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1968 Democratic Convention: this was held in a hotel in Chicago where delegates voted down a peace resolution and seemed ready to nominate John's former vice, Hubert Humphrey, when protesters gathered for a rally outside. Police beat/arrested them to break up the crowd as the violence was caught on film. The Democrats still elected Humphrey
Stokeley Carmichael: He was a black activist as member of CORE. As the movement progressed, he started to become more militant creating the cry of black power.
Brinkmanship: the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety)
Civil Rights Act- 1964: LBJ barred discrimination in public places, outlawed discrimination for employment, protection for voting rights
ARVN: Army of the Republic of South Vietnam
Rock N Roll: form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s
New Fronteir: area from mississippi to rockys to pacific ocean
Allen Ginsburg: American poet poem Howl
Woodstock: 3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969
Ho Chi Minh: Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)
Black Panthers: a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites
Free Speech Movement: led by college students fighting the restrictions aganist free speech
Malcolm X: black power spokesman who was Muslim as well. He was assassinated in 1965 after writing an autobiography.
War Powers Act: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress passed it, granting the President unprecedented authority
John Foster Dulles: United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959)
1968 Election: after all of the turbulent events of 1968, America experienced a conservative backlash. George Wallace gained support as a third-party candidate But Nixon, returning from a loss in the last election ran successfully on a vision of stability, law and order, government reattachment, and peace with honor in Vietnam. Despite a last minute serge by Humphrey, Nixon pulled out a slight victory.
John F. Kennedy: US President 1960-1963
Affirmative action: a policy that requires most employers take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discriminations
Containment: A goal to stop the spread of communism. The US had to use military and non military actions to stop the spread.
Jackie Robinson: the first African-American major league baseball player who broke the color barrier
Pentagon Papers: President tried to prevent the Times from publishing articles about his conduct of the Vietnam War. Congress ruled the President would be in violation of the 1st Amendment
Truman Doctrine: President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
CRP: Committee for the re-election of the president headed by John Mitchell. Handled everything to get Nixon re-elected including hiring "plumbers".
Berlin Airlift: airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
The Beatles: A British band that came over to America in 1961
Jimi Hendrix: United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970)
Sit Ins: to protest at lunch counters that served only whites, African Americans students began staging this
Roe v. Wade: '73 Supreme ct decision that stuck down 46 state laws restricting women's access to abortion (highlighted divisions within women's mvmt
Franchise: a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
Dixiecrats: a member of a group of southern demcrats who formed states rights party in 1948.
Sesame Street: educated children November 10, 1969,
George Kennan: Published "Foreign Affairs" where he provided an analysis of soviet intentions. Suggested "containment"of Russian expansion.
Detente: relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China
Modern Rebublicanism: Idea for Nixons Campaign
Agent Orange: a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas
Consumer Culture: A culture that is permeated by consumerism
Phyllis Schlafly: Author and political activist known for her criticism of feminism and the equal rights amendment.
Richard Nixon: Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States-resigned after watergate scandal
Beat Movement: expressed social/ literary nonconformity of artists
Ngo Dinh Diem: South Vietnam non-Communist leader
Busing: achieving racial balance by transporting students to schools across neighborhood boundaries
Perestroika: A policy of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the Soviet economy by opening it up to more free enterprise
Great Society: President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.
Marilyn Monroe: United States film actress noted for sex appeal (1926-1962)
White Flight: immigration of white americans to suburb neighborhoods-EXCLUDING minorities
Potsdam Conference: the final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdam, outside of Berlin, in July 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe, but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War.
Little Rock 9: incident in which troops helped integrate a high school
Alliance for progress: 1961-63; JFK economic policy towards S.America
NASA: an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight
Brown v. Board of Ed: overruling Plessy v Ferguson, integration of schools
Social Conformity: conforming to the social norm like in ways homes were built
Lyndon B. Johnson: Pres after kennedy, Civil rights and Vietnam
La Raza Unida: means the united people and was formed to get better jobs, pay, education, and housing for Mexican Americans
New Left: college campus mass protest movements and radical leftist movements
Limited Test Ban Treaty: prohibits nuclear weapons tests "or any other nuclear explosion" in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water
Federal Communications Commission: approved plan for free tv time to major presidential candidates only
SCLC/ SNCC: non violent protests against racism and segregation
Hawks: People who advocated waging war.
