us history 1959-1975
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- Who is john f kennedy
- president of us from 1960-1962. campaigned domestic reforms-"new frontier". assassinated by lee harvey oswald.
- who was richard m nixon
- run for us president against j f kennedy. reemerged as the spokesman("silent majority"). vision of stability, law and order, gov't retrenchment, and " peace with honor" in vietnam.
- who was joseph kennedy
- father of j f kennedy. former american ambassador to britain. run for president. was assasssinated.
- the new frontier
- kennedy's set of domestic reforms. tariff reductions. legislative agenda. promote economic growth.
- lyndon b johnson
- became president of u.s. after kennedy's assassintion. started war on poverty. reform program "great society".
- lee harvey oswald
- assassinated kennedy. he was assassinated by jack ruby.
- the warren commission
- put together after kennedy was assassinated. named after chief justice earl warren.
- the great society
- johnson's reform program. increased federal spending. reduced hunger in u.s. made medical care available to elderly and poor people.
- barry goldwater
- coservative senator from arizona. carried arizona and another five states in the deep south.record democratic majorities in both houses of congress.
- medicare
- provide federal aid to the elderly for medical expenses.
- medicaid
- extended federal medical assistance to welfare recipients and other indigent people of all ages.
- office of economic opporunities
- center poece of "war on poverty".
- "war on poverty"
- johnson's reform which created office of economic opportunities.
- community action
- an effort to involve members of poor comunities themselves in the planing and administration of the programs designed to help them. provided jobs and gave experience in administrative and political work.
- housing act of 1961
- offered money for the preservation of open spaces, the development of mass-transit systems, and the subsidization of middle-income housing.
- department of housing and urban development
- johnson's cabinet agency wich inaugurated the model cities program.
- robert weaver
- first african american secretary in the department of housing and urban development.
- model cities
- johnson's program which offered federal subsidies for urban redevelopment pilot programs.
- elementary and secondary education act of 1965
- based the aid on the economic conditions of the students, not on the needs of the schools themselves.
- immigration act of 1965
- limited the number of newcomers admitted to the cvountry each year. eliminated the "national origins" system.
- woolworth sit-in
- black students in greensboro, nc, staged sit-in. following months such demonstrations spread throughout the south. it formed sncc.
- sncc-student nonviolent coordinating committee
- student branch of martin luther king, jr's southern christian leadership council. worked to keep the spirit of resistance alive.
- sclc-southern christian leadership conference
- martin luther king, jr's interracial group.faced competition from radical groups.
- core-congress of racial equality
- begun "freedom rides". mobilizied mass popular resistance to discrimaination.
- "freedom rides"
- students traveled by bus throughout the south. they tried to force the desegration of bus stations.
- martin luther king, jr.
- was a part of "freedom rides". leader of civil rights movement. gave a speech in front of the lincoln memorial in washington, d.c. "i have a dream". was assassinated.
- eugene "bull" connor
- police commissioner. supervised a brutal effoty yo break up peacful marches.
- birmingham bombing
- four african american children killed during black church bombing
- march on washington
- martin luther king, jr's speech "i have a dream". generate support for the legislation, dramatize the power of the growing movement.
- "freedom summer"
- worked on behalf of black voter registration and participation.
- andrew goodman
- one of three first freedom workers. was murdered.
- michael schwerner
- one of first three freedom workers that were murdered.
- james chaney
- one of first three freedom workers that were murdered.
- mississipppi freedom democratic party-mfdp
- challenged the regular party's right to its seats at the democratic national convention.
- frannie lou hamer
- leader of mfdp
- selma march
- press for the right of black to register to vote.
- voting rights act of 1965
- johnson's act which provided federal protection to african americans attemting to exercise their right to vote.
- watts riot
- most serious race riot since ww2.it trigered a storm of anger and a week of violence.
- commission on civil disorders
- created by johnson in response to the riots. issued spending to eliminate conditions of the getthoes.
- "black power"
- suggested a shift away from the goal of assimilation and toward increased awareness of racial distinctiveness.
- black panthers
- the most radical expressions of the black-power idea.
- malcolm x
- the most celebrated of the black muslims. x to denote his lost african surname. assassinated. major figure in many black communities even after his death.
- berlin wall
- served as the most potent physical symbol of the conflict between the communist and noncommunist worlds.
- rafael trujillo
- assassinated general of dominican republic.
- ngo dinh diem
- leader of south vietnam.waged an effective campaign against some of the powerful religious sects ant the south vietnamese mafia.was assassinated.
- ho chi minh
- stayed behind in the south after the partition. resumed the armed struggle for national unification.
- national liberation front (viet cong)
- an organization closely allied with the north vietnamiese gov't. began military operations in the south, which marked the beginning of vietnam war.
- ngo dinh nhu
- diem's brother and principal adviser. was assassinated.
- gulf of tokin resoliution
- congress authorized the president to "take all necessary measures" to protect american forces and "prevent further agression" in southeast asia.
- pleiku
- american military base. was attacked by communist forces.
- da nang
- two battalions of american marines landed to destroy the flow of north vietnamiese soldiers and supplies into south vietnam.
- "attrition" strategy
- belief that u.s. could inflict more damage on the enemy than the enemy could absorb.
- "pacification"
- strategy to push the viet cong from particular regions and then "pacify" those regions by winning the "hearts and minds" of the people.
- j. william fulbright
- senator from arkansas turned against the war and began to stage highly publicized and occasionally televised congressional hearings to air criticism of it.
- robert mcnamara
- extended the american involment in vietnam.
- clark clifford
- quiet but powerful voice within the administration on behalf of a cautious scaling.
- the tet offensive
- suggested to the american public something of the brutality of the fighting in vietnam.
- eugene mccarhty
- senator of minnesota. a brilliantly orchestred campaign by young volunteers primary by produced a startling showing by maccarhty.
- hubert humphrey
- vice president. began to attract the support of party leaders and of the many delegations the were selected not by popular primaries but by state party organizations.
- james earl ray
- assassinated martin luther king, jr. hired by others.
- sirhan sirhan
- young palestinian enraged remarks robert kennedy made about israel ans shot him.
- 1968 democratic convention
- anti war riots. hubert humphrey was nominated president for democratic party.
- bay of pigs
- it was an attempt to over come castro dictatorship.
- juan bosch
- planned to establish a pro-castro communist regime in the dominican republic.
- medgar evers
- naccp official. was murdered in mississippi.
- george wallace
- governor. stood in the doorway of a building ot the uab to prevent the court ordered enrollment of several black students.
- "alliance for progress"
- kennedy's series of projects for peaceful development and stabilization of the nation.
- "affirmative action"
- the way for employers to prove that they were not discriminating against african americans by making sure that certin amount of blacks were hired.
- "green berets"
- kennedy's special forces trained specifically to fight guerrilla conflicts and other limited wars. first used in vietnam.
- jim clark
- selma sheriff who led local police in a brutal attack on the demonstrators.
- robert f kennedy
- brother o j f kennedy. senator from new york. joined fulbright in opposing johnson's policies. assassinated by sirhan sirhan.