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| Federal Highway Act of 1956 |
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| Measure that provided federal funding to build a nationwide system of interstate and defense highways. |
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| Popular name for the military doctrine adopted in the 1950s, whereby the U.S. promised to respond to any attack on itself or its allies with massive force including nuclear weapons. |
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| National Aeronautics and space administration (Nasa) |
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| Federal agency created in 1958 to manage American space flights and exploration |
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| John F. Kennedy's domestic and foreign policy initiatives designed to reinvigorate a sense of national purpose and energy. |
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| Site in Cuba of an unsuccessful landing by fourteen hundred anti-Castro Cuban refugees in April 1961 |
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| Wall erected by East Germany in 1961 that isolated West Berlin from the surrounding areas in Communist-controlled East Berlin and East Germany |
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| Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) |
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| Mutual defense alliance signed in 1954 by the united states Britain France Thailand Pakistan the Philippines Australia and new zealand |
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| Communist rebels in South Vietnam who fought the pro-American government established in South Vietnam in 1954 |
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| Program of economic aid to Latin America during the Kennedy administration. |
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| Treaty signed by the united states, Britain and the soviet union, outlawing nuclear testing in the atmosphere in outer space and under water |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
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| Supreme Court decision in 1954 that declared that "separate but equal" schools for children of different races violated the Constitution. |
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| A document signed by 101 members of Congress from Southern states in 1956 that argued that the supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of education of Topeka itself contradicted the constitution. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) |
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| Black Civil rights organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other clergy. |
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| Student Nonviolent coordinating committee |
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| Black civil rights organization founded in 1960 and drawing heavily on younger activists and college students. |
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| Congress of racial equality (CORE) |
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| Civil Rights group formed in 1942 and committed to nonviolent civil disobedience. |
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| Set of ;programs introduced by Lyndon Johnson between 1963 and 1966 designed to break the cycle of poverty by providing funds for job training, community development nutrition and supplementary education. |
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| Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) |
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| Federal agency that coordinated many programs of the war on poverty between 1964 and 1975 |
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| Federal Legislation that outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment on the basis of race, skin color, sex, religion, or national origin. |
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| Voter registration effort in rural Mississippi organized by black and white civil rights workers in 1964 |
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| Legislation in 1965 that overturned a variety of practices by which states systematically denied voter registration to minorities. |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| Request to Congress from President Lyndon Johnson in response to North Viet torpedo boat attacks in which he sought authorization for "all necessary measures" to protect American forces and stop further aggression. |
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| Theme of Lyndon Johnson's administration focusing on poverty, education, and civil rights. |
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| Basic Medical insurance for the elderly, financed through the federal government; program created in 1965 |
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| Supplementary medial insurance for the poor, financed through the federal government program created in 1965. |
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