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New frontier 1961-1963 |
President Kennedy's nickname for his domestic policy agenda. Bouyed by youthful optimism, the program included proposals for the Peace Corps and effects to improve education and health care. |
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Peace Corps |
A federal agency created by president kennedy in 1961 to promote voluntary service by Americans in foreign countries. The peace corps provides labor power to help developing countries improve their infrastructure, health care, educational systems, and other aspects of their societies. Part of kennedys New frontier vision, the organization represented an effort by postwar liberals to promote American values and influence through productive exchanges across the world. |
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Apollo 1961-1975 |
Program of manned space flights run by Americans National Aeronautics and space Administration (NASA). The project's highest achievement was the landing of apollo ll on the moon on July 20,1969. |
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Berlin wall |
Fortified and guarded barrier between East and West Berlin erected on orders from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 to stop the flow of people to the West. Until its destruction in 1989, thw wall was a vivid symbolof the communist and capitalist worlds. |
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European economic community EEC |
Free trade zonein western Europe created by treaty of Rome in 1957. Often referred to as the "Common market," this collection of countries originally included france west germany italy Belgium the Netherlands and luxemburg. The body eventually expanded to become the European union which by 2005 included 27 member states. |
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Bays of pigs invasion 1961 |
CIA plot in 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro by training cuban exiles to invade and supporting them with Americans air power. The mission failed and became a public relations disasters early in john f. Kennedy's presidency. |
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Cuban missile crisis 1962 |
Standoff between John F. Kennedy's and soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in October 1962 over soviet pland to install nuclear weapons in cuba. Although the crisis was ultimately settled in. Americas favor and represented a forgein policy truimph for Kennedy's, it brought the world superpowers perilo close to the brink of nuclear confrontation. |
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Freedom riders 1961 |
Organized mixed race groups who rode interstate buses deep into the south to draw attention to and protest racial segregation, beginning in 1961. This effort by northern young people to challenge racism proved a political and public relations success for tge civil rights movement. |
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Voter education project 1962-1968 |
Effort by SNCC and other civil rights groups to register the south's historically disenfranchised black population the project typified a common strategy of the civil rights movement, which sought to counter racial discrimination by empowering people at grassroots levels to exercise their civic rights through voting. |
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Civil rights act of 1964 |
Federal law that banned racial discrimination in public facilities and strengthened the federal government power to fight segregation in schools. Title vii of tge act provided. No means of enforcement and was therefore ineffective. In 1883, the supreme court declared most of the act unconstitutional. |
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Affirmative action |
Program designed to redress historical racial and gender imbalances and jobs and education the term Grew From an exclusive order issued by John F Kennedy in 1961 maintaining the project paid for with federal funds could not discriminate based on race in their hiring practices in the late 1960 President Nixon Philadelphia planned change the meaning of affirmative action to require attention to certain groups rather than protect individuals against discrimination |
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Great society 1964-1968 |
President Johnson term for his domestic policy agenda billed as a successor to the New Deal the Great Society and to extend the postwar prosperity to all people in American Society for promoting civil rights and finding property Great Society program included the war on poverty which expanded the social security system by creating Medicare and Medicaid to provide health care for the Aged and the poor Johnson also signed law protecting consumers and empowering Community organisation to come back probably at grassroot levels |
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Mississippi freedom democratic party 1964 |
Political party organized by civil rights activists to channel is Mississippi delegation to the Democratic National Convention who opposed to civil rights playing in the party platform claiming a mandate to represent the true voice of Mississippi where almost no black citizens to vote the MFDP demanded to be seated at the convention but where DENIED by party bosses the effort was both a setback to civil rights activism in the South and a motivation to continue to struggle for black voting rights |
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Voting rights act of 1965 |
Legislation pushed through Congress by President Johnson that prohibited ballot denying tactics such as the natives and intimidation the Voting Rights Act was a sister to the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and sought to make racial disenfranchisement explicitly illegal. |
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Black Panthers party |
Organization of arm black militants Farm in Oakland California in 1966 to protect black racer the Panthers represent of growing dissatisfaction with the nonviolent swing of the civil rights movement and Signal a new direction to the moment after the legislative victory of 1964 and 1965 |
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Black power |
Adoptions of militancy and separate ISM that Rose in prominence after 1965 black power activist rejected Martin Luther King pacifism and desire for integration rather they promoted pride and African Heritage and often militant position in defense of their rights |
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Six day war 1967 |
Military conflict between Israel and Arab neighbors including Syria Egypt and Jordan the war ended with and usually Victory and territorial expansion into Cena Palencia the Golan Heights and Gaza Strip and the West Bank in 1967 what was a humiliation for several Arab states and a territorial dispute a created form the basis for continued conflict in the region |
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Stonewall rebellion 1969 |
Uprising in support of equal rights for gay people sparked by an assault by off duty police officer at a gay bar in New York the rebellion led to a rise in activism and militancy with the gay community and for the sexual revolution in the late 1960s |
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Student for a Democratic Society |
A Campus based political organization founded in 1961 by Tom Hayden that became an iconic representation of the new left originally geared towards the intellectual promise of participate real democracy SDS emerged at the Forefront of the Civil Rights anti-poverty and anti-war movement during the 1960 |
