| A | B |
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| NASA | Civilian space program in US |
| Space Race | extension of Arms Race - race of firsts in space between USSR and US |
| John Glenn | 1st American to orbit earth |
| Alan Shepard | 1st American in space |
| Neil Armstrong | 1st man on the moon - "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" |
| Project Mercury | 1st US space program - goal = put a man in space and return him safely |
| Project Gemini | 2nd American space program - goal = put muliple men and space and keep them there longer |
| Project Apollo | 3rd American space program - put a man on the moon and return him safely |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's domestic plan - aimed to help inner city poor - unpopular until after his death |
| Peace Corps | American college age students helping 3rd world countries - helped improve America's image overseas |
| Warren Commission | investigation of JFK's assassination led by chief Justice Earl Warren - concluded that Oswald acted alone |
| Greaty Society | Johnson's domestic plan that declared war on poverty - ultimately failed= too costly & Vietnam |
| Medicare | health insurance for the elderly - Great Society Program |
| Medicaid | heath insurance for the poor - Great Society Program |
| Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) | basically a domestic Peace Corps - help people in the inner cities |
| Head Start | preschool for the underprivileged youth |
| Cesar Chavez | founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) - 1st labor union of migrant farmers - led a boycott of grapes |
| American Indian Movement (AIM) | Indian rights movement of the 1960s - wanted greater land rights |
| Rachel Carson | author of "Silent Spring" - book that started the Environmental movement |
| Silent Spring | book by Rachel Carson that gets DDT banned - started Environmental Movement |
| Betty Friedan | author of The Feminine Mystique - started the women's liberation movement |
| Feminine Mystique | book by Betty Freidan that started Women's Liberation Movement |
| Gloria Steinem | supported of Women's Lib movement - supported the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) |
| Phyllis Schlafly | against Women's Movement & Equal Rights Amendments - believed ERA would hurt gender roles in the US |
| Equal Rights Amendment | proposed amendment to the Constitution that stated that it would be illegal to discriminate against people based on their sex or gender - did not get ratiffied |
| Roe v Wade | SC case that legalized abortion during the 1st trimester - women's right to choose |
| counterculture | aka = hippies - youth of the 1960s who were against the materialism of their parents |
| Haight Ashbury | street & neighborhood in San Francisco that was the center of the counter culture movement |
| Woodstock | pinacle of counterculture movement - concert |
| The Other America | book by Michael Harrington that exposed the horror of the inner-cites after the " White Flight" |
| Michael Harrigton | author of The Other America |
