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1960s
Term | Definition |
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John F. Kennedy | Elected president in 1960; created the Peace Corps; proposed civil rights legislation; dealt with the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis |
John Glenn | First American to orbit the earth |
Bay of Pigs | US supported Cuban exiles were defeated in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro |
Cuban Missile Crisis | Kennedy ordered a blockade around Cuba as Castro and the Soviet Union tried to install nuclear missiles on Cuba; the world was very close to nuclear war |
Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Great Society | |
Barry Goldwater | |
Anti-war Movement | |
Feminist Movement | |
Betty Friedan | |
Title IX | |
Black power Movement | |
Black Panthers | |
Chicano Movement | |
Hector Garcia | |
Cesar Chavez | |
Delores Hurerta | |
Am. Indian Movement | |
Mendez v. Westminister | |
Hernandez v. Texas | |
Delgado v. Bastrop | |
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby | |
White v. Regester | |
Vietnam War | |
Domino Theory | |
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | |
Vietnamization | |
Roy Benavidez | |
Tet Offensive | |
Credibility Gap | |
Silent Majority | |
Fall of Saigon | |
Beat Generation |