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| 1506207336 | New Frontier | President Kennedy's nickname for his domestic policy agenda. Supported by youthful optimism, the program included proposals for the Peace Corps and efforts to improve education and health care | 0 | |
| 1506207337 | Peace Corps | A federal agency created by President Kennedy in 1961 to promote voluntary service by Americans in foreign countries. The group provides labor power to help developing countries improve their infrastructure, health care, educational systems, and other aspects of their societies. Part of Kennedy's New Frontier vision, the organization represented an effort by postwar liberals to promote American values and influence through productive exchanges across the world | 1 | |
| 1506207338 | Apollo (1961-1975) | Program of manned space flights run by America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The project's highest achievement was the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon on July 20, 1969 | 2 | |
| 1506207339 | Berlin Wall | Fortified and guarded barrier between East and West Berlin erected on orders from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 to stop the flow of people to the West. Until its destruction in 1989, the wall was a vivd symbol of the divide between the communist and capitalist worlds | 3 | |
| 1506207340 | European Economic Community (EEC) | Free trade zone in Western Europe created by Treaty of Rome in 1957. Often referred to as the "Common Market" this collection of countries originally included France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The body eventually expanded to become the European Union, which by 2005 included 27 member states | 4 | |
| 1506207341 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | CIA plot in 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro by training Cuban exiles to invade and supporting them with American air power. The mission failed and became a public relations disaster early in John F. Kennedy's presidency | 5 | |
| 1506207342 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 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's superpowers perilously close to the brink of nuclear confrontation | 6 | |
| 1506207343 | Freedom Riders | Organized mix-raced group who rode interstate buses deep into the South to draw attention to and protest racial segregation, beginning in 1961. This effort by northern young people to challenge racism proved a political and public relations success for the Civil Rights Movement | 7 | |
| 1506207344 | Voter Education Project | Effort by SNCC and other civil rights groups to register the South's historically disenfranchised black population. The project typified a common strategy of the civil rights movement, which sought to counter racial discrimination by empowering people at grassroots levels to exercise their civic rights through voting | 8 | |
| 1506207345 | March on Washington | Massive civil rights demonstration in August 1963 in support of Kennedy-backed legislation to secure legal protections for American blacks. One of the most visually impressive manifestations of the Civil Rights Movement, the march was the occasion of Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech | 9 | |
| 1506207346 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Federal law that banned racial discrimination in public facilities and strengthened the federal government's power to fight segregation in schools. Title VII of the act prohibited employers from discriminating based on race in their hiring practices, and empowered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to regulate fair employment | 10 | |
| 1506207347 | Affirmative Action | Program designed to redress historic racial and gender imbalances in jobs and education. The term grew from an executive order issued by John F. Kennedy in 1961 mandating that projects paid for with federal funds could not discriminate based on race in their hiring practices. In the late 1960s, President Nixon's Philadelphia Plan changed the meaning of the word to require attention to certain groups, rather than protect individuals against discrimination | 11 | |
| 1506207348 | Great Society | President Lyndon Johnson's term for his domestic policy agenda. Billed as a successor to the New Deal, it aimed to extend postwar prosperity to all people in American society by promoting civil rights and fighting poverty. The programs included the War on Poverty; which expanded the Social Security system by creating Medicare and Medicaid to provide health care for the aged and the poor. Johnson also signed laws protecting consumers and empowering community organizations to combat poverty at grassroots levels | 12 | |
| 1506207349 | Freedom Summer | A voter registration drive in Mississippi spearheaded by a collaboration of civil rights groups. The campaign drew the activism of thousands of black and white civil rights workers, many of whom were students from the north, and was tarnished by the abduction and murder of three such workers at the hands of white racists | 13 | |
| 1506207350 | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964) | Political party organized by civil rights activists to challenge Mississippi's delegation to the Democratic National Convention, who opposed the civil rights planks in the party's platform. Claiming a mandate to represent the true voice of Mississippi, where almost no black citizens could vote, the party demanded to be seated at the convention but were denied by party bosses. The effort was both a set back to civil rights activism in the south and a motivation to continue to struggle for black voting rights | 14 | |
