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1960s JFK
Terms from the 1960s JFK Prezi
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Beatnik | a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the Beat Generation |
| Beat Generation | a movement of young people in the 1950s who rejected conventional society and favored Zen Buddhism, modern jazz, free sexuality, and recreational drugs |
| Domino Theory | a belief that is something happens in one country, it will cause similar reactions in neighboring countires |
| Nikita Kruschev | Leader of the USSR |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of North Vietnam |
| Viet Cong | Communist Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam |
| Civil Right, Music, Culture | Many things that carried over from the 1950s into the early 1960s |
| Alaska and Hawaii | The 49th and 50th states to join the US |
| Beat Writers | Disillusioned authors from the 1950s and early 1960s that influenced the counter culture |
| 47 years old | Richard Nixon at the time of the 1960 Election |
| 43 years old | John F Kennedy at the time of the 1960 Election |
| WWII Veteran | Both Nixon and Kennedy were WWII Veterans |
| WWII Hero | JFK was a hero, having saved crew members from his sinking ship |
| Dwight D Eisenhower | The last president of the 1950s |
| Richard M Nixon | The 1960 Republican Presidential Candidate |
| John F Kennedy | The 1960 Democratic Presidential Candidate |
| Television | The Presidential Election of 1960 was the first tp appear on tv |
| Camelot | JFK's White House was compared to this |
| King Arthur | Fictional Great English Warrior King |
| Jacqueline Kennedy | JFK's wife |
| Guinevere | King Arthur's wife |
| Sit-ins | Peaceful protests at lunchcounters in an attempt to end segregation in restaurants |
| Medgar Evers | NAACP Leader in Mississippi murdered outside of his home |
| Community Mental Health Act of 1963 | Provided federal funding for community mental health centers as an alternative to institutionalization |
| Equal Pay Act 1963 | Attempt to end wage discrimination based upon gender |
| Children's March | Birmingham, AL, children march for equal treatment and end to segregation |
| Bay of Pigs | Failed attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro |
| Turkey and Italy | Two European countries where the US had nuclear missiles |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | US USSR confrontation over nuclear missiles in Cuba |
| Flexible Response | Defense strategy, one that relied on multiple options for responding to the Soviet Union, discouraged massive retaliation, and encouraged mutual deterrence. |
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