apush ch. 39 terms

155817362	john f. kennedy	president assassinated in Texas; involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis
155817363	robert f. kennedy	Attorney General during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Assassinated by Sirhan Biashara Sirhan
155817364	robert s. McNamara	US Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, became discouraged by lack of America's success in the war. Wanted to end it.
155817365	Charles de Gaulle	French general and statesman, the leader of the Free French forces in exile
155817366	Martin Luther King Jr.	AfricanAmerican civil rights leader, "I Have A Dream" speech
155817367	Lee Harvey Oswald	United States assassin of JFK, shot by Jack Ruby
155817368	Lyndon B. Johnson	The US president who privately wanted to stay out of Vietnam but sent soldiers because his goal was to stop the spread of communism
155817369	Barry Goldwater	senator of AZ, LBJ beat in the election
155817370	Malcom X	Encouraged violence and wanted separate black communities, converted to a Black Muslim in jail
155817371	Hubert H. Humphrey	Vice president elected in 1964, Politics of Joy
155817372	George Wallace	Four time governor of Alabama. Most famous for his pro-segregation attitude and as a symbol for states' rights.
155817373	peaceful coexistence	for two nations to tolerate each other enough to where nothing will result in war, how Krushchev described U.S and soviet
155817374	new frontier	The "new" liberal and civil rights ideas advocated by Kennedy, in contrast to Eisenhower's conservative view.
155817375	peace corps	a civilian organization sponsored by the United States government, controlled by JFK
155817376	Bay of Pigs	Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government, wanted to overthrow Castro.
155817377	War on Poverty	President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's, provide greater social services for the poor and elderly
155817378	Great society	LBJ's policies of fighting poverty and racial injustice, the term for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration
155817379	cuban missile crisis	the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba, brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
155817380	24th amendment	eliminated the poll tax as a voting requirement
155817381	Tet offensive	surprise attacks on cities all over South Vietnam, no safe place