Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968

335019936	Peace Corp	Kennedy administration program that sent youthful American volunteers to work in underdeveloped countries
335019937	Berlin Wall	High barrier between East and West erected during the 1961 Berlin crisis
335019938	Green Berets	Elite anti-guerrilla military units expanded by Kennedy as part of his doctrine of "flexible response"
335019939	Alliance for Progress	An attempt to provide American aid for democratic reform in Latin America that met with much disappointment and frustration
335019940	Bay of Pigs	Site where anti-Castro guerrilla forces failed in their U.S-sponsored invasion
335019941	Cuban Missile Crisis	Tense confrontation between Kennedy and Khrushchev that nearly led to nuclear war in October 1962
335019942	Sit-ins and Freedom Rides (non-violent protest)	New civil rights technique developed int he 1960s to desegregate lunch counters and other public facilities in the South
335019943	Great Society	LBJ's broad program of welfare legislation and social reform that swept through congress in 1965
335019944	Tonkin Gulf Resolution	The 1964 congressional action that became a "blank check" for the Vietnam War
335019945	Voting Rights Act of 1965	Law, spurred by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march from Selma to Montgomery, that guaranteed rights originally given blacks under the Fifteenth Amendment
335019946	"Black Power"	Racial slogan that signaled a growing challenge to King's non-violent civil rights movement by militant younger blacks
335019947	Tet	The Vietnamese New Year celebration, during which the communists launched a heavy offensive against the U.S. in 1968
335019948	Free Speech Movement	Student activist protest at the Univ. of Calif. that criticized corporate interests and impersonal university education
335019949	Students for a Democratic Society	Student organization that moved from non-violent protest to underground terrorism within a few years
335019950	Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village (New York City)	Site of an off-duty police raid in 1969 that spurred gay and lesbian activism
335019951	John F. Kennedy	Charismatic president whose brief administration experienced domestic stalemate and foreign confrontations with communism
335019952	Robert S. McNamara	Cabinet officer who promoted "flexible response" but came to doubt the wisdom of the Vietnam War he had presided over
335019953	Nikita Khrushchev	Aggressive Soviet leader whose failed gamble of putting missiles in Cuba cost him his job
335019954	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Non-violent black leader whose advocacy of peaceful change came under attack from militants after 1965
335019955	Lyndon B. Johnson	Brilliant legislative operator whose domestic achievements in social welfare and civil rights fell under the shadow of his Vietnam disaster
335019956	Barry M. Goldwater	Conservative Republican whose crushing defeat opened the way for the liberal Great Society programs
335019957	James Meredith	First black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, shot during a civil rights march in 1966
335019958	Malcolm X	Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s
335019959	Mario Savio	Early student activist and leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California (at Berkeley)
335019960	Eugene J. McCarthy	Minnesota senator whose anti-war "Children's Crusade" helped force Johnson to alter his Vietnam policies
335019961	Robert F. Kennedy	New York senator whose anti-war campaign for the presidency was ended by an assassin's bullet in June 1968
335019962	Richard M. Nixon	Former vice president who staged a remarkable political comeback to win presidential election in 1968
335019963	George C. Wallace	Third party candidate whose conservative, hawkish 1968 campaign won 9 million votes and carried 5 states
335019964	Hubert Humphrey	Vice president whose loyalty to LBJ's Vietnam policies sent him down to defeat in the 1968 presidential election
335019965	Allen Ginsberg	"Beat" poet of the 1950s whose hostility to materialism and "establishment" values helped lay groundwork for 1960s "counterculture"