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- 3. Made many Americans sympathetic toward enduring racial segregation
- 5. Leader of Civil Rights Movement; advocated civil disobedience
- 8. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; early non-violent tactics and everyone welcome; later radical tactics and only blacks
- 9. Southern Christian Leadership Conference; founded by MLK Jr.; non-violent and everyone welcome to join
- 12. Provided health care assistance to the poor
- 15. Great Society program intending to eliminate the national poverty rate by improving conditions
- 18. majority socially conservative Americans; elected Nixon as Pres.
- 19. (11/1955-4/1975) Cold War Proxy War; war between Democratic South Vietnam with U.S. assistance and the communist-backed Vietcong of North Vietnam
- 20. Guaranteed health insurance to Americans 65 and older
- 22. Amendment Abolished the poll tax
- 23. Year of social and political turmoil for the United States
- 24. Jr (April, 1968) Caused riots in over 100 cities; killed by James Earl Ray
- 25. First Presidential debates ever shown on TV
- 26. Gave Pres. LBJ authority to use military force without a declaration of war
- 30. Nonviolent group supporting the rights of farmworkers; mainly Filipino and Hispanic workers
- 31. Protested racial segregation on city busses; spurred by Rosa Parks’ arrest
- 34. SNCC members sat at segregated lunch counters; encouraged sit-ins all across the South
- 35. Integrated interstate bus rides into segregated parts of America
- 36. 35th President from 1961 until assassination in 1963; Democrat from Massachusetts
- 37. Outlawed literacy tests or poll taxes for would-be voters in the United States.
- 38. Nov, 1963 Dallas, TX; killed by Lee Harvey Oswald; impacted future civil rights policies
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- 1. LBJ’s program that would give all Americans a better standard of living and opportunities regardless of background
- 2. Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender; allowed all citizens to enter into any public facility; part of “Great Society” program
- 4. September 13, 1969; Apollo 11 became first manned U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon
- 6. Aug, 1963; speech given in front of 250,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. during the March on Washington
- 7. Founder and leader of the United Farm Workers Movement
- 10. Social movement by many different groups to gain equal civil rights across America
- 11. Written by MLK Jr.; defense of non-violent methods to attack racism
- 13. (Aug, 1968) Police beat antiwar protesters on live TV
- 14. (June, 1968) He was running for president; killed by Sirhan Sirhan on same night he won California and South Dakota primaries
- 16. Eight month long Vietcong campaign to drive out Americans (1968)
- 17. Broadcasts allowed people in their homes to see what was happening; led to Anti-Vietnam War movement
- 21. VP who became president after assassination of JFK
- 27. Revolution led by Fidel Castro to overthrow Cuban gov’t.
- 28. Failed attempt by CIA trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba’s Bay of Pigs
- 29. Belief that if one country in a region came under communist control, the surrounding countries would as well
- 32. Crisis (1962) Soviets built missile sites in Cuba; threatened U.S. national security forcing Kennedy to blockade Cuba
- 33. 1964 project to register African-American Mississippi voters