Vocabulary
This was a massive National Security Threat to the nation in the 1960s. Delt with a small country off the coast.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
This area was long desegregated since WW2 and gave poeple hope that Civil Rights were possible
What is the Military
What was the "Flexible Response" policy?
A strategy to use a range of options (military and non-military) to fight communism.
This powerhouse concert took place in 1969 and definded an era of cultural changes
What is Woodstock
What is the Bay of Pigs
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This was the court case that desegregated the schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
What are the Black Panthers
Why was the first televised presidential debate in 1960 significant?
Kennedy’s appearance and confidence on camera helped him win over TV viewers.
This became a popular slogan during the 1960s used to refer to their opinion on the wars the US had entered during the decade.
What is make love not war
This is the Court battle that established that women had a right to abortion
This was the movement to leave or fight against the current national culture
What is Counterculture
This was the most impactful speech for Civil Rights delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial
What is the I Have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
This program was designed to increase educational and employment opportunities for women and minorities
What is Affirmative Action
This is a common item that was becoming more and more accepted and used by the majority of Counterculture members.
What is Drug use
What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Soviets pulled their missiles out of Cuba, and the US promised to remove their missiles from Turkey
This is a form of protesting where you break the law in a peaceful form of political protes
What is Civil Disobedience.
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This Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was LBJ's biggest contribution to the domestic life of Americans
What is the Great Society
This is what the democratic party started to move towards from a major influence of the New Left.
What is an Absence of Idivual Freedom
Who is credited with assassinating JFK
Lee Harvey Oswalt
The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963:
Ended the testing of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere.
The "War on Poverty" included the creation of which agency?
The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
The Warren Commission was established to investigate:
The assassination of John F. Kennedy.
What did the "Free Speech Movement" at UC Berkeley protest?
The university has a ban on political leafleting and campus activism.
The great society was labeled this because of what reason?
What are The most liberal Poltcal reforms since the New Deal?