apush ch. 39 terms
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155817362 | john f. kennedy | president assassinated in Texas; involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis | |
155817363 | robert f. kennedy | Attorney General during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Assassinated by Sirhan Biashara Sirhan | |
155817364 | robert s. McNamara | US Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, became discouraged by lack of America's success in the war. Wanted to end it. | |
155817365 | Charles de Gaulle | French general and statesman, the leader of the Free French forces in exile | |
155817366 | Martin Luther King Jr. | AfricanAmerican civil rights leader, "I Have A Dream" speech | |
155817367 | Lee Harvey Oswald | United States assassin of JFK, shot by Jack Ruby | |
155817368 | Lyndon B. Johnson | The US president who privately wanted to stay out of Vietnam but sent soldiers because his goal was to stop the spread of communism | |
155817369 | Barry Goldwater | senator of AZ, LBJ beat in the election | |
155817370 | Malcom X | Encouraged violence and wanted separate black communities, converted to a Black Muslim in jail | |
155817371 | Hubert H. Humphrey | Vice president elected in 1964, Politics of Joy | |
155817372 | George Wallace | Four time governor of Alabama. Most famous for his pro-segregation attitude and as a symbol for states' rights. | |
155817373 | peaceful coexistence | for two nations to tolerate each other enough to where nothing will result in war, how Krushchev described U.S and soviet | |
155817374 | new frontier | The "new" liberal and civil rights ideas advocated by Kennedy, in contrast to Eisenhower's conservative view. | |
155817375 | peace corps | a civilian organization sponsored by the United States government, controlled by JFK | |
155817376 | Bay of Pigs | Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government, wanted to overthrow Castro. | |
155817377 | War on Poverty | President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's, provide greater social services for the poor and elderly | |
155817378 | Great society | LBJ's policies of fighting poverty and racial injustice, the term for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration | |
155817379 | cuban missile crisis | the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba, brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. | |
155817380 | 24th amendment | eliminated the poll tax as a voting requirement | |
155817381 | Tet offensive | surprise attacks on cities all over South Vietnam, no safe place |