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100 Cards in this Set
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New Deal |
Preserving the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt |
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JFK Assassination |
11/22/1963 |
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Kennedy/Nixon Debate |
1st televised presidential debate; key to Ken's victory |
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Camelot |
Romanticized view of Kennedy's Assassination |
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Bob Dylan |
Rob Zimmerman who preformed at the March on Washington; "Blowing in the Wind" |
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11/22/1963 |
JFK Assassination |
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Lee Harvey Oswald |
Gunman |
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Bobby Kennedy |
Attorney General that ran for Democratic nomination in 1968 |
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George Wallace |
Governor of AL who blocked the door of Uni of AL |
Super Racist |
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LBJ |
Lyndon B. Johnson, succeeded JFK |
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Great Society |
Johnson's agenda to end poverty & racial injustice |
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War on Poverty |
LBJ's agenda aimed @ changing the "culture of poverty" |
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Voting Rights Act |
Passed in August 1965 after events in Selma |
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Civil Rights Act |
Outlawed segregation & racial discrimination; "Ken Program" |
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Barry Goldwater |
Republican nominee 1964; father of modern conservative movement |
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"Daisy Ad" |
LBJ campaign in 1964 election |
Little girl & nuclear explosions |
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John Birch Society |
Largest organization of militant conservatism 1958 |
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Will F. Buckley Jr. |
Famous conservative writer who used irony to defend Christianity & the free market |
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National Review |
Magazine founded by Buckley |
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Earl Warren |
Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
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Baby Boom |
Pop explosion that began in 1946 |
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Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) |
Student followers of Goldwater |
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Students for Democratic Society (SDS) |
Leftist student group influenced by SNCC |
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Port Huron Statement |
Values & purpose for SDS |
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Military Industrial Complex |
American foreign policy would be influenced greatly by war business; Eisenhower's farewell address |
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Plessy v Ferguson |
Established "Separate but Equal" doctrine |
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"Separate but Equal" |
Legalized segregation |
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Brown v Board of Education 1954 |
Supreme Court case that ended legalized segregation |
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Thurgood Marshall |
1st AA Justice on the Supreme Court |
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Jim Crow |
Entire system of segregation |
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Poll Tax |
A barrier to prevent AA from voting |
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Miscegenation |
Another word for race mixing, interracial marriage |
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Rosa Parks |
Launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
1955, grass roots movement against Jim Crow; rise in prominence of MLKJ |
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Lunch Counters |
Sites of Non Violent resistance to segregation |
Marti Turnipseed |
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SNCC |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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Emmett Till |
Teen from Chicago beaten to death in Miss 1955 |
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Fanny Lou Hamer |
Miss sharecropper & leading voice in the voting rights movement |
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Freedom Ride |
7+6 activist who challenged segregation in bus terminals |
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Black Nationalism |
Strengthen the black community rather than attempting to integrate w/white America |
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Black Panther Party |
Black militants in the name of Self-Defense for the black community Oakland, Cali |
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March on Washington |
Site of "I Have a Dream" |
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Bull Connor |
BHAM commissioner of published safety who set dogs and fire hoses on protestors |
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16th St Bap Church |
9/15/1963 klansmen bombed church |
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"Standing in the School Door" |
Gov. Wallace's symbolic stand against desegregation |
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Medgar Evers |
Leader of NAACP in Miss; killed in his driveway in June 1963 |
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Motown |
Detroit record company is credited w/subverting cultural & racial assumptions held by white America |
"You've Really Got a Hold on Me" |
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Bloody Sunday |
Voting rights marchers beaten to ground by state troopers w/Billy clubs, cattle prods, & bull whips |
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Selma |
Voting marchers were stopped by club swinging AL state trooper s on Edmund Petus bridge |
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"We Shall Overcome" |
Considered anthem of civil rights movement |
