| A | B |
|---|
| Richard M. Nixon | republican nominee for 1960 election |
| JFK | democratic nominee for the 1960 elecion, comm. WW2 ship, US and MA senator, pulitzer prize winner |
| missle gap | JFK said we had this w/ the USSR (they had more toys) |
| New Frontier | not too successful, JFK's domestic agenda (he was afraid to push too hard in congress) |
| closet conservative | JFK was really kinda conservative..he cut taxes and fought commies |
| Peace Corps | JFK's plan to help 3rd world nations & help prevent more commies |
| Yuri Gagarin | from USSR...1st man in space |
| John Glenn | first American in space |
| Neil Armstrong | in 1969 1st man on the moon (nixon prez-Apollo 11) |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | killed JFK on Nov. 22, 63 |
| Jack Ruby | killed the guy who killed JFK (who was that anyway?) |
| Warren Commision | decided that JFK's assassin acted alone (hey who was that guy anyway?) |
| Sen. Barry Goldwater | republican candidate for prez in 64. Reagan gave nominating speech (really conservative, undo New Deal) |
| Daisy ad | little girl pickin daisies and then there's a neuclear explosion (against AUH2O) |
| mandate | landslide |
| medicare | gov't health care for old |
| medicade | gov't health care for poor |
| HUD | dept. of Housing and Urban Development-gov't subsided housing for the poor |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 | made it so someone couldn't disobey 15th Amendment |
| 1896 Plessey v. Ferguson | precedent that determined race relations until the 50s (made segregation legal) |
| Brown v. Board of Education | required integration (Eisenhower) |
| NAACP | civil rights group that pushed for B v. BoE |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP's lawyer in B v. BoE, 1st black justice of the supreme court |
| Orval Faubus | refused to integrate little rock's central high school in 57 |
| Rosa Parks | started the montgomery bus boycott in 55 |
| MLK, Jr. | civil rights leader that rose to prominence during montgomery boycott |
| SCLC | southern christian leadership conference (founded by MLK) |
| Ghandi and Thoreau | ideas were drawn from these dudes about boycotting by MLK |
| Jim Crow | the system of seperate and unequal treatment of blacks in the south |
| sit-ins | the act of protesting by sitting down in "white only" places |
| Ella Baker | guiding spirit behind Studen Non-violent Coordinating Committee |
| freedom riders | people from DC going to New Orleans to test the law...they got beaten up anyway...led by CORE |
| James Meredith | first black student in ole miss |
| George Wallace | 3rd partay candidate in 68..alabama governer that pledged to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to prevent integration |
| March on Washington | summer of 63...200,000people to rally support of civil rights bill... Mr. MLK jr. said his "I HAVE A DREAM" speach |
| Malcom X | wanted separatism. member of Nation of Islam "by any means necessarry" assassinated by members of NoI because he "wasn't racist enough"! |
| Stokely Charmichael | "black power" |
| Black Panthers | used violence and weapons against the police |
| James Earl Ray | assassinated MLK in 68 |
| USS Pueblo | US spy ship attacked by N. Korea |
| Hubert Humphry | democratic runner in 68, LBJ's VP |
| Eugene McCarthy | democratic runner in 68, Minn. Sen. |
| Bob Kennedy | democratic runner in 68, JFK's atty. general |
