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Chapter 27,28,29
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Beat Generation
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This small group rejected the mainstream culture of the 1950s in favor of unconventional behavior and forms of expression
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Emmett Till
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This fourteen-year-old boy was brutally beaten to death after he whistled at a white woman; President Eisenhower publicly ignored his murder.
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Rosa Parks
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This civil rights icon was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a city bus to a white man
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Levi Town
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In 1949, families could purchase mass-produced houses in this 17,000-home development.
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Betty Freiden
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This person wrote The Feminine Mystique, which accused social scientists, educators, advertisers, and others of pressuring women to seek fulfillment in serving others
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Interstate Highway and Defense System
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Passed by Congress in 1956, this legislation authorized and helped fund the construction of a national system of roads
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Domino Theory
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It was the basis of President Eisenhower's belief that a Communist victory in Southeast Asia could trigger the fall of Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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This idea held that if both the Soviet Union and the United States possessed enough weapons to destroy each other neither side would use them
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Fidel Castro
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He ousted the U.S-supported dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
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Baby Boom
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People born between 1945 and 1965 are part of this period during which the birthrate soared.
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Economic Oppurtunity Act of 1964
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This group of programs was launched by President Lyndon Johnson to promote racial justice, education, medical care, urban development, and environmental and economic health
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John F. Kennedy
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Candidate who won a close presidential election with the help of the African American vote, the political strength of his running mate, and his performance in the nation's first televised presidential debates.
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Civil Rights Act
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Law that guaranteed access for all Americans to public accommodations, public education, employment, and voting.
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Medicaid
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Launched during the Johnson administration, this program provided the elderly with universal hospital insurance.
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Gideon V Waignwright
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Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled that states must provide a lawyer to people accused of serious crimes who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer themselves.
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March on Washington
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More than a quarter of a million Americans, including 50,000 whites, gathered in the nation's capital for this on August 28, 1963, to pressure the government to support African Americans' civil rights.
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American Indian Movement
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This organization was founded in 1968 to reclaim Native Americans' culture, religion, and right of self-determination
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Ceaser Chavez
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This Chicano activist helped found the United Farm Workers in 1963.
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Freedom Rides
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In May 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organized these to integrate interstate transportation in the South
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Roe V. Wade
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Supreme Court decision that protected women's right to abortion through the second trimester of pregnancy
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My Lai
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The U.S. military covered up this massacre for more than a year
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Agent Orange
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This chemical was dumped on Vietnam by the United States to defoliate, and thereby eliminate, enemy hiding places and to destroy the enemy's food supplies.
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Bay of Pigs
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Site of an attempted assault in 1961 on Fidel Castro's regime
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Pentagon Paper
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This secret government study critical of U.S. policy in Vietnam was leaked to the New York Times in 1971.
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Nikita Krushkev
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Soviet premier who negotiated with President Kennedy to bring about a peaceful resolution to the Cuban missile crisis
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Ho Chi Manh Trail
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This network of infiltration routes connected Laos and South Vietnam
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Eisenhower's greatest Domestic initiative
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Inerstate Highway and Defense act of 1959
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election of 1956
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EisenHower of Stevenson
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New Look
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Eisenhower's Strength Through Nuclear Weapons
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MAD
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Mututally assured destruction
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ICBM
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First Russin Missile tested
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Sputnik
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First Artifical Satellite launched to center of earth
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NASA
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To convince Americans Russians were not ahead
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National Defense Education Actq
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Millions of dollars contributed to help US math an Sciences
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Rise of Sunbelt
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Americans are able to live in the midwest/West with air-conditioning
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Beat Genereation Reject
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Allen Ginsber and Jack Kourac in San Fran Every aspect of mainstream Culture
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Non Vioelnt Protest
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Set civil rights of 50s and 60s apart was non violence and passive aggression
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SCLC
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Local Protests against segregation and disenfranchisement
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Comprehensive Civil Rights Bil
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Kennedy reached a turning point in his domestic agenda planning a full-scale attack on poverty.
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Kenedy's assasination
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Touched Americans like no other event since WW2. Lee Harvey Oswald
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Lyndin B Johnson
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Appointed president headed by Chief Justic Earl Warren
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Johnson Treatment
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LBJ was Famous for threatening legislation
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War on poverty
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Did not significantly redistribute total income
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Baker V Carr
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one person, one vote (Chief Justice Warren)
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SNCC
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Rejected MLK's top-down leadership and adopted grassroots leadership and a decentralized structure.
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Mississippi Summer Freedom Project
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Mobilized thousand of black people to vote in elections
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Civil Rights act of 1968
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Banned Racial discrimination in Housing and Jury. offered federal intervention when states failed to stop violence
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Malcolm X
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Called Nation of Islam of black nationalism and separation
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April 4 1968
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MLK was assassinated by James Earl Ray
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National Ogranization For Women
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Grew with the left side.
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Phylis Shlafy
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Did not agree with the new feministic ideas, said women should be wife and mother
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Berlin Wall
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Divided Germany between East and West Germany. Shocked the entire world.
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Alliance of Progress
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Stopped growth of communism. fostered economic growth to Latin American for a decade
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Special "Hot-Line"
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Kennedy could Speak with Russian premier and British Prime minister instantly. Prevented confrontations.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Gave President all power to do whatever means necessary with Military.
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SDS
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Students for a Democratic Society organized first Anti-war protests against US
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Tet Offesnsive
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Underscored gap between official statements and war's actual progress
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Strategic Arms Limitation Act
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Nixon visited Moscow signed several agreements to trade an limit arms with russia in 1969
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After Yom Kippur War
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Arab nations launched an oil embargo after US supported Israel
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ARVN (south Viet Army)
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4th Largest air force in the world.
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Air War
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Nixon hid an air war bombing North Viet Sancturaries from public
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