JFK Abroad
In place of “massive retaliation,” John F. Kennedy adopted this approach to foreign threats.
Flexible response
He was Lyndon Johnson’s Republican opponent in the presidential election of 1964.
Barry Goldwater
This three-day outdoor concert brought together elements of the 1960s counterculture.
Woodstock
This effort beginning in 1960 served to increase the number of young people involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
Sit-in Movement
Richard Nixon occupied this position from 1953 to 1961.
Vice-Presidency
This action was intended to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro but ended up increasing his popularity.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This program, part of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, provided pre-Kindergarten education to the poor.
Head Start
In the late 1960s, student protests focused on this issue, making use of teach-ins and demonstrations.
opposition to Vietnam War
This event culminated in Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech.
The March on Washington
This was the term for Richard Nixon’s effort to win over white Southern Democrats.
the Southern strategy
This effort to improve the image of the United States around the world involved sending volunteers to Third-World nations.
The Peace Corps
This action in March 1965 resulted in increased Chinese aid to Vietnam and more troops in the South.
Operation Rolling Thunder or bombing of North Vietnam
Launched in at UC-Berkely in California in response to an effort by university administrators to bar political speech.
Free Speech Movement
During Freedom Summer northern college students came to this state to hold Freedom Schools and conduct voter registration drives.
Mississippi
Term for the effort to replace U.S. troops with South Vietnamese troops in the Vietnam War.
Vietnamization
Kennedy denounced this action on the part of East Germany (supported by the Soviet Union) but regarded it as a political victory.
building of the Berlin Wall
Two healthcare programs instituted under Lyndon John, one providing health care to the elderly and the other to the poor.
Medicare and Medicaid
Her book criticized the ideal of female domesticity in the early 1960s.
Betty Friedan
This organization, originally focused on nonviolence, became militant in the late 1960s and lost white liberal support.
SNCC
The War Powers Act (1973) says that the President must secure this in order to use troops for longer than 60 days.
approval of Congress
Kennedy approved this solution to the problem of President Diem’s unpopular regime in South Vietnam.
a coup
The two factors limited the funding available for Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Programs.
tax cut and money spent on Vietnam
He worked to organize farm workers (many Latino) and to seek better wages and working conditions in the 1960s and 1970s.
César Chavez
How the Kennedy administration aided the Freedom Riders.
Sent federal marshalls to protect them
He was the only individual convicted in response to the My Lai Massacre – though he was eventually pardoned.
William Calley