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"Hotline" to the Kremlin |
To avoid future problems increase communication B/t US & Soviet Union |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
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Berlin |
Most likely spot for militant probs B/t US & Soviet Union |
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Fidel Castro |
Leader of Cuban revolution allied with USSR |
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Bay of Pigs |
Invasion by US backed Cuban exiles attempting to retake their homeland |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
2 weeks into Oct. 1962, US & USSR came closest to nuclear war |
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Ho Chi Minh |
Vietnamese Commi leader |
He who Enlightens |
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French Indochina |
Euro territories of Cambodia, Laos, & Vietnam |
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Truman Doctrine |
Policy to support free ppl who are resisting communism |
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Domino Theory |
If one country falls to communism then all fall |
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Pentagon Papers |
Docs leaked to NYT a/B shady practices policymaking toward Vietnam |
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Nikita Khruschev |
Soviet Premier during Cuban Missile Crisis |
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Viet Cong (NLF) |
North Vietnam fighters who dressed in the same black pajamas as the local peasants |
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Counterinsurgency |
Early American strategy in Vietnam; made use of small #s of American military advisors & technicians |
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Green Berets |
American special force |
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Robert McNamara |
Secretary of Defense |
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Tonkin Gulf War |
US was all in the Vietnam war after they blew up Maddox |
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Gulf of Tonkin |
Site of blown up Maddox |
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My Lai Massacre |
Vietnam village where American GIs murdered @ least 347 civilians in 1968 |
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Walter Cronkite |
Announced hopelessness of Vietnam war |
1968 CBS news anchor |
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Vietnamization |
Gradual withdrawal from Vietnam by training & equipping the ARVN to fight its own battles |
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Cambodia & Laos |
Countries where Nixon expanded the war, US caught in a quagmire |
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Henry Kissinger |
National Security Adviser & Secretary of State for Richard Nixon |
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Fragging |
Practice by enlisted men in Vietnam killing their own officers |
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Mao Zedong |
Chinese Communist leader & founder of the peoples republic of China in 1949 |
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Kent State |
1970 killing of four students by national guardsmen |
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Allen Ginsberg |
Beat poet and CC icon |
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Beat Generation |
Writers from 1950's seen as precursors to the 1960's CC |
Ginsberg & Kerouac |
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"Howl" |
Accuses conformist American culture of destroying the best minds of the generation |
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Sexual Revolution |
Erotic should be celebrated in norm life |
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The pill |
Gave women control of their bodies and sex life |
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LSD |
1943 discovered by Albert Hoffman |
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Tim Leary |
Harvard psy pro promoter of LSD consciousness |
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Aldous Huxley |
Coined term of Doors of Perception |
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Haight Ashbury |
Destination for hippies |
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Communes |
Settlements that sought to practice the ideal ends they preached |
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Summer of Love |
1967 all the hippies came to Haight Ashbury |
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Woodstock 1969 |
3 day music fest w/Jimi Hendrix |
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UC Berkeley 1964 |
Free speech movement began |
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Knowledge Industry |
Describes the system of American higher education |
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Teach Ins |
Anti war Protest that taught a/B Vietnam war |
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Chicago Democratic Convention 1968 |
Yippie antiwar demonstration that became Violent confrontation B/t police & protestors |
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Miss America Protestors |
Atlantic city famous boardwalk have rise to the phrase bra burning feminist |
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Human potential movement |
Corporate retreats, business seminars, meditation, and acid trips |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Guru in Rishikresh, India 1968; Beatles White Album |
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Transcendentalist Meditation |
Science of creative intelligence |
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Apollo XI |
Landed on moon 07/20/1969 |
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Berkeley Free Speech Movement |
1964 Kerr curbs political speech & etc. activities on campus |
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Yippie |
Youth international party; DEC. 1967 did a lot of CC stuff |
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New Journalism |
Tom Wolfe; dramatic, participant observer writing accounts of important phenomena |
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Feminine Mystique |
Friedan, credited with starting the women's rights movements |
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