Unit 8- JFK, LBJ, & Civil Rights Movements

JFK

• The Democratic nominee for president in 1960 was a young Massachusetts senator named John F. Kennedy.

Richard Nixon

• Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office

Lyndon B. Johnson

• LBJ was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
• Assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963.

Nikita Khrushchev

• He was the leader of USSR.
• Believed in expansion in Latin America would be easy.
• 1962- secretly build missles.

Peace Corp.

• A volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States

Job Corp

• The main reason why it was initiated as the central program of the J. Admin. property was becuase it was part of his domestic agenda

Bay of Pigs

• Cuba nationalized its economy and took over U.S. owned sugar mills and refineries
• April, 1961, 1,200 Cuban exiles met 25,000 Cuban troops backed by Soviet tanks and were soundly defeated.

Cuban Missile Crisis

• In 1962, American spy planes discovered sites that contained missiles.
• JFK ordered them to be removed.

Berlin Wall

• Just after midnight on August 13,1961, a wall of 90 miles began to be constructed
• This separated the East with the West.

Warren Court

• refers to the Supreme Court of the United States during the period when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice

Miranda warning

• is a right to silence warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody

Great Society

• A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

Medicare

• Medicare was created in 1965 when people over 65 found it virtually impossible to get private health insurance coverage.

Medicaid

• federal and state program that helps low-income individuals or families pay for the costs associated with long-term medical and custodial care, provided they qualify

NASA

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

Immigration Act 1965

• Established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.

TITLE ix

• states that: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance

Martin L King Jr

• was a preacher
• encouraged people to not follow unjust laws

Thurgood Marshall

• Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.

Malcolm X

• Believed Separatism was the only way
• But A.A. should be offered the same opportunities.

James farmer

• co-founded the Committee of Racial equality
• Sought to bring an end ti racial segregation.

Montgomery Bus BOYCOTTS

• Was a mass protest by African American citizens in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, against Segregation policies on the city's public buses.

Little Rock 9

• a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Brown v Board of Education

• a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

24th Amendment

• Prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.

Civil Rights Act 1964

• is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

UC vs Bakke

• Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process

Feminine Mystique

• 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.

united farm workers

• is a union for agricultural laborers, primarily in California

Cesar Chavez

• Self taught Mexican-American who is inspired by the Civil rights movement

American Indian MOVEMENT

• Militant American Indian civil rights organization, founded in Minneapolis, Minn

stonewall inn riots

• were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn