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| John F. Kennedy | Elected president in 1960; was the first Catholic president; was the youngest president; supported lower taxes, equal rights, and a peaceful coesxistence in the world; assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| Robert F. Kennedy | Attorney general under JFK |
| Robert S. McNamara | Left Ford Motors presidency behind and became the Secretary of Defense under the Kennedy administration. One of the architects of the military docrine "Flexible Response." |
| Charles de Gaulle | French leaer, which opposed US, involved in Europe; vetoed British membership in Common Market Membership; developed small arsenal of atomic weapons to maintain French independence. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Led a peaceful movement for civil rights; led the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; King died on April 4, 1968. |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | Assassinated president Kennedy. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Vice president to Kennedy; Took over when Kennedy was assassinated; became elected president in 1964 when he beat Goldwater; Accomplished much for civil rights including the Great Society programs of the late 1960s. |
| Barry Goldwater | Republican who ran against Johnson in 1964 as Republican ticket. |
| Malcolm X | Favored black separatism and condemned "blue-eyed white devils"; Was killed while preaching in 1965 in New York by black Muslims. |
| Stokely Carmichael | Helped Martin Luther King Jr. lead the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; voter registration march through Mississippi. |
| J. William Fulbright | Headed Senate committee for Foreign Relations and was opposed to the American intervention in the VietNam conflict. |
| Eugene McCarthy | Threw his hat in democratic running in 1968; rang doorbells to get popularity. |
| Hubert M. Humphrey | Democratic nominee for 1968 elections. |
| Richard M. Nixon | Republican nomination for 1968 election, won. |
| George Wallace | American independent nominee for 1968 election. |
| Flexible Response | Depeloping a whole array of military options that could be precisely matched to the scope and importance of the crisis. |
| Peaceful coexistence | Kennedy urged Americans to forget Russia's past image and try to create a peaceful coesixtence, Nikita Krushchev agreed. |
| New Frontier | The term for Kennedy's presidential actions and platform; a patriotic platform calling for peace, better economy, trade and qual rights. |
| Peace Corps | Volunteer organization which helped give American skills to underdeveloped countries. |
| Vienna Summit | Khrushchev meets with Kennedy; Russia threats to cut off west from Berlin, but Kennedy states he won't be bullied around; Kennedy ups the army, Russia backs down but builds Berlin wall. |
| Trade Expansion Act | Cut tariff's fifty percent to promote trade. |
| Viet Cong | North Vietnam forces, which supported communism. |
| Alliance for Progress | Latin America Marshall Plan; provide back for Latin America and close the gap between rich and poor. |
| Bay of Pigs | Americans supported an exiled Cuban uprising, which landed at the Bay of Pigs; old information and bad communication led to its failure. |
| War on Poverty | Johnson's add-on to Kennedy's bills, called for a billion dollar aid for poverty stricken Americans. |
| Great Society | The name of Johnson's idles and plans during his term; new deal-ish economics and welfare measures aimed at transforming American way of life. |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | American gunboats were cruising along N. Vietnam and were fired upon, flared into a crisis; Resolution was passed by Congress which gave the president a blank check in Southeast Asia. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Soviets built nuclear missile sites in Cuba, threatened America; Kenedy quarantined Cuba and demanded sites removed; Russia removed sites and helped to the disarmament of nuclear weapons. |
| nuclear test ban treaty | Resolved that nations would not detonate atomic weapons into the atmosphere (i.e. above ground testing). |
| March on Washington | Peaceful march led by Martin Luther King Jr. to support the proposed equal rights legislation. |
| 24th Amendment | Eliminated poll tax in all states. |
| Voting Rights Act | Eliminated literacy tests and sent federal voter officers to make sure people were allowed to vote. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Gave power to government to make sure there wasn't segregation in public places etc; especially education. |
| Pueblo Incident | American intelligence ship seized in international waters; crew held for eleven months. |
| Tet Offensive | Vietnamese new year; Viet Cong attacked 37 key South Vietnam sites. |
| counterculture | Opposed to traditional American ways. |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | One of the most destructive and significant bombing raids of the Viet Nam conflict. |
