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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

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