APUSH Chapter 39 Flashcards
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| 723689253 | Robert Kennedy | Attorney General for his brother JFK. Recasted the FBI. | |
| 723689254 | Robert McNamara | Head of the Defense Department. | |
| 723689255 | The Peace Corps | An army of idealistic youth volunteers to bring American skills to underdeveloped countries. | |
| 723689256 | Man on the Moon (1969) | A multibillion dollar project to boost economy, military, and scientific prestige. | |
| 723689257 | Vienna Conference (1961) | Krushchev threatened to cut off Western access into Berlin. | |
| 723689258 | Berlin Wall (1961) | Plugged heavy population drain from East to West Germany. | |
| 723689259 | Flexible Response | Having an array of military options that could be matched to the crisis at hand. | |
| 723689260 | Alliance for Progress (1961) | A Marshall Plan for Latin America. Aimed to close gap between rich and poor to discourage communism, but failed. | |
| 723689261 | Détente | Kennedy's realistic policy of peaceful coexistence with USSR. | |
| 723689262 | James Meredith | The first black man to enter the University of Mississippi. Kennedy sent many troops to enroll him to his first class. | |
| 723689263 | March on Washington | MLK gathered 200,000 demonstrators to support the Kennedy's new civil rights legislation. | |
| 723689264 | Medgar Evers | A black Mississippi civil rights worker who was shot down by a white man the very night Kennedy proposed a civil rights legislation. | |
| 723689265 | Lee Harvey Oswald | An assassin who shot Kennedy in the brain. | |
| 723689266 | Civil Rights Act | LBJ passed this bill to honor Kennedy's memory. Banned racial discrimination. Created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. | |
| 723689267 | Affirmative Action | LBJ's executive order against sexual discrimination. | |
| 723689268 | War on Poverty | LBJ was concerned for sickness in Appalachia from the soft-coal industry. | |
| 724253516 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Took Congress' war-declaring powers away and gave the president a blank check to use force in SE Asia. | |
| 724253517 | Office of Economic Opportunity | LBJ granted $1 billion to redevelop Appalachia in his War on Poverty. | |
| 724253518 | Medicare | Medical aid for the elderly. | |
| 724253519 | Medicaid | Medical aid for the poor. | |
| 724253520 | Project Head Start | Education to poor children. | |
| 724253521 | Voting Rights Act | Outlawed literacy tests and sent federal voter registrars into southern states. | |
| 724253522 | Malcolm X | Militant black Islam preacher and leader. Influenced by Nation of Islam. | |
| 724253523 | Elijah Muhammed | Founder of Nation of Islam. | |
| 724253524 | Black Panther Party | Openly carried weapons in the streets of Oakland and abandoned peaceful demonstration. | |
| 724253525 | Operation Rolling Thunder | Full scale bombings against North Vietnam. | |
| 724253526 | Domino Theory | If one nation falls to communism, other nations around will follow. | |
| 724253527 | Credibility Gap | Opened between the government and the people due to the lack of faith in the government during the Vietnam War. | |
| 724253528 | Doves and Hawks | Two sides formed regarding the Vietnam war. | |
| 724253529 | Tet Offensive | Viet Cong savagely attacked South Vietnam on the Vietnamese New Year, proving that the war was a lost cause. | |
| 724253530 | George Wallace | Third party candidate in the election of 1968. Demanded segregation and prodding blacks into their place. Proposed smashing North Vietnam to smithereens. | |
| 724253531 | Stonewall Incident | Off-duty police officers attacked gay men which encouraged homosexuals to militancy. | |
| 724253532 | Students for a Democratic society | Spawned an underground terrorist group (Weathermen) and abandoned peaceful demonstrations. |