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| This small group rejected the mainstream culture of the 1950s in favor of unconventional behavior and forms of expression |
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| This fourteen-year-old boy was brutally beaten to death after he whistled at a white woman; President Eisenhower publicly ignored his murder. |
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| This civil rights icon was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a city bus to a white man |
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| In 1949, families could purchase mass-produced houses in this 17,000-home development. |
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| This person wrote The Feminine Mystique, which accused social scientists, educators, advertisers, and others of pressuring women to seek fulfillment in serving others |
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| Passed by Congress in 1956, this legislation authorized and helped fund the construction of a national system of roads |
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| It was the basis of President Eisenhower's belief that a Communist victory in Southeast Asia could trigger the fall of Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines |
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| Mutually Assured Destruction |
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| This idea held that if both the Soviet Union and the United States possessed enough weapons to destroy each other neither side would use them |
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| He ousted the U.S-supported dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. |
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| People born between 1945 and 1965 are part of this period during which the birthrate soared. |
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| Economic Oppurtunity Act of 1964 |
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| This group of programs was launched by President Lyndon Johnson to promote racial justice, education, medical care, urban development, and environmental and economic health |
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| Candidate who won a close presidential election with the help of the African American vote, the political strength of his running mate, and his performance in the nation's first televised presidential debates. |
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| Law that guaranteed access for all Americans to public accommodations, public education, employment, and voting. |
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| Launched during the Johnson administration, this program provided the elderly with universal hospital insurance. |
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| Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled that states must provide a lawyer to people accused of serious crimes who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer themselves. |
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| More than a quarter of a million Americans, including 50,000 whites, gathered in the nation's capital for this on August 28, 1963, to pressure the government to support African Americans' civil rights. |
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| This organization was founded in 1968 to reclaim Native Americans' culture, religion, and right of self-determination |
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| This Chicano activist helped found the United Farm Workers in 1963. |
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| In May 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organized these to integrate interstate transportation in the South |
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| Supreme Court decision that protected women's right to abortion through the second trimester of pregnancy |
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| The U.S. military covered up this massacre for more than a year |
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| This chemical was dumped on Vietnam by the United States to defoliate, and thereby eliminate, enemy hiding places and to destroy the enemy's food supplies. |
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| Site of an attempted assault in 1961 on Fidel Castro's regime |
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| This secret government study critical of U.S. policy in Vietnam was leaked to the New York Times in 1971. |
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| Soviet premier who negotiated with President Kennedy to bring about a peaceful resolution to the Cuban missile crisis |
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| This network of infiltration routes connected Laos and South Vietnam |
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| Eisenhower's greatest Domestic initiative |
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| Inerstate Highway and Defense act of 1959 |
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| Eisenhower's Strength Through Nuclear Weapons |
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| Mututally assured destruction |
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| First Russin Missile tested |
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| First Artifical Satellite launched to center of earth |
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| To convince Americans Russians were not ahead |
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| National Defense Education Actq |
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| Millions of dollars contributed to help US math an Sciences |
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| Americans are able to live in the midwest/West with air-conditioning |
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| Allen Ginsber and Jack Kourac in San Fran Every aspect of mainstream Culture |
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| Set civil rights of 50s and 60s apart was non violence and passive aggression |
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| Local Protests against segregation and disenfranchisement |
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| Comprehensive Civil Rights Bil |
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| Kennedy reached a turning point in his domestic agenda planning a full-scale attack on poverty. |
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| Touched Americans like no other event since WW2. Lee Harvey Oswald |
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| Appointed president headed by Chief Justic Earl Warren |
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| LBJ was Famous for threatening legislation |
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| Did not significantly redistribute total income |
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| one person, one vote (Chief Justice Warren) |
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| Rejected MLK's top-down leadership and adopted grassroots leadership and a decentralized structure. |
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| Mississippi Summer Freedom Project |
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| Mobilized thousand of black people to vote in elections |
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| Banned Racial discrimination in Housing and Jury. offered federal intervention when states failed to stop violence |
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| Called Nation of Islam of black nationalism and separation |
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| MLK was assassinated by James Earl Ray |
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| Did not agree with the new feministic ideas, said women should be wife and mother |
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| Divided Germany between East and West Germany. Shocked the entire world. |
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| Stopped growth of communism. fostered economic growth to Latin American for a decade |
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| Kennedy could Speak with Russian premier and British Prime minister instantly. Prevented confrontations. |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| Gave President all power to do whatever means necessary with Military. |
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| Students for a Democratic Society organized first Anti-war protests against US |
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| Underscored gap between official statements and war's actual progress |
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| Strategic Arms Limitation Act |
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| Nixon visited Moscow signed several agreements to trade an limit arms with russia in 1969 |
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| Arab nations launched an oil embargo after US supported Israel |
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| 4th Largest air force in the world. |
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| Nixon hid an air war bombing North Viet Sancturaries from public |
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