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Fisher US Review 8
US History Regents Review Packet 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | Unsuccessful attempt by the US to train Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro and communist regime in Cuba |
| Fidel Castro | Communist dictator of Cuba who allied with the Soviet Union in exchange for financial and military support |
| Good Neighbor Policy | 1933 foreign policy action that promised less interference in Latin America, improving US relations with Latin America |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 Fidel Castro allows Soviet Union to build missile silos in Cuba, leading US and Soviet Union to the brink of war |
| Naval Quarantine | Using ships to block access to a nation. Action taken by Kennedy to stop Soviet ships from bringing missiles to Cuba |
| Nikita Kruschev | Communist dictator of Soviet Union during Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Peace Corps | Organization established by Kennedy to send volunteers to developing nations to help with education, health care, etc |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | Symbolic end of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, representing an end to communism in Eastern Europe |
| Chief Justice Earl Warren | Supreme Court Justice 1953-1969, advanced civil liberties in cases such as Brown v Board of Ed and Miranda v Arizona |
| Mapp v Ohio | 1960 Supreme Court decision stating that illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in trial |
| Gideon v Wainright | 1963 Supreme Court decision that a lawyer will be provided for free if a suspect cannot afford one |
| Escobedo v Illinois | 1964 Supreme Court decision stating that a suspect must be allowed to have a lawyer present during questioning |
| Miranda v Arizona | 1966 Supreme Court decision that a suspect must be told of their rights before being questioned |
| Martin Luther King, Jr | Civil rights advocate who supported civil disobedience as a way to protest segregation and injustice towards blacks |
| Malcolm X | Civil rights leader who opposed integration and encouraged black nationalism, a separate identity and racial unity for blacks |
| Rosa Parks | Arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Mass refusal by blacks and whites to ride segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, an effort to promote integration |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 law banning literacy tests as a requirement for voter registration |
| Lyndon Johnson | President after JFK was assassinated, signed Voting Rights Act, promoted and end to poverty with Great Society program |
| Great Society | Lyndon Johnson's program to end poverty in the US |
| Economic Opportunity Act | 1964 law passed to combat causes of poverty including illiteracy, unemployment, and inadequate public services |
| Medicare | Provides medical insurance to elderly and disabled |
| Medicaid | Provides medical insurance to low income people |
| Housing and Urban Development | Provides low income housing to those living in poverty |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Banned different voter registration standards for blacks and whites and discrimination in public places and the workplace |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Federal organization created to investigate charges of discrimination |
| NAACP | National Association created to protect civil rights and advance equality and opportunity for blacks |
| CORE | Congress of Racial Equality, used peaceful protest to fight segregation and carried out the Freedom Rides |
| Freedom Rides | Black and white passengers riding buses together to protest segregation in the South |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded by Martin Luther King, Jr and other black clergy to protest segregation |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, student group seeking radical change and an immediate end to segregation |
| Black Panthers | Founded 1966, had violent encounters with police, opposed integration and encouraged separate black communities |
| Equal Opportunity Act | 1964 law requiring equal pay for equal work for women |
| Title IX Act | 1972 law banning schools from excluding women from any educational program or activity |
| Roe v Wade | 1973 Supreme Court decision that abortion is legal based on Constitutional right to privacy |
| Cesar Chavez | Founder of United Farm Workers union, used non violence to promote better wages and working conditions for farm workers |
| United Farm Workers Union | Organization founded by Cesar Chavez to promote better wages and working conditions for farm workers |
| Americans with Disabilities Act | 1990 law prohibiting discrimination against disabled persons |
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