Unit 9 1960s

• JFK New Frontier

  Program that stated Americans need to make sacrifices to cross a frontier into the unknown

  an example is this helped America get on the moon
• Robert F. Kennedy

  younger brother of JFK who was a senator of New York, anti war and pro civil rights candidate for election but is assasinated
• Warren Commission

  investigation made by LBJ to find who assassinated JFK, found Oswald as killer
• Peace Corps

  Federal agency by JFK to promote volunteer work in foreign countries
• Bay of Pigs

  failed attempt to try and over throw communist Cuba government, they rally and inspire cubans to revolt but US don't send air support killing many people
• Cuban Missile Crisis

  US spys find that soviet missiles are in Cuba, ends with taking missiles out if US takes missiles out of Italy and ban testing nuclear weapons
• Flexible response

  this was changing the military for the US to be able to fight wars without the use of Nuclear weapons, also increase spending on non nuclear weapons
• George Wallace

  southern populist that defend racial segregation, tried to be democrat president candiate but have success as the third party canidate
• Hurbert Humphrey

  VP of LBJ and candiate for Democratic party in election. His support for vietnam caused split in party letting Nixon to win election
• Eugene McCarthy

  liberal anti war senator that had major support from youth movement in presidential campaign.
• Hawks and doves

  people view on use of military conflict. Dove is against use, Hawk is in favor of war
• Tet Offensive

  Vietcong launch attack against us force and south Vietnam. Turning point of public opinion about war
• Credibility gap

  people start to stop trusting government as they are saying we are winning as new show deaths and rise in draft numbers
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

  Gives LBJ power to do anything as long as it will maintain peace in Vietnam
• Fall of Diem

  leader in south vietnam who was democratic but corrupt. Makes US have him assassinated
• Vietnam War

  War that started with US trying to contain communism as Vietnam is split into a communist north and democratic south
• Equal Pay Act 1963

  women cant be paid less then men just cause they are women
• National Organization for Women NOW

  organization that pushed for equal employment opportunity and equal pay for women. Also supported legalized abortion aaand equal rights act
• Betty Friedan-The Feminine Mystique

  Author of book that stated women have to be forced into a housewife role without their choice. Making many women question their position and well being.
• New Left

  group of white students that supported democracy, civil rights, and anti vietnam war
• Students for a Democratic Society

  student movement thats an example of the New left. Has port Huron Statement saying they wanted a more democratic society
• Warren court

  supreme court that expanded civil rights, , civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways. very liberal
• De facto segregation

  people are segregated due to natural soperaction of social classes, red lining
• Race riots

  public out out break between whites and blacks that are violent
• Watts Riots

  race riots in La that started with white police hitting black bystander, led to 6 days of riot and some deaths
• Black Panthers

  militant black organization that promote black power and self defense
• Stokely Carmichael

  black civil rights activist and leader of SNCC
• Congress of Racial Equality CORE

  black civil rights group that used non violent direct action to end racial segregation in US
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC

  civil rights organization that boycott bus system leading to desegregation of buses
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating committee SNCC

  black civil rights group made of student that used nonviolent protest to end segregation and racism
• Malcom X

  Black civil rights advocate that believe in the use of violence to get more civil rights
• March to Montgomery

  led by MLK to show how blacks will use their right to vote, having to walk show their commitment and cause
• March on Washington

  peaceful demonstration with thousands of suportes in which MLK says I have a dream speech wanting civil rights legislation and end to racial discrimination
• Black Power

  movement to have more racial pride and economic empowerment
• 24th Amendment

  abolish poll tax
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

  outlaw discriminatory voting practices like literacy test to vote
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and voting
• Rachel Carson and silent sprint

  environment activist that create a book stating how pesticides are bad for environment and hurt more then just bugs
• Immigrant Act

  abolish quotas and made immigration based on those who can contribute most to US
• medicare/medicaid

  health insurance program for people with limited income