Ed Sullivan: United States host on a well known television variety show (1902-1974)
Bob Dylan: United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)
Harry S. Truman: vice president became president after roosvelt's death, had to decide whether the u.s. should use atomic bomb
Doves: those who opposed the war
Bay of Pigs Invasion: US invasion of Cuba, Humiliating disaster for JFK
Warren Commission: The body that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy
Chuck Berry: inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986
"I Like Ike": Slogan for Eisenhower
Gloria Steinem: journalist, founded Ms. Magasine which provided women with different veiwpoints
Voting Rights Act- 1965: eliminated the literary tests that had disqualified many voters
Betty Friedan: United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)
Orval Faubus: The Governor who opposed the integration of Central High, Sent the Little Rock National Guard to keep them out. Then gave them no protection at all.
Fannie Lou Hamer: organizer of the freedom summer campaine
Termination Policy: 1953 gov eliminated economic support for native americans, stopped reservation system, redistributed tribal support
Counterculture: a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
Rebel Without a Cause: story of a rebellious teenager expose the rift between two generations
Napalm: Type of Weapon used in vietnam
Freedom Rides: 1961- traveled on buses across the South to protest segregation on busing
Motown: refers to Detroit - "motor town" where the cars are built
Loyalty Review Board: Overt manifestation of Red Scare "security risk" govt employees (hundreds) fired
Realpolitik: realistic politics based on the needs for the state
Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon's men resigned due to the Watergate scandal unfolding
De Facto: existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not
De Jure: by right by law
MLK assassination: assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 sparked riots
Julius $ Ethel Rosenburg: HUsband And Wife acussed tried and executed for giving commys Us secrets
Kennedy assassination: Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas 1963
Geneva Summit: 1958; Meeting of Britain, France, US, and the Soviet Union to help resolve their differences; Largely failed
Southern Strategy: Nixon set out to attract even more southerners to the Republican Party
Fidel Castro: led the revolution of Cuba and took control of Cuba in 1959; resented past dictators; made Cuba communist
Nikita Krushchev: Leader of the Soviet union during the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He and President Kennedy signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, temporarily easing Cold War tensions.
Planned Obsolescence: the intentional changing of styles to create a new market
Francis Gary Powers: pilot of an american U-2 spy plane
Mass Media: Those means of communication that reach large audiences, especially television, radio, printed publications, and the Internet
Flexible Response: the buildup of conventional troops and weapons to allow a nation to fight a limited war without using nuclear weapons
Credibility Gap: The gap between the Johnson Administration and the American public support
Joseph McCarthy: United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
Mao Zedong: Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)
Urban Renewal: the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums
Rolling Thunder: Begins Feb.1965;Vietnam, Aerial Bombardment
American Indian Movement: drew support from urban areas and reservations indian nationalism and intertribal unity
Berlin Wall: a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
Montgomery Bus Boycotts: bus boycott in alabama that lasted for 20 days resulted in desegregation of buses
China & Moscow: Both Communist Poerhouses in difference with the US
Equal Rights Amendment: constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender
U2 Incident: the downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
James Meredith: United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
Chiang Kai-Shek: Anit-Communist Group of China
Vietnamization: withdrawing U.S. troops and emphasizing asitional responsiblilites of South Vietnam
NATO: an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
Black Power: the belief that blacks should fight back if attacked. it urged blacks to achieve economic independence by starting and supporting their own business.
Truman's Fair Deal: extension of new deal goals;promoted full employment, higher minimum wage,greater social security, and housing assistance
Rosa Parks: United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913)
HUAC: House Un-American Activities Committee
1960 Presidential Debates: 26 September 1960 first televised debate
Cuban Missle Crisis: the russians were bringing missles to cuba, this brought the world the clostest its ever been to nucular war
Baby Boom: the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
Jonas Salk: American scientist who found a way to 'kill' Polio virus to allow immunizations of polio
Freedom Summer: young northern students try to get blacks registered to vote, meet with resistance
Economic Opportunity Act: An economic legislation that was part of the Great Society. It created many social programs to help the poor.
Suburbs: outlying communities to big cities
Vietcong: the guerrilla soldiers of the Communist faction in Vietnam
Glasnost: a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems
Peace Corps: a civilian organization sponsored by the United States government - Kennedy
Henry Kissinger: United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
Jack Kerouac: United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969)
Medicare: The 1965 Medicare Act provided Social Security funding for hospitalization insurance for people over age 65 and a voluntary plan to cover doctor bills paid in part by the federal government.
