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