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17 Cards in this Set
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Barry GoldWater
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was a very very conservative Republican candidate in 1964, he attacked the federal income tax, the Social Security system, the Tennessee Valley Authority, civil rights legislation, the nuclear test ban treaty, and most loudly, the Great society. Lost the election in 1964 by a landslide only winning his native Arizona and five other states
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Stokely Carmichael
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a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began to preach the doctrine of Black Power in 1966. Which he said "will smash everything western civilization has created." Some advocates of Black Power insisted that they simply intended the slogal to describe a broad-front effort to exercise the political and economic rights gained by the civil rights movement and speed the integration of American society. But other advocated breathed a very separatist meaning of Black Power. They emphasied African American distinctiveness, promoted "Afro" hairstyles and dress, shed their "white" names for new African identities and demanded black studies programs in schools and universities
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Eugene McCarthy
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a democratic senator from Minnesota he emerged as a contender for the 1968 democratic nomination. He gathered a small army of anitwar college students as campaign workers. Going "clean for Gene" with shaven faces and shortened locks, they helped him gain an impressive 41.4 percent of the Democratic vote in the New Hampshire primary. McCarthy's showing devasted LBJ/
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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After the death of Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey a senator of Minnestoa was the heir for LBj. Humphrey swept the nomination of the first ballot while their was a police riot going on outside. Humphrey's nomination blocked the McCarthyites' attempt to secure an antiware platform plank and hammered into place their own declaration that armed force would be relentlessly applied until the enemy showed more willingness to negotiate. He lost the election to Nixon.
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George Wallace
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formed the American Independent Party with running mate airforce General Curtis LeMay. Wallace advocated "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" he amassed the largest third party popular vote in American history and was the last third-party to win any electoral votes. Wallace resoundly demonstrated the power of "populist" politics, which appealed to voters' fears and resentments rather than to the better angels of their nature. His candidacy foreshadowed a coarsening of American political life that would take deep root in the ensuing decades.
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Flexible Response (connect to NSC-68 and Eisenhower's "New Look"
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brushfire wars like in Laos intensified pressure shift away from massive retaliation
* Mcnamara and Kennedy pushed the strategy of "flexible response" * array of military options depending on scaleo f situation * increased spending on conventional military forces * provided the progression of military use that'd be used in veitnam * lowered level of diplomacy and encouraged shooting It was different that instead of building big bombs for huge military actions it instead decided to spend money on conventional weaponry and would escalate for the situation. The NSC-68 also advocated to build the large bombs and to keep up with Soviet technology instead of conventionality. |
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New Frontier
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JFK had high expectations. He'd spoken of a "New Frontier", hinting that America was on the brink of something newly great. He was optimistic and idealistic.Kennedy started the Peace Corps where mostly young, idealistic Americans would go to third world nations to help out and teach. Usually the fields were health, agriculture, languages and math. The New Frontier, his domestic social program, was threatened by both Democrat and Republican conservatives. Some of Kennedy's steps were put made…The House Rules Committee was expanded—this might help avoid conservative hang-ups.
A noninflationary wage agreement was settled, contingent on companies keeping prices down. When steel companies did not, Kennedy called in their leaders into the White House, reprimanded them, and they backed down. Also invested in the "final frontier' which was getting a man on the moon. Which he did with the Apollo in 1969. |
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Bay of Pigs
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* Eisenhower admin worked on CIA scheme to overthrow Fidel with anti-commy exiles
* 1961 Bay of Pigs * Kennedy last minute said no air support * Exiles were massacred; kennedy took full responsiblity * Cuba very anti-american teams up with Soviets * soviets install nuclear weapons * creates Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 * Kennedy orders a naval quarantine of Cuba and demaned removal of the weapons * Compromise * Khrushchev flinched * Soviets pull missiles out of Cuba * US would end quarantine and not invade cuba and remove missiles in Turkey * Khruschev went home to an uproar of criticism |
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Great Society
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* "War on Poverty
* very New Dealish economic and welfare measures * Michael Harrington's "The Other America" (1962) gained support for it * with a democratic congress poured in a flood of new legislature * Doubled the Appropriation of the Office of Economic Opportunity to 2 billion and granted more than 1 billion to redevelop the gutted hills and hollows of Appalachia * Project Head Start, sharply improved the educational perfomce of underpriviled youth * infant mortality rates when down * health conditions improved * Created two new cabinet offices * Department of Transportation * The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) * named first black Cabinet membet * Robert C. Weaver * National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities designed to lift the level of American cultural life * Big Four legislative achievements * aid to education * channeled educational aid to students, nto schools thus avoided the issue of separation of churhc and state * medical care for the elderly * medicare and medicaid 1965 * created entiltements * "rights revolution" that improved lives of many Americans * eventually undermined Federal financial health * * immigration reform * The Immigration and nationality Act of 1965 * abolished at last the "national origins" quota system * also doubled the amount of immigrants allowed to come in annualy * first time set limits on immigrants in Western Hemisphere * Further provided admissions for close relative of United states outside of numerical limits * "Family Unification" * huge flux of immigration of Latin Americans and Asians changing composition of American population * new voting rights bill * The Voting Rights Act of 1965 * outlawed discriminatory voting rights practices |
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Dr. King's War On Poverty
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Adressed issues of economic injustices and houses for black people. He also wanted better suport for sanitary workers like garbage men. He supported LBJ's "Great Society. MLK preached radical things than just civil rights. He wanted to improve jobs, income, and housing for blacks. He also wanted to help the lowest of the low. Garbage Worker Strike.
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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1964 was an episode were the US navy was supposedly attacked by North Vietnam. Later evidence shows that the US actually fired on them. But the resolution was that both houses abdicated their war-declaring powers and handed the president a black check to use further force in SouthEast asia.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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LBJ passed passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
* banned racial discrimination in most private facilities open to the public * strengthed federal govenrments power to end segregation in schools and other public places. * Title VII * barred employment discrimination * empowered the Equal Employment Oppurtunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce the law * also carried a sexual clause that Republicans tried to put into to stop its passing * LBJ issued executive ord |
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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one of LBJ's big 4 legislative achievements new voting rights bill
* The Voting Rights Act of 1965 * outlawed discriminatory voting rights practices such as literacy tests, poll tax, that barred blacks from the political process |
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cuba very anti-american teams up with Soviets
* soviets install nuclear weapons * creates Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 * Kennedy orders a naval quarantine of Cuba and demaned removal of the weapons * Compromise * Khrushchev flinched * Soviets pull missiles out of Cuba * US would end quarantine and not invade cuba and remove missiles in Turkey * Khruschev went home to an uproar of criticism * the cuban missile crisis encourage Kennedy to create a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviets * a pact was meant prohibiting trial of nuclear explosions in the atomsphere 1963 |
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24th Amendment 1964
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Abolished the poll tax in federal elections. This helped lead to more blacks being registered to vote. Passing of legislation like this also helped lead to the Freedom Summer were many black and white civil rights workers traveled from the north to Mississipi in a massive voter registration drive.
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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After the Viet Cong attack of an American air base at Pleiku in 1965. LBJ immediately ordered retaliatory bombing raids against military installation in North Vietnam and for the first time ordered attacking U.S. troops to land. By the middle of march in 1965 the American had "Operation Rolling Thunder" in full swing regular full-scale bombing attacks against North Vietnam.
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Tet Offensive (1968)
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during the Vietnamese new year Viet Cong launched an attack on 27 key south vietnamese cities including the capital of Saigon. Although Saigon was eventually recaptured. The Tet offensive was a political defeat for ameria. American public opinion demanded a speedy end to the war.
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