the 1960s
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- JFK Assassination
- November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX
- Cesar Chavez
- led United Farm Workers - migrants for better conditions and wages
- Housing and Urban Development Act
- HUD - 1968 - housing assistance for low income families
- Pop Art
- using inanimate objects and bright colors
- Job Corps
- Work training for those 16 - 21
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Assassinated JFK, later killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby
- Red Power
- American Indian Movement - Minnesota Chippewas in the 1970s
- John F. Kennedy
- (1) charm, wit, good looks, war record (2) separation of church and state (3) youngest president ever elected (43) (4) attorney general Bobby Kennedy (5) commission for status of women
- Hot Line
- direct connection between US and Soviet Union during Cold War
- Alliance for Progress
- Program introduced by Kennedy to expand economic aid to Lat. Am. (1) offered billions of dollars in aid to participating countries (2) in return, countries expected to develop democratic reforms and encourage capitalism
- Brown Power
- Chicano Movement - young Mex-Am students emphasize pride in Mexican culture and heritage
- Equal Pay Act
- made it illegal to pay women less than men for the same job
- Berlin Wall
- Most recognizable symbol of Cold War
- Medicare
- health care insurance for people over 65
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- (1) Great Society (2) took over after Kennedy's assassination
- Great Society
- Johnson's programs
- Fidel Castro
- Cuban dictator...
- Counterculture
- Hippies - Haight-Ashbury (SF, CA) was the capital, Woodstock was the high point
- VISTA
- Volunteers In Service To America - a domestic Peace Corps
- Flexible Response
- Kennedy's strategy for keeping options open for international crises
- SNCC
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - students throughout the south
- Medicaid
- health care to the needy
- New Frontier
- the name of Kennedy's programs
- Bay of Pigs
- (1) uprising led by Fidel Castro, overthrowing Fulgencio Batista (2) Castro established communist dictatorship w/ ties to Soviet Union (3) Anti-Castro Cuban refugees invade Cuba (trained and financed by CIA) (4) disastrous - at the last minute Kennedy vetoed direct US involvement and didn't send naval or air support ***Kennedy takes the blame for failed invasion***
- British Invasion
- Rolling Stones, the Beatles
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- NONVIOLENT Church-based Af-Am group dedicated to ending discrimination (Led by MLKj)
- Generation Gap
- differences in culture (mainstream & hippies)
- Malcolm X
- led Black Power Movement - focused on gaining economic & political power (by force if needed)
- Headstart
- low-income preschoolers
- Omnibus Housing Act
- 1968 - millions for urban renewal
- Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- 1963 - US, Soviet Union, Britain, agree to stop testing nuclear weapons
- Woodstock
- Bethel, NY -500,000 attended -high point of hippie movement -Hendrix, the Who, Led Zeppelin
- Freedom Summer
- campaign to register Af-Am voters
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- barred discrimination in employment and public accomodations and gave the justice department the power to bring lawsuits to enforce school desegregation
- Peace Corps
- sent volunteers to work in developing countries for 2 years