Martin Luther King Jr.: AfricanAmerican civil rights leader
Kent State Incident: shooting of students(protesting invasion of cambodia) by members of the Ohio National Guard
Students For a Democratic Society: a group of college students who joined together to protest the war
Plessy v Ferguson: Decision that permitted segreated facilities
Watts Riots: riot which lasted six days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California,
Cesar Chavez: United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927)
New Federalism: Nixon's presidential plan, decrease the size and influence of the Federal Government
NAACP: worked to gain equal rights for African Americans
Korean War: The conflict that followed the crossing of the 38th parrelle by the North Korean Forces. Truman viewed this conflict as a test case for his containment policy.
My Lai Massacre: Happened in a small village in South Vietnam thought to be sheltering Viet Cong was raided by American troops
Marshall Plan: a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
Living Room War: Reffering to the close relationshiop of Americans to the war in Vietnam
Dean Rusk: American Secretary of State from 1961-1969. Rusk was very militant, advocating military force in combating communism.
UFWOC: union of farmworkers rights organization
Alger HIss: state department offical. was accused of giving secret government documents to the Soviets
CIA: a US agency created to gather secret information about forgein government(formed after WWII, replaces USSS)
Strategic Defense Initiative: This was Regan's proposed high-tech, anti-nuclear missile, defense system. It was said to be scientiffically impossible. It was nicknamed "Star Wars."
United Nations: an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
Interstate Highway System: Ike backed the interstate highway act of 1956, a $27 billion plan to build forty-two thousand miles of sleek, fast motorways.
Geneva Accords: agreement that divided Vietnam into North and South
McCarthyism: unfairly accusing others of disloyalty and subversion
Hot Line: direct telephone link created by Kennedy and Kruschev to allow leaders to communicate instantly in times of crisis
Tonkin Gulf Resolution: This gave the president authority to take "all neccessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the United States."
Robert McNamara: secretary of Defense sent to Vietnam on fact-finding mission
Silent Majority: that group of quiet honest hard-working middle class Americans who do their job, respect their country and support gov.; Nixon wants their votes in 1968 and 1972
Domino Theory: the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
Easy Rider: 1969 road movie two bikers travel the south
William Westmoreland: American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968
Hollywood 10: • Ten people were accused of being a spies but refused to testify and were sent to prison
Mikhail Gorbachev: Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)
Title IX: Cannot discriminate based on sex
SALT I&II: Treaty signed in 1972 between the U.S. and the USSR. This agreement limited the number of missiles in each nation and led to the SALT II discussions and a slowdown of the arms race between the two countries.
War on Poverty: President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's to provide greater social services for the poor and elderly
Eisenhower Doctrine: policy of the US that it would defend the middle east against attack by any communist country
Camelot: word used to describe kennedy's way of handling the nation
Satellite Nations: Nations in Europe held under Soviet domination
Wemons Roles in the 50's: Domestic housewife
Vietnam Memorial: war memorial located in Washington, D.C., that honors members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War
Warsaw Pact: treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
Civil Rights Act-1968: Further Action towards Voting and political freedom of Blacks, Jim Crow Laws abolished
Andy Warhol: United States artist who was a leader of the pop art movement (1930-1987)
Iron Curtain: a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
National Organization For Women: goal to eliminate gender stereotypes; gain political and economic power
Family Assistance Plan: make welfare recipients more responsible for their lives
Stagflation: a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation)
Hungarian Uprising: Nagy declared hungary's independence on November 1, 1956. The red army came in and made Kadar leader
38th Parallel: line of latitude that separated North and South Korea
Tet Offensive: surprise attacks on cities all over South Vietnam
MLK March on Washington: resulted in public awareness and the "I have a dream speech"
Hippies: a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s
Elvis Presley: United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977)
the Graduate: college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced
Central HS, Little Rock: 9 AA students volunteered to integrate this school
Thurgood Marshall: First Black Supreme Court Justice
James Dean: United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)
Kerner Commission: federal commision that investigated the 1960's riots and blamed them on whit racism
Dwight Eisenhower: United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany
Watergate Scandal: the break in at the Democratic National Commitee headquarters in 1972 that led to President Nixon's resignation; a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice
Nixon Tapes: a collection of recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and various White House staffice in February 1971
Fall of Saigon: North Vietnam Captures Saigon the capital of the south
MacArthur: took charge of U.S. occupation of Japan/ developed island hopping strategy
Suez War: Nasser siezes the British and French-owned Suez canal, closes it to israeli shipping. JULY 1956
Segregation: the act of segregating or sequestering

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