29.2-29.3 history vocab
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- great society
- a series of major legislative initiatives bills
- Reynolds v. Sims
- 1964 desion that the state legislative districts was unconstitional
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- 1963 ruling in which a legal aid would be provided if the suspects could nt aford one
- Cuban misssile crisis
- Standoof between US and Soviet Union offer nuclear bombs (brink of nuclear war)
- Bay of Pigs invasion
- April 17 1961 attack to destroy cuba airforce bases
- Berlin crisis
- Soviet union attempted cut off access to its zone of germany
- Miranda Rule
- police officers must read rights to to accused person
- Mapp v. Ohio
- 1961 trial in which evidence gathered illegally could not be used in trials
- Fidel Castro
- new communist leader of cuba
- medicaid
- provided low cost insurance to poor americans
- Limited test ban treaty
- banned nuclear testing above ground
- peace corps
- kennedys hope for a peaceful nations (this program sent voluunteers abroad)
- Landslide johnson
- joking nickname give to Johnson after winning seat in senate be small margin
- warren court
- supreme court during Kennedy Johnson era
- 1964 election daisy campaign
- campaign commercial showing a girl getting hit by a nuclear bomb( showing how Goldwater's radical views)
- head start
- preschool program for chidren of low income families
- Dominican Republic
- place in caribbean were rebels had taken over
- immigration act 1965
- replaced quotas with a limit of 20,000 immigrants
- Berlin wall
- wall built to ut of acess from berlin by soviet union( symbol of cold war)
- Alliance for progress
- The alliance to satisfy the basic needs of people in the americas
- medicare
- provided medicall insurance to most americans
- Vietnam
- place were Johnson tried to stop communism in south vietnam
- johnson's tax cut
- johnsons plan to cut taxes(had to agree to cut government spending)
- barry goldwater
- Republican senator from arizona who ran against johnson in the 1964 election
- Escobedo v. Illinois
- 1964 justice ruling in which suspects had to be given access to atorney
- apportionment
- the distribution of the seats in legislature
- vista
- sent voluteers to help people in poor communties
- Roth v. US
- 1957 case trying to define obscenity
- Baker v. Carr
- 1962 desicion on the concept that everymans vote counts just as much no matter where there from
- quarantine
- a blockaid of the ship carrying nuclear bombs to cuba