A | B |
Race Riots | occurred in Watts, Detroit, Chicago - Blacks looted and destroyed the cities |
Malcolm X | powerful leader of the Black Nationalists that was a member of the Black Muslims |
Kent State | student protestors were shot by National Guard troops |
Charles Manson | cult leader who was responsible for Helter Skelter |
Berlin Wall | President Kennedy went there on Aug. 1961 to give a speech denouncing it |
John Glen | astronaut who was the first person to orbit Earth |
Hippies | counter culture based on peace, love and humanity |
Neil Armstrong | first man to walk on the moon |
Robert Kennedy | Attorney General for JFK, later he ran for President and was assassinated in California |
Drugs | LSD, marijuana, etc. |
Jackie Kennedy | role model for women in the 60's she remarried to a wealthy Greek man |
Peace Corp | program designed by JFK to send college students to third world countries |
Roe v Wade | Supreme Court ruling which legalized abortion |
Woodstock | 3 day concert in upstate New York |
Lyndon B Johnson | President following JFK, escalation of the Vietnam Conflict and leader in the Civil Rights movement |
John F. Kennedy | President from 1961-1963 |
Martin Luther King Jr. | leader of the Civil Rights movement |