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| a spy for the communist and convicted of perjury |
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| leader of allied forces in world war 2 and promoted business and continued social programs |
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| an American singer and actor, he was a cultural icon and is popularly thought of as the King of Rock and Roll. |
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| an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or from a nuclear blast. |
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| the 33rd U.S. President from 1945-1953, taking over after Franklin D. Roosevelt died. |
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| a list of people that where lied on people said they were communist |
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| The House Un-American Activities Committee. It was created in 1938 to investigate alleged communistic disloyalty |
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| julius and ethel rosenberg |
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| They were Jewish American communists who were executed in 1953 after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. |
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| military industrial complex |
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| a phrase used to signify a comfortable relationship between parties that are charged to manage wars |
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| National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which deals with researching space and the universe around us |
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| national defense education act |
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| provided $887 million over four years for education that could support national security |
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| program to reduce the death toll on the nation's roads |
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| realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II. |
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| a widely accepted group of practices or customs |
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| an act that tried to get more people to sign up to possibly get drafted for war |
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| the first satellite, launched by the Soviets in 1957 |
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| male professional jobs usually shirt and tie |
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| construction and hard hat jobs usually for men |
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| The right of citizens of the US to vote in any primary or other election f/ President or Vice President |
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| the encouragement of increased representation of women and minority-group members. |
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| a progressive political organization that stood in the movement for social change in America |
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| led by groups such as the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam fighting for equal rights and protected whats theirs |
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| dismantled the legal basis for racial segregation in schools |
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| An organization fighting for the rights of racial equality for all people. |
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| prohibited discrimination in public places, and stopped integration in schools |
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| investigated kennedy's assassination |
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| a group of people, both black and white, who were civil rights activists from the North |
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| focused his campaign on issues of blue collar anger in the north and racial tension |
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| was the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. |
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| 9 Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, AR |
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| a civil rights leader, known for his more aggressive policies for African American nationalism |
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| Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. |
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| used nonviolent means to get his point across |
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| when african americans stop using public transportation to prove a point |
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| civil rights worker who was arrested for not moving for a white male to sit down |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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| when people went to segregated restauraunts and sat at the counters and asked for menus and if they didnt get one they stayed sitting there |
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| a member of the Freedom Riders |
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| first african american supreme court justice |
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| voting rights act of 1965 |
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| It outlawed discriminatory voting practices. It helped get African Americans the right to vote |
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| 1968 democratic national convention |
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| `there were a lot of war protests during the convention |
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| Former Vice President Richard Nixon won the 1968 election over the Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey |
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| AIM has been committed to improving conditions faced by native peoples and they are still around today |
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| became the first president of the National Organization for Women. |
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| a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England,members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison |
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| usually inexpensive electronic device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic |
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| founded and led the first successful farm workers' union in U.S |
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| federal legislation designed to regulate and reduce air pollution in the United States. |
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| began commercial broadcasting, authorized by the FCC on Dec. 17 |
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| a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm |
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| women rights leader and founder of ms magazine |
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| Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. |
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| the area that defined the sixties with its hippy drug culture and rock and roll |
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| a program to help children, from birth to 5 years, get ready for Kindergarten |
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| increase homeownership, support community development and increase access to affordable housing. |
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| a highly destructive bomb that works by the nuclear fusion of deuterium |
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| a melodic death metal band from St. Charles, Illinois |
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| known for his firm handling of the cuban missile crisis |
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| an Officer of United States Marines with the rank of Major before chosen to become part of the Mercury 7 program |
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| was the thirty-sixth President of the United States |
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| federal health insurance prog for individuals age 65 and older |
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| national organization for women |
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| the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. |
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| the first man on the moon |
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| In the campaign President Kennedy spoke of moving aggressively into the new decade, for the New Frontier is here whether we seek it or not. |
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| associated with college campus protest movements of class-based oppression. |
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| a volunteer organization that travels around the world doing work to help interested countries |
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| a U.S.senator and the attorney general in the presidential administration |
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| a technological program intended to explore outer space |
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| was a riot that came from a police raid on the Stonewall Inn,a popular hang-out for gays in Greenwich in 1969 |
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| students for a democratic society |
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| an association of young people of the left |
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| a series of campaigns on issues |
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| A 3-day rock concert in 1969. It was billed as An Aquarian Exposition |
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| written by Betty Friedan and first published in 1963, sparked a national debate about women's roles |
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| limited the minimum voting age to no more than 18 |
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| a powerful herbicide and defoliant containing trace amounts of dioxin, a toxic impurity suspected |
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| it was the end of French military influence in Asia |
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| was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the North Vietnamese Army on April 30, 1975 |
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| the commanding General for all US forces in Vietnam during the Nixon era. |
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| gulf of tonkin resolution |
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| a congressional resolution passed in 1964 that authorized military action in Southeast Asia. |
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| a complex web of different jungle paths that enabled communist troops to travel from North |
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| US National Guard fired into a crowd of student demonstrators, killing 4 and wounding 9 |
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| a massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers |
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| - a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc |
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| became known as the Pentagon Papers Case |
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| operation rolling thunder |
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| a frequently interrupted bombing campaign from 1965 to 1968 during the Vietnam War |
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| was the agreement on that ended the war in Vietnam, It was signed in Paris on January 17, 1973 |
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| a top-secret Department of Defense history of United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam. |
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| an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the crisis. |
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| a military campaign conducted between 30 January and 23 September 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong |
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| a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War |
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| a U.S. policy during the Vietnam War of giving the S. Vietnamese government |
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| a US federal law providing that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if the United States is already under attack or serious threat. |
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