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| Overthrew Batiste, and created a communist government in Cuba |
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| Americans volunteered for two years in developing countries |
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| This amendment limited a president's time in office to two elected terms |
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| President Kennedy chose his brother Robert to serve in his cabinet as this. |
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| First Catholic, and youngest president ever elected. |
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| The Area Redevelopment Act provided this to poorer regions of the country |
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| Underwater and in the atmosphere |
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| The Limited Test Ban Treaty, signed by the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, stopped the testing of nuclear bombs here |
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| As a senator from Texas, he was very good at manipulating the senate to get his legislation passed |
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| His physical appearance in the first televised presidential debate cost him the debate, and many say, the presidency |
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| Kennedy's foreign policy to have a n umber of different ways to solve an international crisis |
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| Kennedy believed by providing these with financial assistance, they became dependent on the U.S., and stayed away from Soviet influences |
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| After many of these gained independence, Kennedy called for increased economic aid |
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| Location of failed American-backed invasion attempting to get Castro out of power in Cuba |
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| In June of 1961 he ordered the West to remove all troops from West Berlin |
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| The semi-permanent and then permanent divider between East and West became known as this |
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| The first lady, Jackie Kennedy organized a major restoration of this |
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| This was the title for President Johnson's afforts to help the needy in the U.S. |
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| This program tried to provide free health care to the poor in the U.S. |
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| This was an attempt to provide low-income families with a pre-school program to keep their kids from falling behind |
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| Artists, Writers, Scholars |
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| The National Endowment for the Arts and national Endowment for the Humanities provide grants and fellowships for these |
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| Members of this were very young and inexperienced at a very difficult time in the world |
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| Title for President Kennedy's political agenda |
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| Kennedy called for this in an attempt to stimulate economic growth |
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| Kennedy had a difficult relationship with this, failing to get many of his initiatives passed |
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| Kennedy donated this to charity |
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| City where Kennedy was assassinated |
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| He was suspected as the assassin of President Kennedy |
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| President Johnson worked to gain these people jobs within the government |
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| President Johnson pushed legislation to help clean this up |
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| President Johnson sent troops here to put down what he thought was a communist revolution |
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| Title for Johnson's domestic policy |
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| Before running against Kennedy in 1960, Richard Nixon served as this under Eisenhower |
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| Gave the federal government control of voter registration |
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| Gove federal funds to private foundations that created voter registration programs |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| African-American organizations working to end discrimination in the U.S. united into this |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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| Young activists from the South who were working to end descrimination |
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| Malcolm X became the leading spokesman and minister for this more radical |
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| University of Mississippi |
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| James Meredith became the first African-American to graduate from here |
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| This brought young white college students to the South to assist in the voter registration projects |
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| African-American and white activists that fought against the discrimination on interstate buses |
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| Gave all Americans the right to be served in facilities open to the public |
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| Early leader of the Nation of Islam |
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| The Kerner Commission found that the race riots of 1965 and 1966 was caused by this |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated here on April 4th, 1968 |
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| This case banned Detroit's inner-city school districts from merging with the city's suburban districts |
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| These types of programs give preference to ethnic minorities and women in admissions to schools and hiring. |
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| University of California vs. Bakke |
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| The courts in this case ruled a white man can not be unfairly denied admission to a medical school due to "reverse discrimination" |
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| A fixed number of job or admission openings for a certain group of people |
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| Carl Stokes was the first black to be elected mayor of this city |
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| National Black Political Convention |
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| This organization was created to allow African Americans to continue to gain influence in the political arena |
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| Martin Luther King. Jr.'s tactic, taken from Gandhi, which would not allow protesters to harm anyone, regardless of what happened to them |
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| Tactic used in an attempt to integrate lunch counters |
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| Freedom Riders were viciously attacked here, and received no protection or assistance from the police |
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| Even though they were opposed to it, President Kennedy called for the enactment of Civil Rights legislation |
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| One of the things African Americans were threatened with losing if they registered to vote |
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| State where the first voter registration drive took place |
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| Part of the Poor People's Campaign, it closed a month after it was set up. |
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| Most whites, north and south, were opposed to using this to integrate public schools |
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| Albany's Chief of Police, he arrested protesters in his city |
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| Birmingham's volatile Chief of Police, who usaed dogs and fire hoses on protesters |
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| The Southern Christian Leadership Council learned from Birmingham that progress comes only when racists react to their peaceful protests with this |
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| There was very little of this present during the Albany protest |
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