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| 169520134 | John F. Kennedy | president during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis. he was the president who went on tv and told the public about hte crisis and allowed the leader of the soviet uinon to withdraw their missiles. other events, which were during his terms was the building of the berlin wall, the space race, and early events of the Vietnamese war. | |
| 169520135 | Robert F. Kennedy | The Presidential candidate that was assasinated after he won the California Presidential Primary by Sirhan B Sirhan | |
| 169520136 | Robert S. McNamara | was the secretary of defense under Kennedy. He helped develop the flexible response policy. He was against the war in Vietnam and was removed from office because of this. | |
| 169520137 | Charles de Gaulle | First president of the French Fifth Republic and former head of the Free French movement in World War II. | |
| 169520138 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) | |
| 169520139 | Lee Harvey Oswald | On November 22, 1963, he assassinated President Kennedy who was riding downtown Dallas, Texas. Oswald was later shot in front of television cameras by Jack Ruby. | |
| 169520140 | Lyndon B. Johnson | President in 1963, passed Civil Rights bills, created Great Society; political career ruined by Vietnam when to unite the nation he does not run again for reelection in 1968. VP to Kennedy | |
| 169520141 | Barry Goldwater | 1964; Republican contender against LBJ for presidency; platform included lessening federal involvement, therefore opposing Civil Rights Act of 1964; lost by largest margin in history | |
| 169520142 | Malcolm X | militant civil rights leader (1925-1965) | |
| 169520143 | Stokely Carmichael | head of the SNCC making a separatist philosophy of black power as the official objective of the organization | |
| 169520144 | J. William Fulbright | along with journalist, this Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, turned against the war and in January 1966 began to stage highly publicized and occasionally televised congressional hearings to air criticisms of it. | |
| 169520145 | Eugene McCarthy | 1968 Democratic candidate for President who ran to succeed incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson on an anti-war platform. | |
| 169520146 | Hubert H. Humphrey | Vice president elected in 1964 to Johnson | |
| 169520147 | Richard M. Nixon | (69-74) Republican - reduced troops in Vietnam - normalized relations with China - Watergate | |
| 169520148 | George Wallace | racist gov. of Alabama in 1962 ("segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"); runs for pres. In 1968 on American Independent Party ticket of racism and law and order, loses to Nixon; runs in 1972 but gets shot | |
| 169520149 | flexible response | Policy of having the option of using either nuclear or conventional forces in responce to a threat | |
| 169520150 | peaceful coexistence | Term used by Khrushchev in 1963 to describe a situation in which the United States and Soviet Union would continue to compete economically and politically without launching a thermonuclear war. | |
| 169520151 | credibility gap | The gap between the Johnson Administration and the American public support | |
| 169520152 | 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. | |
| 169520153 | Peace Corps. | Federal program established to send volunteers to help developing nations | |
| 169524846 | Vienna summit | June 1961 just after Bay of Pigs, Kennedy and Khrushchev meet; Khrushchev attempts to push Kennedy around - leading to Berlin Wall and Cuban crisis | |
| 169524847 | Trade Expansion Act | October, 1962 - The Act gave the President the power to reduce tariffs in order to promote trade. Kennedy could lower some tariffs by as much as 50%, and, in some cases, he could eliminate them. | |
| 169524848 | Viet Cong | a Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam. | |
| 169524849 | Alliance for Progress | a program in which the United States tried to help Latin American countries overcome poverty and other problems | |
| 169524850 | Bay of Pigs | In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure. | |
| 169524851 | War on Poverty | President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's to provide greater social services for the poor and elderly | |
| 169524852 | Great Society | President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education. | |
| 169524853 | Tonkin Gulf Resolution | This gave the president authority to take "all neccessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the United States." | |
| 169524854 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places. | |
| 169524855 | Cuban missile crisis | the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba | |
| 169524856 | nuclear test-ban treaty | (JFK) 1963, Wake of Cuban Missile Crisis (climax of Cold War, closest weve ever come to nuclear war) Soviets & US agree to prohibit all above-ground nuclear tests, both nations choose to avoid annihilating the human race w/ nuclear war, France and China did not sign | |
| 169524857 | March on Washington | held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally | |
| 169524858 | Twenty-fourth amendment | It outlawed taxing voters, i.e. poll taxes, at presidential or congressional elections, as an effort to remove barriers to Black voters. | |
| 169524859 | Voting Rights Act | 1965 act which guaranteed the right to vote to all Americans, and allowed the federal government to intervene in order to ensure that minorities could vote | |
| 169524860 | Operation Rolling Thunder | bombing campaign over North Vietnam, supposed to weaken enemy's ability and will to fight | |
| 169524861 | Pueblo incident | North Korean capture of the Pueblo, a Navy spy ship, off the coast of communist North Korea | |
| 169524862 | Tet offensive | 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment | |
| 169524863 | counterculture | a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture |
