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Early 1960s
American History
Term | Definition |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | Became president after JFK was assassinated. |
Berlin Wall | Prevented the communist east people from escaping to the free west. |
John F. Kennedy | First Roman Catholic to be elected president. |
Richard Nixon | Ran against Kennedy and lost. |
Neil Armstrong | First person to walk on the moon. |
Yuri Gagarin | First person to orbit the earth-Soviet |
Lee Harvey Oswald | Shot and killed JFK. |
Jack Ruby | Shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. |
Nikita Krushchev | Soviet leader |
Fidel Castro | Cuban leader |
Bay of Pigs | Failed military invasion that made Kennedy look bad. |
Cuban Missile Crisis | Castro allowed Soviets to place missiles on Cuban soil pointed towards the U.S. |
Alliance for Progress | Gave poor Latin American countries money to try to help them and make them like us so they would not turn to communism. |
Limited Test Ban Theory | Made them stop testing nuclear weapons in the air. |
Warren Commission | Determined that JFK was killed by only one person and that it was not a conspiracy. |
New Frontier | Kennedy's plan to win the space race, help solve problems in other countries and end poverty. |
The Great Society | Johnson's plan to help get people out of poverty and give people equal rights. |
Woodstock | Peaceful rock concert in the middle of a field. |
Peace Corps | Created to send volunteers into poor countries to help them create programs and hopefully keep them from turning to Communism. |
John Glenn | First American to orbit the earth. |
Counterculture | Group of people that went against traditional American lifestyles; hippies. |
Communes | People living together as a group sharing everything. |
Hotline of 1963 | Easier communication during a crisis |
Hippie Movement | Long hair, colorful beads, tie-dyed clothing, ragged jeans |
"Flexible response" military strategy | allowed U.S. to fight limited wars |
"Tune in, turn on, drop out" | Move away from established lives and create a life of peace and harmony |
Goal of the Bay of Pigs Invasion | Get rid of Castro |