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| Kennedy's opening speech talked about change, in a "New Frontier." |
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| The armed fight against insurgency (Vietnam) |
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| Seperation of East and West Berlin by the Berlin wall. Russia held sway over East Berlin, and France, Britain, and the U.S. controlled West |
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Civil Rights activists rode busses and other public transportation into the South, forcing the Southern states to comply with the Boynton vs. Virginia
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| Organization that raised money to educate Southern voters. Hoped to stop massive demonstration, and move towards voting to get things changed. |
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| Micheal Harrington's book about the poverty in America. Supported medicare, medicade and food stamps. |
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| Book by Kennedy about 8 U.S. Senators who crossed party lines, suffered severe criticism, and generally did everything they could to make moral change. |
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| Failed attempt of the U.S. to invade Southern Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro |
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| Confrontation between Russia, Cuba vs. U.S.Russia almost built missile bases in Cuba, U.S. told them to stop. Both agreed to disarm (Russia disarmed from Cuba, and U.S. disarmed in Turkey) |
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| Atomic Test Ban Treaty 1963 |
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| Banned the testing of Nuclear Weapons except for underground |
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| Politician and Police Officer who fought against Integration (one of the speeches in class!) |
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| . The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States understand U.S. culture, and helping Americans understand the cultures of other countries. |
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| The period between 1945 and 1968 saw the first stage of United States global hegemony and domestic affluence |
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| The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched during this period |
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| The War on Poverty is the name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. The speech led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty. |
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| Banned Racial Segregation in the schools, workplace, and by places that serve the general public |
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| Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) |
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| Administered the War on Poverty Programs |
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| The idea that the U.S. needed to "contain" Communism wherever it appeared, using military, economic, and political means |
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| Conflict between Republic of Korea and the Democratic Peoples Republic of China. The U.S. supported the Republic, while China and U.S.S.R. supported the communist government. Settled for a border |
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| National Organization of Women (NOW) |
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| works to secure political, professional, and educational equality for women |
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| Set up borders for Palestine and Israel |
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French Battle against the Viet Mihn communists
French were defeated |
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| Leader of Communists in Vietnam |
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South East Asia Treaty Organization
Formed to stop further Communist movement in South East Asia |
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| Also known as the National Liberation Front (NLF) fought against south Vietnam and the U.S. |
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Ambassador to South Vietnam who told the U.S. to not stop the overthrow of the Vietnamese government
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| Syngman Rhee- South Korea |
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| President of South Korea during the Korean War |
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| First President of South Vietnam after French-Indochina War |
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| Flexible response was a defense strategy implemented by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of Dwight Eisenhower's New Look and its policy of Massive Retaliation. Flexible response calls for mutual deterrence at strategic, tactical, and conventional levels, giving the United States the capability to respond to aggression across the spectrum of warfare, not limited only to nuclear arms. |
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| Monks who set themselves on fire to protest the South Vietnamese government |
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| Group of South Vietnamese generals overthrew Ngo Dinh Diem's government |
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| North Vietnamese and American navy have violent incidents, giving LBJ the authority to help any South East Asian country combat communism |
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| land find enemy, eliminate them, and then remove forces (helicopter was very helpful) |
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| hawks were war advocates, doves were war dissenters |
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| If one country came under communism, it would spread to surrounding countries (domino effect) |
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| village of My Lai wiped out by American Soldiers (mostly women and children) |
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| bombing raids done by the U.S. Air Force during Vietnam era. |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Community which later formed the Black Panthers |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| Gathering of Hippies to protest the Vietnam War |
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