| 1506207351 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Legislation pushed through Congress by President Johnson that prohibited ballot-denying tactics, such as literary tests and intimidation. It was a successor to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and sought to make racial disenfranchisement explicitly illegal | 15 | |
| 1506207352 | Black Panther Party | Organization of armed black militants formed in Oakland, California, in 1966 to protect black rights. This group represented a growing dissatisfaction with the non-violent wing of the civil rights movement, and signaled a new direction to that movement after the legislative victories of 1964 and 1965 | 16 | |
| 1506207353 | Black Power | Doctrine of militancy and separatism that rose in prominence after 1965. These activists rejected Martin Luther King's pacifism and desire for integration. Rather, they promoted pride in African heritage and an often militant position in defense of their rights | 17 | |
| 1506207354 | Six-Day War (1967) | Military conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors, including Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. It ended with and Israeli victory and territorial expansion into the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. It was a humiliation for several Arab states, and the territorial disputes it created formed the basis for continued conflict in the region | 18 | |
| 1506207355 | Stonewall Rebellion (1969) | Uprising in support of equal rights for gay people sparked by an assault by off-duty police officers at a gay bar in New York. The rebellion led to rise in activism and militancy within the gay community and furthered the sexual revolution of the late 1960s | 19 | |
| 1506207356 | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) | A campus-based political organization founded in 1961 by Tom Hayden that became an iconic representation of the New Left. Originally geared toward the intellectual problems of "participatory democracy," it emerged at the forefront of the civil rights, antipoverty, and antiwar movements during the 1960s | 20 | |
| 1506207357 | Robert F. Kennedy | He ran for President in 1968. He stirred a response from workers, African Americans, Hispanics, and younger Americans, and would have captured Democratic nomination but was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan after his victory speech during the California primary in June 1968 | 21 | |
| 1506207358 | Robert S. McNamara | He 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 | 22 | |
| 1506207359 | Ngo Dinh Diem | American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime caused the Communist Viet Cong to thrive in the South and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. He was killed in a coup in 1963 that was encouraged by the U.S. | 23 | |
| 1506207360 | James Meredith | A twenty-nine-year-old African American air force veteran who encountered violent opposition when he attempted to register for the University of Mississippi in October 1962. President Kennedy was forced to send in 400 federal marshals and 3,000 troops to enroll him in his first class--colonial American history | 24 | |
| 1506207361 | Lee Harvey Oswald | On November 22, 1963, he supposedly assassinated President Kennedy who was riding in downtown Dallas, Texas. He was later shot in front of television cameras by Jack Ruby. He was never convicted and it still isn't 100% clear if he committed the crime | 25 | |
| 1506207362 | Malcolm X | Changed his name to advertise his lost African identity. He was first inspired by the militant black nationalists in the Nation of Islam. He was a brilliant and charismatic preacher who proclaimed black separatism. He eventually moved toward mainstream Islam and was gunned down by rival Nation of Islam gunmen while giving a speech in New York City in 1965 | 26 | |
| 1506207363 | Eugene McCarthy | 1968 Democratic candidate for President who ran to succeed current president Lyndon Baines Johnson on an anti-war platform | 27 | |
| 1506207364 | George C. Wallace | An ex-boxer and former governor of Alabama who headed the American Independent party. He is best known for his Southern populist pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he abandoned later in life. Running for president, he won 9 million popular votes and 46 electoral votes, all from five states in the Deep South | 28 | |
| 1578977621 | John F. Kennedy | Charismatic president who brief administration experienced domestic stalemate and foreign confrontations with communism. He was assassinated supposedly by Lee Harvey Oswald | 29 | |
| 1578977622 | Nikita Khrushchev | Aggressive Soviet leader whose failed gamble of putting missiles in Cuba cost him his job | 30 | |
| 1578977623 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Nonviolent black leader whose advocacy of peaceful change came under attack from militants after 1965 | 31 | |
| 1578977624 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Legislative operator whose domestic achievements in social welfare and civil rights fell under the shadow of his Vietnam disaster | 32 | |
| 1578977625 | Barry M. Goldwater | Conservative Republican whose crushing defeat opened the way for the liberal Great Society programs | 33 | |
| 1578977626 | Mario Savio | Early student activist and leader of the Free sSpeech Movement at California University | 34 | |
| 1578977627 | Richard M. Nixon | Former vice president whose staged a remarkable political comeback to win presidential election in 1968 | 35 | |
| 1578977628 | Hubert Humphrey | Vice president whose loyalty to LBJ's Vietnam policies sent him down to defeat in the 1968 presidential election | 36 | |
| 1578977629 | Allen Ginsberg | "Beat" poet of the 1950s whose hostility to materialism and "establishment" values helped lay groundwork for the 1960s "counterculture" | 37 |
