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- Immigration Act 1965
- repplaces the varying quotas with a limit of 20000 immigrants per year from any one country outside the W. Hemisphere
- Vietnam
- north- communist south - noncommunist
- 1964 election
- Johnson- landslide victory
- Alliance for Progress
- a vast cooperative effort to satisfy the basic needs of people in N. C. and S. America for homes, work, land, health, and schools
- Miranda Rule
- rule stating: police must inform accused persons that they have the right to remain silent; that anything they say can be used against them in court; they have the right to an attorney
- Fidel Castro
- communist ruler of Cuba
- Barry Goldwater
- senator of AZ who LBJ beat in the election
- Landslide Linden
- LBJ's nickname due to his small marginal win of 87 votes
- Escobedo vs. Illinois
- ruled that accused indeividuals had to be given access to an attorney while being questioned
- Limited Test Ban Treaty
- agreement which banned nuclear testing above the ground
- quarantine
- what kennedy called the "blockade" around Cuba
- Head Start
- a preschool program for children from low-income families that also provides healthcare, nutrition services, and social services
- Berlin Crisis
- Berlin was fought over for who controlled which sect. of the country
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- a terrifying standoff between the US and the Soviet Union that brought the superpowers to the brink of the nuclear war
- Berlin Wall
- symbol of the Cold War, built to seperate Communist and non-Communist Berlin
- Mapp vs. Ohio
- established the exclusionary rule, which states that evidence seized illegally cannot be used in trial
- Baker vs. Carr
- declared that state legislative districts had to be divided on the basis of "one man, one vote" and prevented the party in power from drawing district lines in unfair ways to give itself more potential votes
- Gideon vs. Wainwright
- stated that suspects in criminal cases who could not afford a lawyer had the right to free legal aid
- apportionment
- the distribution if the seats in a legislature among electoral districts.
- medicare
- provides hospital and low-cost medical insurance of most Americans age 65 and older.
- Johnson's tax cut
- caused the Gross National Product to rise and unemplyement fell and inflation remained in check
- Roth vs. US
- ruled that obscene materials were "utterly without redeeming social importance"
- Peace Corps
- program which sent volunteers abroad as educators, health workers, and technicians to help developiing nations around the world
- Great Society
- LBJ's proposals to relieve poverty, aid education, healtchare, aavoting rights, and several other major legislatives initiatives
- daisy campaign
- a comercial series whcih showed Goldwater's clear position on nuclear war
- Reynolds vs. Sims
- The supreme court held that state legislative districts not based on the "one man, one vote: formula violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment
- VISTA
- Volunteers in Service to America -- sent volunteers to help people in poor communities.
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- failed invasion of Cuba by a group of anti-Castro forces
- medicaid
- provides low cost health insurance coverage to poor Americans of any age who cannot afford their own private health insurance
- Dominican Republic
- a Carribean nation close to Cuba
- Warren Court
- supreme court under it Cheif Justice Earl Warren