Unit 2 Flashcards
De Facto Segregation
Occurs in practice
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Dedure Segregation
Actual laws that discriminate and segregate
Deficit Spending
America in recession
Increased government spending while decreasing taxes
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Black college students protesting
Three Actions Kennedy Changed Economy
Tax cuts
Technology investments
Limiting poverty
A New Frontier of His Own
Mocking his slogan with Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Failed military invasion aimed at overthrowing Cuban government
Freedom Riders
Kennedy calls MLKJ our of jail
FBI had advanced info but didn’t act
JFK kept trying but things kept failing
Kennedy’s Solution
Guarantee safety and you can arrest protestors
Funds decrease
Texas Democrats before election
Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
Great Society
Johnson wished to fight poverty
Lots of acts
Main Programs Johnson Created
Economic Opportunity Act
Office of Economic Opportunity
Job Corp
VISTA
Medicare
Medicaid
Birmingham Campaign
Peaceful protest of sitting in white only areas
Everyone arrested
Key Demands of March on Washington
End segregation in schools
Voting rights
Fair employment
Raise minimum wage
Economic justice and job equality
Freedom Summer
Trained student volunteers to go to Mississippi to register votes
Ho Chi Minh
Fled to China and organized under him
Indochinese Communist party
Returns to Vietnam and forms Vietminh
Stokely Carmicheal
Freedom rider
Organizes Lowndes County Freedom Organization/Black Panthers
Malcolm X
Early troubled life
Joined Islam
Black Muslim
Spoke for Black nationalism
Views evolved to unity
Shot and killed by Black Muslim
Influenced Black Power and nationalism and economic self sufficiency
SDS
Students for Democratic Society
Anti coorporation
Washington Protest
Organized by SDS
President Johnson is frusturated because he is against Communism but wants money for poor
Decides if you want college deferment, need to be in good standing academically
That means going to class and not protesting
Election
Johnson doesn’t run again and RFK had died
McCarthy who is anti war
Hubert Humphrey who is Johnson’s VP
End of War
Week long truce
Defeat for North
Psychological defeat in America
Stalemate pretty much
US Ambassador of UN
Adligh Stevinson
Target 33
Spy plane ordered by Soviets to be shot down
Operation Raincoat
Code name for invasion of bombs on Cuba
Arkansas Governor Resonse
National Guard to only let white students in
Does this to be re elected
Eisenhower Little Rock Response
Didn’t wish to address as focused on Cold War and didn’t want America to look bad
Tried to convince guard eventually
Black Power Movement in Communities
Breakfast programs
Community health clinics
Educational programs for heritage
Black Power Lasting Change
Community service addressed immediate needs
Empowerment
Influenced public opinion
Black Panther Cold War Threat
Armed prescense viewed as challenge to established authority
Call for revolution conflicted with stable, Democratic portrayal
