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APUSH CH 29
APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1960 | birth control |
| flexible response | movement away from massive retaliation and reliance on nuclear power. elite special forces (Green berets) |
| NOW | National Women's Organization. advocated economic and legal equality |
| ERA | Equal Rights Amendment. in 1972 |
| country | ask not what your ____ can do for you...-Kennedy |
| Carson | woman who wrote Silent Spring. environmental movement |
| Engel v. Vitale | prayers and bible teaching abolished in schools. violate separation of church and state |
| Miranda v. Arizona | the right to have a lawyer present during interrogation |
| HUD or DOT | Dept. of Transportation and Dept. of Urban Housing. established on the Great Society |
| 1000 Days | days of JFKs presidency |
| 24th Amendment | abolished the poll tax |
| "Lady Bird" Johnson | Beautiful America campaign |
| PeaceCorps | helped in third world countries. non profit |
| Ralph Nadar | wrote Unsafe at any Seed.clean water and air laws |
| Betty Freidan | encouraged middle class women to seek employment |
| Woodstock | rebellious convention in 1969 |
| tax cut | only on income tax |
| 61-63 | Kennedy's years |
| 63-69 | Johnson's years |
| Warren Commission | investigated Kennedy assassination. declared no conspiracy |
| Great Society | Johnson's presidential plan |
| War on Poverty | based on the Other America by Harrington. emphasized federal funded education and job training to break poverty cycle |
| Medicare-medicaid | for all elderly 65+ for all impoverished |
| Office of Economic Opportunity | given billion dollar budget. fell short of eliminating poverty because of "program weaknesses and lack of funds" |
| Immigration Act of 1965 | ended quotas of 1920s and increased number of Asians and Latin Americans |
| sit in movement | Af. Am's challenged segregation through lunch counters by ordering meals and refusing to leave when they were not served |
| freedom riders | began to desegregate bus stations |
| George Wallace | tried to keep an African American. from joining public school. ran for pres. |
| Medgar Evers | shot and killed for trying to give blacks the right to vote. Freedom Summer |
| Eugene Bull Connor | arrested King in Birmingham Alabama. gave fireman right to use dogs and firehoses on protesters |
| Selma March of 1965 | for voting rights. resulted in brutality. resulted in Voting rights Act of 1965 |
| 1963 March on Washington | I have a dream speech. high water mark of peaceful civil rights movement |
| 1964 Freedom Summer | for black voting rights all summer campaign |
| voting rights act of 1965 | ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars |
| De facto v de jure segregation | that's just the way it is. seperate but unequal |
| affirmative action | positive measures to recruit minorities to compensate for past injustices |
| black power | movement by radical civil rights leaders |
| Commission on Civil Disorder | used to investigate race riots |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | leader of civil right movement |
| Malcom X | violent black Muslim. civil rights leader |
| Huey Newton | black panthers |
| Bobby seale | black panthers |
| Alliance for Progress | social and economic programs in Latin America (Kennedy) |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | most dangerous crisis. Kennedy's greatest success. Soviets backed down after naval blockade. telecommunications lines established |
| First Indochina War | defeat of the French and Geneva Accords. divided Vietnam |
| Viet Cong | south Vietnamese. communists |
| Viet Minh | north Vietnamese. communists |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | official beginning to Vietnam War and authorization of combat troops |
| Robert McNamara | acknowledged that the US failed to understand either the enemy or nature of the war |
| 1968 | most violent year in American history |
| New Frontier | John F. Kennedy's plan for presidency |
| Lee Harvery Oswald | assassinated Kennedy. lone assassin |
| Barry Goldwater | conservative who wanted the end of the welfare state. ran in 1965 election against Johnson |
| socialized medicine | government controls health care |
| Robert Kennedy | assassinated in 1968 |
| missile gap | fictional idea that US was behind USSR |
| Green berets | elite special forces |
| Bay of Pigs | Kennedy's worst mistake. CIA trained force of Cubans to start an uprising but failed. followed by "Operation Mongoose" would destabilize governement |
| Berlin Wall | symbol of Cold War until torn down in '89 |
| Dien Bien Phu | defeat of French in First Indochina war |
| Geneva Accords | divided Vietnam into two separate countries |
| Saigon | capitol of South Vietnam |
| Nguyen Van Thieu | took over in South Vietnam |
| guns and butter | switching economy from war to normal |
| Tet Offensive | Viet Cong surprise attack. destruction viewed on TV |
| Hubert Humphrey | vice president in 1965 election. |
| Democratic Convention of 1968 | violence. from demonstrations against the Vietnam War |
| peace with honor | known with Spiro Agnew (Nixon's running mate) |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | communist supply route between N and S Vietnam |
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