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American Pageant 38
Trainor- AP United States History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Peace Corps | kennedy administration program that sent youthful american volunteers to work in underdeveloped countries |
| Berlin Wall | high barrier between east and west erected during the 1961 berlin crisis |
| Green Beret | elite antiguerilla military units expanded by kennedy as part of his doctrine of "flexible response" |
| Alliance for Progress | an attempt to provide american aid for democratic reform in latin america that met with much disappointment and frustration |
| Bay of Pigs | site where anti-castro guerilla forces failed in their u.s.-sponsored invasion |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | tense confrontation between kennedy and khrushchev that nearly led to nuclear war in october 1962 |
| Sit Ins | new civil rights technique developed in the 1960s to d esegregate lunch counters and other public facilities in the south |
| Great Society | lbj's broad program of welfare legislation and social reform that swept through congress in 1965 |
| Gulf of Tonkin | the 1964 congressional action that became a "blank check" for the vietnam war |
| Voting Right Act | law, spurred by martin luther king jr's march from selma to montgomery, that guaranteed rights originally given blacks under fifteenth amendment |
| Black Power | racial slogan that signaled a growing challenge to king's non-violent civil rights movement bymilitant younger blacks |
| Tet | the vietnamese new year celebration, during which the communists launched a heavy offensive against the united states in 1968 |
| Free Speech Movement | student activist protest at the university of california that criticized corporate interests and impersonal university education |
| Students for a Democratic Society | student organization that moved from nonviolent protest to undeground terrorism within a few years |
| Stone Wall Inn | site of an off-duty police raid in 1969 that spurred gay and lesbian activism |
| James Meredith | first black student admitted to the university of mississippi, shot during a civil rights march in 1966 |
| Roberts McNamara | cabinet officer who promoted "flexible response" but came to doubt thewisdom of the vietnam war he had presided over |
| Robert F. Kennedy | new york senator whose antiwar campaign for the presidency was ended by an assassin's bullet in june 1968 |
| Richard M. Nixon | former vice president who staged a remarkable political comeback to win presidential election in 1968 |
| Malcolm X | charismatic black muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s |
| Eugene J. McCarthy | minnesota senator whose antiwar "children's crusade" helped force johnson to alter his vietnam policies |
| Mario Savio | early student activist and leader of the free speech movement at the university of california |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | nonviolent black leader whose advocacy of peaceful change came under attack from militants after 1965 |
| Hubert Humphrey | vice president whose loyalty to lbj's vietnam policies sent him down to defeat in the 1968 presidential election |
| John F. Kennedy | charismatic president whose brief administration experienced domestic stalemate and foreign confrontations with communism |
| George C. Wallace | third-party candidate whose conservative, hawkish 1968 campaign won 9 million votes and carried five states |
| Nikita Khrushchev | aggressive soviet leader whose failed gamble of putting missiles in cuba cost him his job |
| Alfred Kinsey | controversial indiana university "sexologist" who documented americans' changing sexual behavior |
| Barry M. Goldwater | conservative republican whose crushing defeat opened the way for the liberal great society programs |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | brilliant legislative operator whose domestic achievements in social welfare and civil rights fell under the shadow of his vietnam disaster |
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