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Set up the idea of nonviolent protests and love for one another
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail
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Volunteers who give aid to other nations
What are the Peace Corps?
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Elected president in 1968 and 1972
Who is Richard Nixon?
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Signed the civil rights act in 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. He had a war on poverty in his agenda.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
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Politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
What is Realpolitik?
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Held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally
What is the March on Washington
200
Promotes land reforms and economic development in Latin America
What is the Alliance for progress?
200
Wife of John F. Kennedy
Who is Jackie Kennedy?
200
1964; Republican contender spread ideas of black nationalism. Disagreed with both the tactics and goals of the early civil rights movement. Minister of the nation of Isam. Rejected his original name because it was his family's slave name against LJB for presidency; platform included lessening federal involvement, therefore opposing Civil Rights Act of 1964; lost by largest margin in history.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
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President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.
What is Vietnamization?
300
A wall separating ast and West Berlin build by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
What is the Berlin Wall
300
The US Congress granted the White House unprecedented authority to negotiate tariff reductions of up to 50%
What is the Trade Expansion Act?
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Address made by Richard Nixon when accused of improprieties relating to a find.
What is the Checker Debate?
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Told the 1948 Democratic National Convention, "the time has arrived in America for the Democratic party to get out of shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights", winning support for a pro-civil rights plank in the party's platform. VP under Johnson
Who is Hubert Humphrey?
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A military campaign conducted between January 30 and September 23 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong, or National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, and the North Vietnamese army, or People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the US and their allies during the Vietnam War. Success for South Vietnam.
What is Tet Offensive?
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Movement in the US beginning in the 1960's and led primarily by blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual black citizens
What is the Civil Rights Movement
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
What was Kennedy's biggest blunder?
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During the grand opening ceremony of the American National Exhibition in Moscow Nixon and Soviet leader engage in a heated debate about capitalism and communism in the middle of a kitchen set up.
What is the Kitchen Debate?
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1st person to walk on the moon; U.S. Apollo 11; July 1969; his famous words- "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
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John Kennedy established the President's Commission on the Status of Women, which brought national attention to sexual discrimination. Also in 1963, Kennedy helped pass this, which barred the pervasive practice of paying women less then men for the same work.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
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Murdered on a motel balcony
What is MLK Jr. Assassination
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Soviet missiles found in Cuba and Kennedy set up blockage to stop soviet ships from going to Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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His brother, Robert Kennedy
Who was Kennedy's Attorney General?
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An African-American Civil Right's Activist who was peaceful. he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his cause. He was assassinated in 1968 in Tennessee.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
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Ohio College where an anti-war protest got way out of hand, the National Guard was called in and killed 3 students (innocent and unarmed, wounded 9) in indiscriminate fire of M-1 rifles.
What is Kent State?