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early 60s
jfk years
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11th Grade
04/14/2011

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Richard Nixon
Definition
assumed to be next president with eisenhower's blessing
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John F. Kennedy
Definition
young senator from massachusetts runs for president, first roman catholic president
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LBJ
Definition
kennedy's v.p., j edgar hoover blackmailes jfk to put lbj as vp
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New Frontier
Definition
kennedys program
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Camelot
Definition
kennedy administration
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Bay of Pigs Fiasco
Definition
kennedy gets scared without telling refugees doesnt provide air cover, refugees are killed b/c castro knows of invasion
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Nikita Kruschev
Definition
met with jfk in VIENNA SUMMIT
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Triad System
Definition
if soviet union lost all their missles, we have nuclear missles by land, sea, and air
LAND- missle silo's/ICBM's
SEA-trident submarines/POLARIS
AIR-B-52
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Norad
Definition
underground city built in the mountains @ CHEYENNE MT, COLORADO
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Berlin Wall
Definition
seals off communist sector from the west side
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Ich Bin Ein Berliner
Definition
kennedys speech by the berlin wall
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Alliance for Progress
Definition
asks congress to raise taxes to give american economic aid to latin america
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Peace Corps
Definition
asks congress for 15 billion to 18-21 to give up two years to join this & be trained to do something for people who need help
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Sgt. Shriver
Definition
controlled the peace corps
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Yuri Greagarin
Definition
russian cominaut, went to space and orbited earth 3 times and came back safely
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Mercury Program
Definition
select 8 astronauts to space
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Alan Shephard
Definition
first american to go to space
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John Glenn
Definition
first american to orbit the earth
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Cuban Missle Crisis
Definition
on the break of ww3
Term
red phone/ hotline
nuclear test ban treaty
Definition
b/c of cuban missle crisis there are
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SNCC
Definition
organization @ tennessee, black students
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Lunch-counter sit-ins
Definition
black students demanding to be served and wont move until they are
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C.O.R.E.
Definition
congress of racial equality sponsored the freedom rides
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"Bull" Conner
Definition
uses police force to keep freedom riders away
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James Meredith
Definition
wants to desegregate the universities starting with ole miss
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Birmingham Riots
Definition
freedom riders demonstrating and being attacked for it
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George Wallace
Definition
governor of alabama, unofficial spokesman for segregation movement
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civil rights bill
Definition
from now on it is a federal offense to discriminate upon anybody based on the color of their skin
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filibuster
Definition
talking a bill to death, civil rights bill
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March on Washington
Definition
if enough people do this they can pass the civil rights bill
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Martin Luther King
Definition
speaker for the march on wa
i have a dream speech
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Medgar Evers
Definition
first victim of an assassins bullet
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Byron de la Beckwith
Definition
member of the kkk that shot medgar
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Literacy Test
Definition
to register to vote in alabama you had to take this
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Poll Tax
Definition
in mississippi to register to vote you had to pay this which most blacks couldnt afford
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Grandfather clause
Definition
in tennessee to register to vote, if your grandfather never registered neither can you
Term
24th amendment
Definition
congress passes this, from now on any method used to keep any american from being able to vote is illegal
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Freedom Summer
Definition
summer of 1964, all college students should give up 2 months of vacation and come to souther states to register black voters
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Michael Schwerner, Andrew goodman, James Chaney
Definition
three people who were killed coming to freedom summer
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Dep. Cecil Price
Definition
works for philadelphia, mississippi police and arrested the three ppl going to freedom summer
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Matthew Rainey
Definition
sheriff of philadelphia, mississippi
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Selma To Montgomery March
Definition
last peaceful protest of civil rights movement
people gather here to register blacks
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Jim Clark
Definition
sheriff with a short temper at selma
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Bloody Sunday
Definition
national guard is at capital of montgomery and they beat and trampel 38 ppl
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Berkeley
Definition
student protests start here
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In Loco Parentis
Definition
in place of your parents, college administration acts as your parents and tell you what to do
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Mario Savio
Definition
university of ca student, gives a speech and conducted a sitdown strike
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Free Speech Movement
Definition
mario savio conducted it to be able to take the classes they want to take
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"counter culture"
Definition
a new world based on new morals and guidelines
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Bety Friedan
Definition
wrote the feminine mystique
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womens liberation movement
Definition
1) equal pay for equal work
2) better opportunites
3) legalize abortion
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N.O.W.
Definition
national organization of women, planned most of protests
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Drug revolution
Definition
people start to abuse drugs
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Dr. Timothy Leary
Definition
harvard philosophy professor, wants to unlock the portion of the brain, found lsd
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Definition
gun was his found at crime scene of jfk's assassination
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Jack Ruby
Definition
mafia crime figure, shot & killed oswald
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Warren Report
Definition
900 page that lee harvey oswald shot and killed jfk, but was sealed off from the worls
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