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72 Cards in this Set
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Election Runners |
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon |
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John F. Kennedy |
Democratic, handsome, youngest elected President, Catholic. |
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What was different about this election? |
The debates were televised. |
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." |
John F. Kennedy. |
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Flexible Response |
It allowed the U.S. to engage in military actions that stopped short of nuclear attack. |
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What does Kennedy do after the Flexible Response? |
He strengthens non nuclear forces because he would rather focus on other things than started a nuclear war. |
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What countries contain nuclear bombs? |
U.S., USSR, England, France, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, and South Africa. |
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Which country got rid of nuclear bombs? |
South Africa. |
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Berlin Wall |
Khrushchev creates it. 20% East Germans fled to West Germany. |
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Why did Khrushchev build the Berlin Wall? |
He was testing Kennedy to see how he would take it. |
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Cuba Missile Crisis |
Castro nationalizes American companies in Cuba. For 13 days, the world almost entered Nuclear War. |
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Bay of Pigs |
C.I.A planned on invading Cuba, but someone leaked the plans to them so Cuba was there prepared. |
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Who helps Castro? |
Khrushchev, he gives Castro nuclear bombs. |
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Flexible Response Choices. |
1. Invade (X) 2. Bomb (X) 3. Have the US navy blockade Cuba, keeping USSR from giving the bombs. |
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Robert Kennedy |
Younger brother of John. |
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Deal between Robert and Soviet Ambassador |
The only reason the ship's carrying the nuclear bombs turned around is because the Soviet Union got something, and the US got something. |
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US Received |
Soviet missiles were removed from Cuba, everyone is allowed to believe that the US won. |
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Soviets got |
US took missiles out of Turkey, US agrees to never try to remove Castro again. |
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Cold War Tensions |
Kennedy and Khrushchev establish the phone hot line. |
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What cooled down the Cold War Tensions? |
Test Ban Theory. |
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Test Ban Theory |
Limited nuclear Bomb testing. |
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New Frontier |
Slogan Kennedy used in his speech. |
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Peace Corps |
Called for American volunteers to be in aid to foreign countries that are less developed. |
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1st American in Space? |
Alan Shepherd. |
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Camelot Years |
The years the Kennedy's lived in the white house. It was also the first time kids lived in the white house. |
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Who was charged with the murder of Kennedy? |
Lee Harvey Oswald. |
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Magic Bullet Theory |
One bullet supposedly gave Kennedy 7 wounds. Yeah right. |
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Date of JFK assassination? |
November 22, 1963 |
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New President? |
Lyndon Baines Johnson. |
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What did LBJ focus on? |
Unemployment and poverty. |
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What does LBJ persuade Congress to do? |
Pass tax reduction bill over $11 billion into law. |
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Civil Rights Act |
Prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, nationality, gender. |
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LBJ declares |
War on Poverty |
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Economic Opportunity Act |
Providing $1 billion for youth programs, antipoverty measures, small business loans. |
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VISTA |
Volunteers in Service to America. Head start former to help the poor. |
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Senator Barry Goldwater |
Nominated by Reps, suggests use of nuclear weapons in North Vietnam and Cuba. |
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Great Society |
Focused on providing solutions to problems of poverty and civil rights. |
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act |
Money for text books, library materials, special ed. Required. |
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Medicare |
Hospital insurance for people 65 and over |
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Medicaid |
Hospital insurance for the poor. |
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Robert Weaver |
First African American to hold a cabinet post. |
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Ronald Reagan |
Wins Califoria gov. ship |
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Fight for Civil Rights |
Jim Crow Laws and segregation. |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
Affirmed legality of segregating the races and prompted the passage of Jim Crow Laws. |
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Thurgood Marshall |
Would win 29 cases before Supreme court. Argued about Brown v. Board of Education before Supreme Court. |
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Rosa Parks |
Boycott is organized to protest discrimination on city buses. |
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Montgomery Bus stand |
Blacks refused to ride Montgomery buses for 381 days. Supreme Court outlaws segregated buses. |
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Nonviolent Civil Disobedience |
King promotes civil right through it. |
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
Founded by King. |
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Ella Baker |
Helps form Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. |
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James Meredith |
First black to enter all white University of Mississippi. |
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Birmingham |
1957-63. 18 bombings happened in the city of Birmingham. |
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Fred Shuttle |
Invites King to test Nonviolence Approach. King led band of marchers on Good Friday. |
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Letter from a Birminham Jail |
Written by King while he was in jail. |
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May 2nd |
King plans Children's march. 959 of them are arrested. |
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September 1963 |
Baptist Church on 16th street bombed. Killing four little girls. |
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Civil Rights Act Specifically Ruled |
Specifically prohibited discrimination in public accomodations. White Only signs were illegal. |
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Voter Registration Drive |
CORE and SNCC planned voter registration drive in Mississippi in Freedom Summer. |
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Mississippi Burning |
3 white civil rights workers were murdered and buried. |
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Fannie Lou Hamer |
Tried to register to vote, was beat for it. |
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
SNCC organizes. Wanted to get rid of racist Demos. |
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March on Selma |
SCLC decided. 3% of blacks registered votes, half of the population there was made up of blacks. 2000 blacks were arrested |
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James Reeb |
White clergy, killed by police during March of Selma. |
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George Wallace |
Vowed to do everything to stop Selma March. |
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De Jure Segregation |
Segregation that results from habit and tradition. |
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De facto Segregation |
Segregation results from tradition |
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Watts, LA |
Riots broke out against police which lasted for 6 days. 34 were killed, properties worth $30 million were destroyed. |
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Riot cities |
Riots took place in 100 cities. |
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Malcolm X |
Name used to be Malcolm Little. Black who was a great speaker and believed in the black Muslim movement. |
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Black Panthers |
Made by Henry Newton and Bobby Seale. |
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James Earl Ray |
Assasinated King in April 4, 1968 |
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Diem |
Corrupt ruler of Vietnam. Was threatened by Comm. Viet. Cong. Movement led by Ho Chi Minh. |
