5709447303 | Election of 1960 | John F Kennedy - 43, Roman Catholic, Massachusetts Senator Richard Nixon - Vice President for Eisenhower | 0 | |
5709456814 | What helped JFK win the election? | 1st televised presidential debate | 1 | |
5709476278 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | Failed attempt by CIA and Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro | 2 | |
5709491952 | Cuban Missile Crisis started by what country? | Soviet Union and Nikita Khrushchev | 3 | |
5709499142 | Cuban Missile Crisis almost started what? | Nuclear War | 4 | |
5709507330 | US prepared what to prevent Cuban Missile Crisis? | Blockade Cuba 100,000 troops waiting in Florida to invade Cuba | 5 | |
5709516394 | Cuban Missile Crisis agreements | Soviets remove Cuban missiles America not to invade Cuba America remove missiles in Turkey | 6 | |
5709526957 | Berlin Wall put up why? | Stop flow of refugees from East to West Berlin | 7 | |
5709534217 | AIM | American Indian Movement; protecting Natives' rights & defense against police brutality | 8 | |
5709547539 | Hippie Era Characteristics | Illegal Drugs (marijuana & LSD) Rock n Roll Music Sexual Licenses Eastern Religions | 9 | |
5709934516 | Woodstock | famous hippie concert | 10 | |
5709938238 | Counterculture | anti-society, non-conformists hippies/flower children | 11 | |
5709554202 | Musicians/Bands of 60s | Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin The Beatles The Beach Boys Bob Dylan | 12 | |
5709568137 | TV Shows of 60s | Mission:Impossible Addams Family Beverly Hillbillies Dick van Dyke Show | 13 | |
5709572949 | Mapp V Ohio | evidence seized illegally could not be used in court or exclusionary rule | 14 | |
5709577816 | Gideon v Wainwright | provided free attorney to those who can't afford it | 15 | |
5709626808 | Escobedo v Illinois | right to lawyer present during police questioning | 16 | |
5709626809 | Miranda v Arizona | suspect must be read rights before questioning | 17 | |
5709629779 | Roe v Wade | right to an abortion during 1st 3 months of pregnancy | 18 | |
5709661429 | John F Kennedy | 1961-1963 Democrat Jackie JFK | 19 | |
5709665674 | Kennedy Facts | Presidency Nickname - Camelot Only Catholic President Youngest Elected at 43 Many Affairs - famously Marilyn Monroe | 20 | |
5709675969 | Kennedy Events | Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis New Frontier NASA Berlin Wall Vietnam Civil Rights Robert Kennedy - Attorney General Peace Corps Warren Commission | 21 | |
5709695820 | Kennedy Quote | "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country" | 22 | |
5709686759 | Kennedy Assassination | Dallas, Texas 11/22/63 shot by Lee Harvey Oswald | 23 | |
5709752713 | Lincoln and Kennedy Similarites | Both: -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 Continental | 24 | |
5709717119 | Lyndon B Johnson | 1963-1969 Democrat Claudia/Lady Bird LBJ | 25 | |
5709722853 | LBJ Events | Civil 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 Vietnam | 26 | |
5710260062 | Medicare & Medicaid | Medicare - helps elderly over 65 Medicaid - poor citizens under 65 | 27 | |
5710264753 | HUD | (Housing and Urban Developement) New cabinet office for helping cities like building low rent housing to replace ghettos | 28 | |
5710283574 | Operation Headstart | preschool for children in poor families -to give them a headstart in being better students | 29 | |
5710293452 | Job Corps | helps high school dropouts get jobs | 30 | |
5709736500 | Election of 1964 | LBJ v Barry Goldwater (R) - won by landslide and known as Landslide Lyndon | 31 | |
5709914231 | MLK Assassination | on 1968 in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray | 32 | |
5709920077 | Robert Kennedy Assassination | on 1968 in Los Angeles, CA by Sirhan Sirhan | 33 | |
5709929421 | Election of 1968 | Hubert Humphrey - Democrat - LBJ's VP Richard Nixon - Republican Main issue - Vietnam | 34 | |
5710026435 | Why did Nixon win Election? | promise to end Vietnam | 35 | |
5710082924 | Freedom Riders were part of...? | CORE (Congress On Racial Equality) | 36 | |
5710086092 | March on Washington | civil right supporters on a protest march in DC televised in America MLK gave his I Have A Dream speech | 37 | |
5710149124 | 1st Sit In Occurred where? | Greensboro, NC | 38 | |
5710157533 | 24th Amendment | outlaws poll taxes | 39 | |
5710161604 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | no jim crow laws/outlaws discrimination | 40 | |
5710161605 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | outlawed literary test | 41 | |
5710174163 | Civil Rights Act of 1968 | federal law for fair housing | 42 | |
5710180235 | Black Muslims | believed: -blacks seperate from whites -blacks proud of their own & have their own religion meet violence with violence by any means necessary | 43 | |
5710203337 | Black Power Movement | wanted pride in black race | 44 | |
5710214174 | Black Panthers | blacks control their own communities and use violence to end white control in black communities | 45 | |
5710224517 | Race Riots | What: blacks burning and smashing city blocks of poor housing and old stores Why: because angry and tried for civil rights | 46 | |
5710248263 | Watts Riots | What: 6 days of fights, fires, etc. Why: want civil rights now | 47 |
AP US History - 1960's Study Questions Flashcards
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