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- had ties to mafia and killed Oswald and started the big consperacy
- Ruby
- Prez nicknamed was Ike and wifes nickname was Mamie, 1st thing he did was high way act
- Eisenhower
- in ohio students protest, ohio national guard is called in with rifles and tear gas ready to use. Guardsmen fired into the sutdents with out an order to fire and killed 4 and wounded 10
- Kent State
- was when the north koreans which were communistis invaded south korea which were democratic
- Korean War
- big for commericials and entertainment families could see president speech and watch shows
- TV
- u.s and soviet union nver fight face to face but help each other countries fight each other
- cold war
- bring in bussinesses like fast food and drive in movies and easy transoptation
- Cars change society
- he was in Texas in a parade with wife and was shot through the neck and the head
- Kennedy assasinated
- a day after United Nations and Republic of Korea forces began the offensive they expected would complete the unification of Korea, Communist China countered with a terrific, and very successful offensive of its own. Within a few days, the Chinese onslaught reversed the UN/ROK northward drive in central and western North Korea, devastating several South Korean divisions, badly tearing up the U.S. Second Division and forcing the rest of the UN command to rapidly withdraw southwards to escape destruction.
- Chinesse offensive
- building of low income houseing and making loans easier
- HOusing developers
- soviet union wanted all of berlin so they blockaded it in hopes the U.S. would surrendor it to them but they sent in an airlift to help the people with food water and supplies
- Berlin airlift
- limited presidents war power. President has to come to congress 48 hours before he sends troops anywhere. Troops are to be there for 60-90 days unless Congress has a say
- War Powers Act
- creates a communist organization in Vietnam
- Ho Chi Minh
- U.S. were surrounded and had to fight there way wout and wait for help
- La Drang Valley
- June 25 1950
- date N. Korea invades South Korea
- organization that send Americans to poverty stricken countries to help them
- Peace Corp
- no descrimination in workplace, gov. could go after school systems that did not de segregate and Desegregation of Public Schools
- Civil Rights act
- 1969
- date ordered withdraw of 25,000 troops
- November 22 1963
- date Kennedy was shot
- Kennedys plan was to increase in education and health care and help economy by lowering debt
- New Frontier
- November 1950- January of 1951
- date of the Chinnesse offensive
- Soviet 1st satillite to space
- Sputnik
- July 27 1953
- date of Korean aggreement reached
- American military and the ROK complemented by air and naval superiority held the North Koreans
- Pusan Perimeter
- became president after Kennedys death and was a former Texas politician did the great society and civil rights laws
- Johnson
- agent orange and Napalm
- Two ways destroy jungles in Vietname
- was U.S. first satiliite in space
- Explorer 1
- do not let communist spread was speech by trueman
- Containment
- 200 billion dollars
- Cost of the Vietnam war
- 2 advisors to help Johnson with decesions of war
- McNamara Bundy
- 2canadites run John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon and Kennedy won because of charm
- Election of 1960
- went to college camposes and big cities and had sit ins and rallies
- Anti war movement
- Nixon, Humphrey and wallace were running. Wallace won a lot of southern votes but Nixon got elected because he said he had a plan to end the war
- Election of 1968
- french defeat and then they left and made peace with Vietnam
- Die Bien Phu
- Fidel Castro overthrows the cuban government and takes it over. Gets Friendship with Soviet Union and Eisenhower told CIA to train and arm cuban people known as the La Brisada to invade the island but it failed
- Bay of Pigs
- health care for low income families
- Medicade
- residential areas on the outskirts of a city and were very popular in the 50s with families
- Suburbs
- 1965
- date of Voting Rights Act
- October to November of 1950
- date chinnesse were pushed to the river
- 1973
- date of Prisoner exchange with Vietnam
- June to Sept 1950
- date of Pusan Perimeter
- North Atlantic Treat Organization= made up of 12 countries the main objective is military and economic aid to Europe
- NATO
- arrested and accused of killing president Kennedy and had connections to Soviet Union
- Oswald
- said there was going to be civil war in Vietname so he sends money, military and supplies
- What Kennedy did with Vietname
- 2 Vietcon torpedo boats fried on 2 U.S. ships in the gulf
- Gulf of Tonkin
- January 30 1968
- date of Tet Offensive
- had a cease fire and aggreed to split Korea communist and democratic
- Korean aggreement to end war
- financial aid to vetreans, able to go to college, buy home and build business
- GI Bill
- Got us in the Vietnam war becuase of the 2 boats fired on
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolultion
- October 28 1962
- date Cuban Missle crisis ended
- all consumer products must have informetable lables
- Fair packaging and labeling act
- people did not like Johnson after this and wanted to end the war
- Opinion of President after Tet Offensive
- made of 50 countries wanted world peace and also split germany
- United Nations
- increase in baby population every a baby was born every 30 seconds
- Baby boom
- were people against the war movement in Vietnam
- Doves
- the draft was to send men into war at the age of 18, but some people who were against it burned there draft cards
- Draft
- 1964
- date of Civil Rights act
- after the PUsan perimeter the North Koreans were weak and suddenly confronted a threat in its rear from the U.S. marines who were there to take the capitol and North Korea supply lines they had to move a few hours a day and the capitol was taken
- inchon
- October 22 1962
- date Cuban missle crisis began
- tried to fight communism in Vietnam but failed
- France
- Closet to us coming to fight soviet union. Spy planes took pics of missles in cuba Kennedy put a naval blockade to stop ships from delevering missles also told Cuba to destroy launch sites and warned if a weapon was launched against the U.S. they would respond fully. Work continued on Missle Sites. Through negotiations Soviet Union offered a deal, Cuba would remove missles if U.S. did not invade cuba and took missles out of Turkey
- Cuban Missle Crisis
- 1950-1953
- dates of Korean War
- was Nixons nations securitary advisor
- Kissinger
- do away with pollution
- Clean air and water
- 1975
- Date when N. Vietname troops invade the south
- the North invades the south and the south ask for help but U.S. decline
- North Vietname invades south again
- 58,000 U.S. deaths but 3000,000 wounded
- Deaths of Vietnam war
- 54,000 deaths of U.S. troops
- total deaths in Korean war
- told people that the enemy was on the verge of defeat but then vietknon glaunded a huge supprise attack on every major city and base of allies
- Tet Offensive
- U.S. troops went to a village in North Vietnam and killed 200 people with women and children
- My Lai
- health care for eldarly and funded 1.45% of pay
- Medicare
- pre- school program for dissadvantaged children
- headstart
- 1970
- date of end of fighting in Vietnam
- 1945
- year UN was formed
- national arronotics space administration
- NASA
- government documents that were leaked to the press. These documents showed how President Johnson and Nixon with out the go ahead from Congress and how they were hiding things
- Pentagon Papers
- was heavy fighting in the 3rd parallel
- Iron Triangel and Punch Bowl
- was people for the Vietnam war
- Hawk
- said if any one attacks U.S. then we would attack back
- Mass retaliation
- were North Vietnese soilders who fought with Gurrela warefare style
- Vietcong
- the U.S. start bombing bases and supply lines at N. Vietnam
- operation Rolling Thunder
- was presidents general in the war who told him what was going on
- Westmoreland
- illegal to interfere with someones voting
- Voting Rights Act
- 1972
- date U.S. withdraws troops in Viethnam