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chapter 27
history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Election of 1960 | Kennedy won, super close election , JFK-democrat, Nixon-Republican |
| John F. Kennedy | elected pres in 1960, democrat, first catholic president, youngest person to be elected as president at the time, war hero, back injury from WW2, hurt rest of life, pushed space program forward (man on moon), |
| The Kennedy-Nixon Debate | first pres debate, on tv, nixon awkward, JFK confident/relaxed, |
| Berlin Wall Crisis (1961) | east germany wanted away from communism, traveled through berlin, Germany created Berlin wall to keep people from leaving, kennedy goes and makes a speech in berlin, iconic symbol of cold war |
| Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) | us supporting cuba for resisting communism, leader of cuba taken out, new leader made cuba communist, kennedy unsuccessfully threw over the communist govern. Cuba=scared, russia helped cuba, missiles fly 2,000 miles, |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | four young black college students copy cat rosa parks in a store in NC, arrested, public response created many protests, sit/kneel/ wade- ins in white church pools & beaches, |
| Letter From Birmingham Jail | |
| Freedom Riders | four young black college students copy cat rosa parks in a store in NC, arrested, public response created many protests, |
| March of Washington (1963) | 1000s of protesters at washington |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | vice pres.->pres. adored Roosevelt, one of the best pres to get things done in congress, had been involved in congress for years, tall, gets up close and personal to try to sky them into doing what they want. |
| Assassination of JFK | |
| Election of 1964 - Daisy Girl Ad | |
| Civil rights act of 1964 | jim crow was over, voting rights became new obsession, for a law to be passed on voting blacks need the same voting rights, johnson sending army on protesters |
| Malcom X | |
| Great Society Programs | |
| Voting rights act of 1965 | outlawed any racial segregation on voting rights, |
| medicare and medicaid | |
| Immigration act of 1965 | |
| Tonkin Gulf Incident/resolution | |
| Viet Cong | |
| Cuban missile crisis part 2 | US spy flight catch russia basing missiles in cuba, kennedy and khrushchev/russia leader, do not want war, kennedy demanded missiles be removed and placed a naval blockade around cuba, russia leader back down in exchange for US removing missiles in turkey |
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