| A | B |
|---|
| New Frontier | An ambitious series of social and economic programs advocated by JFK |
| Great Society | Social and economic programs advocated by LBJ |
| Richard Nixon | Republican candidate for President in 1960; he proposed to continue Eisenhower's policies |
| John F. Kennedy | Democratic candidate for President in 1960; he promised a New Frontier |
| Earl Warren | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who oversaw the Kennedy assassination investigation |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | He became President after JFK was assassinated |
| Medicare | Federal subsidized health care for the elderly |
| socialized medicine | Federal run heath care system (feared by the medical profession) |
| Medicaid | Federal program which subsidized medical expenses of welfare recipients of all ages |
| War on Poverty | Ambitious, controversial federal program which sought to eradicate poverty |
| redistribution of income | Proposal which would involve the use of taxes and transfer payments to shift income from one group to provide financial help for another |
| Robert Weaver | The secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); he was the first African American cabinet member |
| Ralph Nader | Passionate consumer advocate |
| Third World | Economically underdeveloped nations; particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America |
| flexible response | foreign policy which looked at a variety of options to handle overseascrises |
| Green Berets | Special forces in the U.S. army |
| Alliance for Progress | a series of cooperative projects and agreeements between the U.S. and Latin American countries |
| Peace Corps | Federal program begun by JFK which sent American volunteers to work in developing countries |
| Berlin Wall | a concrete and barbed-wire barriers between East and West Berlin |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | the most dangerous crisis of the Cold War |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Soviet Premier who took a hard line approach to US/USSR relations |
| SDS | Students for a Democratic Society; they formed this group to give voice to their political beliefs |
| Free Speech Movement | 1964 University of Berkeley group formed to solicit volunteers and funds for off-campus causes |
| counterculture | Youth movement which showed contempt for traditional values |
| hippies | Counterculture followers who attempted to withdraw from society and live together in communes |
| National Organization for Women | Political group which pushed for women's civil rights |
| American Indian Movement | Political group which pushed for Native American's civil ritghts |
| United Farm Workers | Political group which went on strike in 1965 to demand union recognition, increased wages and benefits for farm workers |
| bilingualism | Movement in public education which called for the instruction of subjects in two languages |
| Tom Hayden | Leader of the SDS |
| Betty Friedan | Leader of NOW |
| Cesar Chavez | Leader of the United Farm Workers |
