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Unit 3 Exam Flashcards

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John F. Kennedy

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Bay of Pigs

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Who: Fidel Castro, the CIA, 
What: Hoping to inspire a revolt against Fidel Castro, the CIA sent 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade their homeland on April 17, 1961, but the mission was a spectacular failure.
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Cuban Missile Crisis

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What: Caused when the United States discovered Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba in October 1962; the U.S.-Soviet confrontation was the Cold War's closest brush with nuclear war.
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Woolworth

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SNCC

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James Meredith

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March on Washington

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Who: black and white americans. 
What: On August 28, 1963, 250,000 black and white Americans converged on the nation's capital for the March on Washington, often considered the high point of the nonviolent civil rights movement.
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Where: The capital, Washington D.C.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Letter From a Birmingham Jail

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What: Term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1965 State of the Union address, in which he proposed legislation to address problems of voting rights, poverty, diseases, education, immigration, and the environment.
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Great Society Programs

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Gulf of Tonkin

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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Tet Offensive

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What: Surprise attack by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese during the Vietnamese New Year of 1968; turned American public opinion strongly against the war in Vietnam.
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Vietnamization

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SDS

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Woodstock

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Cesar Chavez

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AIM

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Malcolm X

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Black Panthers

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Betty Freidan

The Feminine Mystique – A publication by Betty Friedan that focused attention on the reality facing suburban women.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Richard M. Nixon

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Detente

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OPEC

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Watergate

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Containment

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Generation X

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“Job Switching”

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Group Projects

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