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24 Cards in this Set
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Who were the candidates in the 1960 election, and who won and why?
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-Nixon vs. Kennedy
-Kennedy was Catholic, seen disevantage -Kennedy wins |
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What was the Cuban Dilemma?
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-Flexible response
-Communist revolution by Castro, took over -10% fled to the US |
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What was the Bay of Pigs?
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-CIA planned to overthrow Castro, but it was a trainwreck
-Embarrassment for JFK, but streghtened SU and Cuba relations |
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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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-Khrushchev sent weapons to Cuba, which is in striking distance of US
-JFK warned SU if they fire that we would strike back -Both K and JFK's prestige damaged, and both agree to remove missiles |
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What were two programs by JFK?
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-Peace Corps=sent young people to 3rd world countries to help out with health care, economic, ect.
-Alliance for Progress=$20 billion to Latin America |
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What was the Berlin Wall?
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-People kept fleeing from East Germany
-Escape is impossible (mines, guards, dogs, ect.) -Torn down in 81 |
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What was the Space Program?
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-1st human in space=Yuri Gagarin
-NASA=funding increases -Glenn 1st to orbit Earth -Armstrong 1st step on the moon |
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Who assassinated Kennedy?
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Lee Oswald
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Who shot Kennedy's assinator?
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Jack Ruby
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Who ran in the election of 1964? Who won?
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-Goldwater (likes war, republican)
-Vs. LBJ (easily wins) |
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What are four of the programs that LBJ did?
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-Head Start=provided poor kids w/ academic assistance through pre-school
-Job Corps=training for poor, inner-city youth -Medicare=extend social security and health insurance for elderly -Medicad=health insurance for poor -VISTA=volunteers youth to work in poor areas -HUD=urban renewal -Arts |
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What are two things that the Warren Courts changed?
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-Can't pray at public schools
-People's vote was more equal in cities and rural |
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What were the cases and laws in the Warren Court?
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-Matt v. Ohio=illegally siezed evidence
-...vs. Wayne=give lawyer if you can't afford one -Escobedo v. Illonoise=right to have attorney during questioning -Miranda v. Arizona=read rights |
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What was Brown v. Board of Education?
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-Marshall
-Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson "separate but equal" -Linda Brown was denied to an all white school 2 blocks from house |
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What was the response to Marshall's decision?
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-Whites refused to go to schools, KKK came back, Eisenhower said he was a fool to appoint Marshall
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Who were the Little Rock Nine?
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-First school to integrate, but govenor didn't support
-Prez sent 1,000 troops so the nine could go to school |
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What were Marches In Burmingham?
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-MLK and Fred
-Tried to order them to stop, and MLK was jailed (where he wrote letter) |
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What was the March on Washington?
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Where MLK made "I have a dream"
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Who were the Freedom Riders?
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-To check how integration was going
-Rode buses bound to South, met w/ white brutality -Arrested in Jackson -Prepared for it |
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What at the voting marches in Alabama?
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-Lots of police brutality
-2nd one had national guard protection |
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What is flexible response?
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Kennedy increased military spending to develop coventional military strategies to deal with limited wars throughout the world
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What was SNCC?
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to better organize student movement.
-"Jail not bail" |
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What was the Black Power movement?
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attempt to seize political power in an Alabama election and advocated separatism
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Civil RIghts Bill 1964?
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-Forbade segregation in hotels, resturantes, theaters, sporting arenas
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