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A new government agency that sent thousands of men and women to developing nations to support local communities in areas like education, farming, and health care.
What is the Peace Corps?
Location of the concrete and barbed wire wall erected to prevent people living in the Communist Bloc from defecting to the West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
A failed April 17, 1961 attempt by exiled Cuban Nationals supported by the United States to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
John Kennedy's campaign platform of expanding opportunity through an increase in educational aid, new programs to end poverty, and a tax cut to stimulate growth.
What is the New Frontier?
Established in 1958 by President Dwight Eisenhower, this government organization was charged by President John Kennedy to land a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the 1960s.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)?
Author of Silent Spring who warned Americans about the dangers of industrial use of pesticides.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Location of a 1969 concert to celebrate counterculture values and ideals.
What is Woodstock, New York?
From October 22-28, 1962, this event is the closest the world has come to nuclear Armegeddon.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Lyndon Johnsons domestic policy campaign platform that "rests on abundance and liberty for all, demands and end to poverty and racial injustice, where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind to enlarge his talents..."
What is the Great Society?
In August 1964, this law was established to create an agency that oversees the Job Corps, Project Head Start, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
Ernesto Miranda's 1966 lawsuit, Miranda v. Arizona, resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that police must inform suspects of these rights prior to arrest.
What are the right to remain silent and the right to legal representation?
Location of the assassination of President John Kennedy.
What is Dallas, Texas?
This movement developed in response to University bans on groups like Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) expressing political ideas on campuses.
What is the Free Speech Movement?
A federal health insurance program that helps pay for hospital and nursing home services for US citizens age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Young Americans who were committed to upholding democratic American ideals, like all citizens having a say in government policy.
What is the New Left?
Young Americans who reject mainstream America's expect moral and social codes.
What is the counterculture?
Location of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
This eliminated quotas based on national origin, designating people's skills and ties to family in the United States as the key criteria for admission.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the establishment of many Civil Rights laws during the 1960s.
Who is Chief Justice Earl Warren?
A counterculture movement that sought expanded freedom of expression.
What are hippies?
Alabama city that was the destination of the Voting Rights March in 1965.
What is Selma, Alabama?
The name of the lunar module that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
What is Eagle?
A health insurance program jointly financed by federal and state governments that covers low-income and older Americans whose medical needs have exceeded Medicare benefits.
What is Medicaid?
President Lyndon Johnson program to eliminate poverty in the United States.
What is the War on Poverty?