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| 13488147575 | New Frontier | The campaign program advocated by JFK in the 1960 election. He promised to revitalize the stagnant economy and enact reform legislation in education, health care, and civil rights. | 0 | |
| 13488147576 | Cuban Missle Crisis (1962) | Standoff between John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in October 1962 over Soviet plans to install nuclear weapons in Cuba. Although the crisis was ultimately settled in America's favor and represented a foreign-policy triumph for Kennedy, it brought the world superpowers perilously close to the brink of nuclear confrontation. | 1 | |
| 13488147577 | Peace Corps | (JFK) , volunteers who help third world nations and prevent the spread of communism by getting rid of poverty, Africa, Asia, and Latin America | 2 | |
| 13488147578 | Malcolm X | 1952; renamed himself X to signify the loss of his African heritage; converted to Nation of Islam in jail in the 50s, became Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter; his beliefs were the basis of a lot of the Black Power movement built on seperationist and nationalist impulsesto achieve true independence and equality | 3 | |
| 13488147579 | Stokely Carmichael | a black civil rights activist in the 1960's. Leader of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. He did a lot of work with Martin Luther King Jr.but later changed his attitude. Carmichael urged giving up peaceful demonstrations and pursuing black power. He was known for saying,"black power will smash everything Western civilization has created." | 4 | |
| 13488147580 | Freedom Summer | In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote. Missouri | 5 | |
| 13488147581 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | 6 | |
| 13488147582 | Berlin Wall | A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world. | 7 | |
| 13488147583 | Apollo | god of music, poetry, prophecy, and medicine | 8 | |
| 13488147584 | Voter Education Project | project of the SNCC where volunteers went to rural areas in the Deep South to register African Americans to vote; began with Robert Moses | 9 |
