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5709447303Election of 1960John F Kennedy - 43, Roman Catholic, Massachusetts Senator Richard Nixon - Vice President for Eisenhower0
5709456814What helped JFK win the election?1st televised presidential debate1
5709476278Bay of Pigs InvasionFailed attempt by CIA and Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro2
5709491952Cuban Missile Crisis started by what country?Soviet Union and Nikita Khrushchev3
5709499142Cuban Missile Crisis almost started what?Nuclear War4
5709507330US prepared what to prevent Cuban Missile Crisis?Blockade Cuba 100,000 troops waiting in Florida to invade Cuba5
5709516394Cuban Missile Crisis agreementsSoviets remove Cuban missiles America not to invade Cuba America remove missiles in Turkey6
5709526957Berlin Wall put up why?Stop flow of refugees from East to West Berlin7
5709534217AIMAmerican Indian Movement; protecting Natives' rights & defense against police brutality8
5709547539Hippie Era CharacteristicsIllegal Drugs (marijuana & LSD) Rock n Roll Music Sexual Licenses Eastern Religions9
5709934516Woodstockfamous hippie concert10
5709938238Countercultureanti-society, non-conformists hippies/flower children11
5709554202Musicians/Bands of 60sJimi Hendrix Janis Joplin The Beatles The Beach Boys Bob Dylan12
5709568137TV Shows of 60sMission:Impossible Addams Family Beverly Hillbillies Dick van Dyke Show13
5709572949Mapp V Ohioevidence seized illegally could not be used in court or exclusionary rule14
5709577816Gideon v Wainwrightprovided free attorney to those who can't afford it15
5709626808Escobedo v Illinoisright to lawyer present during police questioning16
5709626809Miranda v Arizonasuspect must be read rights before questioning17
5709629779Roe v Waderight to an abortion during 1st 3 months of pregnancy18
5709661429John F Kennedy1961-1963 Democrat Jackie JFK19
5709665674Kennedy FactsPresidency Nickname - Camelot Only Catholic President Youngest Elected at 43 Many Affairs - famously Marilyn Monroe20
5709675969Kennedy EventsBay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis New Frontier NASA Berlin Wall Vietnam Civil Rights Robert Kennedy - Attorney General Peace Corps Warren Commission21
5709695820Kennedy Quote"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country"22
5709686759Kennedy AssassinationDallas, Texas 11/22/63 shot by Lee Harvey Oswald23
5709752713Lincoln and Kennedy SimilaritesBoth: -shot in head -shot on Friday -sat by wives when shot -had VP's named Johnson Lincoln rode in Kennedy Carriage to Ford's Theater Kennedy rode in a Lincoln Continental24
5709717119Lyndon B Johnson1963-1969 Democrat Claudia/Lady Bird LBJ25
5709722853LBJ EventsCivil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1968 24th Amendment Space Program continued VISTA Great Society War on Poverty Vietnam26
5710260062Medicare & MedicaidMedicare - helps elderly over 65 Medicaid - poor citizens under 6527
5710264753HUD(Housing and Urban Developement) New cabinet office for helping cities like building low rent housing to replace ghettos28
5710283574Operation Headstartpreschool for children in poor families -to give them a headstart in being better students29
5710293452Job Corpshelps high school dropouts get jobs30
5709736500Election of 1964LBJ v Barry Goldwater (R) - won by landslide and known as Landslide Lyndon31
5709914231MLK Assassinationon 1968 in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray32
5709920077Robert Kennedy Assassinationon 1968 in Los Angeles, CA by Sirhan Sirhan33
5709929421Election of 1968Hubert Humphrey - Democrat - LBJ's VP Richard Nixon - Republican Main issue - Vietnam34
5710026435Why did Nixon win Election?promise to end Vietnam35
5710082924Freedom Riders were part of...?CORE (Congress On Racial Equality)36
5710086092March on Washingtoncivil right supporters on a protest march in DC televised in America MLK gave his I Have A Dream speech37
57101491241st Sit In Occurred where?Greensboro, NC38
571015753324th Amendmentoutlaws poll taxes39
5710161604Civil Rights Act of 1964no jim crow laws/outlaws discrimination40
5710161605Voting Rights Act of 1965outlawed literary test41
5710174163Civil Rights Act of 1968federal law for fair housing42
5710180235Black Muslimsbelieved: -blacks seperate from whites -blacks proud of their own & have their own religion meet violence with violence by any means necessary43
5710203337Black Power Movementwanted pride in black race44
5710214174Black Panthersblacks control their own communities and use violence to end white control in black communities45
5710224517Race RiotsWhat: blacks burning and smashing city blocks of poor housing and old stores Why: because angry and tried for civil rights46
5710248263Watts RiotsWhat: 6 days of fights, fires, etc. Why: want civil rights now47

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