
Quaker from state of California
Nixon
JFK set out to implement a legislative agenda that was known as
New Frontier
The commission called for the federal action against gender discrimination and affirmed the right of women
Presidential Commission on the Status of Women proposed Equal Pay Act
Called for funding of research in developmental disabilities
President’s Panel on Mental Retardation
legislation provided grants to build research centers and grants to construct mental health centers
Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963
Began a camp at her home for disabled children became known as Camp Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
where were the 1st special Olympics games held at
Chicago
Method states use to draw up political districts based on changes on population
Reapportionment
Court case all citizens will have equal voting rights
Reynolds vs Sims
judicial requirement that laws may not treat individuals unfairly and courts must follow proper rules
Due Process
court ruled that a defendant in a state court had the right to a lawyer
Gideon vs Wainwright
court case would require authorities to inform suspects of their right to remain silent
Miranda vs Arazona
court case ruled that states cant compose official prayer and require prayers to be recited
Engel vs Vitale
court case ruled against state mandated Bible readings in public schools
Abington School District vs Schempp
program aimed at helping developing nations fight poverty
peace corps
first person to orbit the Earth (soviet)
Yury Gagarin
first american to orbit the Earth
John Glenn
most powerful rocket ever made
Saturn V
The men that were on Saturn V that left in Flordia
Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Michael Collins
lunar module that Armstrong and Aldrin went on
Eagle
First human to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
group of Cuban Exiles who CIA trained and armed
La Brigada
Kennedy and Khrushchev met where?
Vienna, Austria
symbol stood for cold war divisions
Berlin wall
exposed the soviets military inferiority and prompted a dramatic soviet arms build up
Cuban missle crisis
man accused of killing JFK
Oswald
person who killed oswald
Ruby
who took over when JFK died
Lyndon B Johnston
who concluded that oswald was a lone gunner
judge warren
raised in the hill country of texas
Lyndon B Johnson
act that attacked inadequate public services illiteracy and unemployment
Economic Opportunity Act
Provided work study programs to help the underprivileged earn a diploma
Neighborhood Youth Corps
offered tutoring to high school students
upward bound
Lyndon B Johnson’s legislative agenda that offered medicare and medicade
Great society
created for disadvantaged children who never looked at a picture book or scribbled with a crayon
project head start
outlawed discrimination on the basis of race color religion sex or nationality
civil rights act
protect voters from racial discrimination in both voting and practices to bar those from voting
voting rights act
first black to serve in a presidential cabinet
Weaver
established new housing subsidy programs made federal loans
housing and urban development act
required all consumer products to have true and informal lables
fair packaging and labeling act
