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42 Cards in this Set
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Flexible Response
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kennedy's secretary of defence
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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March 1960 Esienhower gave CIA permission to secrtly train CUban exiles for an invasion on cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Castro had a powerful ally. Primier Nikita Khrushchev. who promised to defend Cuba with Soviet Arms. the increase in nuclear weapons to cuba from the soviets scared americans.
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Hot Line
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bewteen the WHite house and the Kemlin,
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Berlin Wall
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concrete wall topped with barbed wire that severed a c ity in two.
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Limited Test Ban Treaty
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Barred nuclear testing in the atomospher.
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New Frontier
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"new pionerrs' to explore the aera of science and space,
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Mandate
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clear indication that veter approved of kennedy's plans
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Peace Corps
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program of volunteer assistance to the developing nastiong of Asia, Africa, Latin America
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Alliance for Progress
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offfered economic and techinical assistance to the Latin American
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Warren Commission
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investigated and concluded that Oswald has shot the president (kennedy) while acting on his own
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Fidel Castro
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Cuban revolitionary leader.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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(lbj) was called to the presidency, his ambition and drive became legendary
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Economic Opportunity Act
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(eoa)appproved 1 billion of youth programs, antipverty measures, small-business loans, job training,Vista(voulenteers in service america) commuinty actions program
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Great Society
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johnson, highered standard of living and equal opportunity, promoste richer quiality of life.
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Medicare
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orivided gispital insurance and low coats medical insurance for all americans
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Medicaid
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extended health insurance to welfare recipients
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Immigration Act of 1965
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opened the doro for many non european immigrants to settle in the united stated
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Warren Court
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banned state sanctioned prayer in public schools and declared state required loyalty oaths unconsititutionak
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Reapportionment
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or the way in which stated redraw election in districts based on the changing number of people in them
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Miranda Rights
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1right to remian silent, 2anything you say can be used as evidence against you, 3you have a right to a consult with an attorney, 4if you can not afford an attory we will give you one, 5knowing these rights do you wants to talk without having your lawyer present.
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Thurgood Marshall
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next 23 years Marshall and NAACP lawyers would win 29 out of 32 cases argued before the supreme court
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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case ruled that separate but equal law didn't violate the 14th amendment,
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Brown v. Board of Education
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violated linda's rights by denying her admission to an all white elemntary school for blocks from her house.
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Little Rock Nine
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1948 arkansas became first southern state to admit African Americans to state universities
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Rosa Parks
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seamstress and NAACP officer, took seat in the front row the of the " colored section of the Montogomery bus"
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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was a pastor of the dexter avenue baptist church, became leader of the boycott on busses
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SCLC
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southern christian leadership conference, to carry on nonviolent chsades against evils of decond class citizenship
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SNCC
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student noviolent coordination committe, protest group hoped to harness the energy of these students, it would create most important studen movements in history
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Sit Ins
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african american protesters sat down at segregated lunch counter and refused to leave until they were served
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Freedom Riders
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hoped to provoke a violent reaction that would convince the Kennedy administration to enforce the law.
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James Meredith
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won federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all white university of Mississippi.( was an air force veteran)
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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prohibited discrimination due to race, religion, national orgin, gender
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Freedom Summer
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influence congress to pass a voting rights act, focused in Mississippi
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Selma Campaign
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major voting rights campaign, were the SNCC were working for 2 years to registor votes
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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eliminated the so called literacy test that had disqualified many voters
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De facto segregation
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segregation that exsists by practice and custom
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De jure segregation
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or segragation by law.
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Malcolm X
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declared to a Harlem audiencem urged followeres to tak ecomlete control of their communities, livelihoods, cultures
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Nation of Islam
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black muslims.
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Black Panthers
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political party to mfight poilce brutalit in the ghetto
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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ended discrimination in housing
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