History Exam 3, 4
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- "daisy girl ad"
- aired on TV against goldwater, scarred americans and they voted for johnson
- Civil rights act of 1964
- forbid job discrimination, prohibited any discrimination in public facilities
- hubert humphry
- Johnsons vice president and was running for president, is a democrat, election of 1968
- barry goldwater
- accused Johnson of being soft, was johnson's opponent in the election of 1964
- paris peace accord of jan. 27, 1973
- it re-establishes the 17th parallel in Vietnam
- black nationalism
- a belief in the separate identity and racial unity of the African American community
- voting rights act of 1965
- federal oversight over all elections in the south, removed discriminatory measures so blacks could vote
- "the great society"
- social programs: National endowment for the arts, museums, education facilities, endowment for humanities
- Gen. william westmoreland
- he requested more military aid in S.Vietnam
- "bloody sunday" on march 7, 1965
- when the freedom marchers were attacked by the police and americans saw this happen on TV
- Freedom march from selma to montgomery, AL in march 1965
- march to promote voting for blacks
- "war on poverty"
- to eradicate poverty: medicare and medicaid, expanded social security, HUD, food stamp program, free legal aid to the poor
- nixon doctrine
- the U.S. will not do the majority of fighting in countries threatened by communism, will provide aid
- richard nixon
- Republican running in the election of 1968, he wins
- gulf of tonkin resolution of 1964
- gave Johnson unlimited power to deal with this problem, he didn't need a declaration of war
- the "Johnson Treatment"
- a saying for how Johnson got what he wanted always
- gulf of tonkin incident of aug. 2-4, 1964
- U.S. ship was fired upon by the N. Vietnamese
- robert kennedy on June 5, 1968
- was running for the election of 1968 when he was assassinated by a palastinian
- James earl ray
- convicted of killing Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and sentenced to 99 years in jail
- malcolm x
- was for black rights but in a violent way if necessary
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- sworn into the presidency after JFK died