APUSH CH 29 Word Scramble

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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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