| A | B |
|---|
| John F. Kennedy | 35th President of US |
| Televised Debate | Replaced written word in politics |
| Defense Policy | Moving from bomb to flexible response. |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban Revolutionary Leader |
| Cuba | Allies with Russia |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Russian moved nuclear missles and troops to Cuba. |
| Berlin Wall | Built to keep people under communist rule. |
| Hot Line (Red Phone) | Set up between USA and Soviets to communicate immediately. |
| Bay of Pigs | Attempt to remove Castro from power. |
| Limited Test Ban Treaty | Part of flexible response |
| New Frontier-failed part | Medical care for elderly and education aid. |
| New Frontier-passed | Boost economy, national defense, International aid, Space program. |
| Peace Corps | Volunteers to help in developing countries. |
| Alliance for Progress | Assistance to Latin American countries. |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space |
| Space Program | Houston and Florida |
| Alan Shepard | 1st US astronaut in space. |
| John Glenn | 1st to orbit the earth |
| Apollo I | Grissom, White, Chaffee died flash fire. |
| Apollo II - 1st to moon | Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin |
| Hubble Telescope | 1st in space |
| Challenger & Columbia | Exploded space crafts |
| JFK Assassination | Oswald shot Kennedy in Dallas |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | Shot Kennedy |
| Jack Ruby | Shot Oswald |
| Warren Commission | Investigated assassination of Kennedy |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | "Great Society" |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Outlawed racial discrimination. |
| South Vietnam | LBJ sent troops to fight communism. |
| Office of Economic Opportunity | Youth Job Corp., VISTA, Head Start |
| Civil Rights Act | Ban discrimination in housing, education, employment. |
| VISTA | Volunteer in Service to America |
| Project Head Start(Educational) | Prep for children from poor families. |
| Great Society | Medicaid, Head Start, Free School lunches |
| Medicaid program | extended medical benefits for welfare recipients |
| Camelot | Refers to Kenndy's |
| Defacto Segregation | practice and custom |
| Dejure Segregation | by law |
| Brown v. Board of Education | NAACP challenged school segregation |
| Thurgood Marshall | Lawyer for Linda Brown |
| Brown Decision | Reversed Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Southern Manifesto | Document to use lawful means to oppose integration. |
| Little Rock Nine | National Guard brough in to prevent AA students from attending white school. |
| James Meredith | Banned from enrolling at Ole Miss |
| University of Alabama | Wallace the governor stood in the doors of the school to prevent intgeration. |
| Rosa Parks | Freedom Rider - took seat in front of the bus. |
| Montgomery Improvement Asso. | Formed by NAACP |
| Martin Luther King | Lead a boycott of city buses, MLK became a national figure. |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | 382 days not using buses |
| HUD | Low income Housing & Urban Development |
