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10 Cards in this Set
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Kennedy Promise |
May 25, 1961 President John Kennedy announced that America would be sending an American safely to the moon and back. |
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Great society |
A domestic Program in the administration of president LBJ that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs |
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George Wallace |
A political leader of the of the 20th century. He vacated the race for the democratic presidential nomination |
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Brown vs Board of education |
In 1954 the Supreme Court passed this law meaning that schools had to end segregation for everyone to have a separate but equal education |
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SNCC |
Also meaning (School Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) was an American political Organization that played a big role in the civil rights movement |
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Letter from Birmingham jail |
A letter that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr wrote to his clergymen while he was in jail in 1963 |
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Counterculture |
A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm |
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My Lai |
An incident that occurred during the Vietnam war on March 16 1968. A group of US soldiers killed 347 ordinary people |
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Watergate |
A gate of a town or castle opening on to a lake, river or sea |
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Iranian Hostage Crisis |
52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4 1979 until January 20, 1981 |
