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P - Fidel Castro
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1955-1973
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S/P/I - Congress handed down a 2nd Brown ruling
Desegregated schools "with al deliberant speed" -
S - Murder of Emmett Till
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S - Rosa Parks
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P/I - America places Ngo Dinh Diem in power
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S - Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation
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P - Vietcong
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S/I - Little Rock
National Guard called to keep black students out of a white school. -
S/P - Civil Rights Act of 1957
Gave attorney general power over school desegregation -
S/I - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
"to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship." - Martin Luther King Jr. -
S - First debate for Presidency televised
Between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Kennedy reigned victorious and changed America's opinion of him. -
S - Mrs.Kennedy became an American fashion symbol
America became obsessed -
P - American U2 spy plane shot down
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I - ECHO
NASA deployed ECHO, the first communications satellite that can be seen by the naked eye. -
E - deficit spending advocated
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S/I - Soviets send first man into space
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S/P - Kennedy gives his inauguration address
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S/E - Affirmative Action
Forced companies to hire more minority groups. -
S - Peace Corps founded
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P - Bay of Pigs failure
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S/P - Alliance for Progress founded
Its side intentions were to prevent Fidel Castro from exporting his ideas to Latin American countries. -
E - minimum wage increased by $1.25 an hour
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E - Unemployment extended
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S/P - Berlin Wall constructed
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E/P - Department of Defense
Recieved a 20% budget increase to create nuclear missiles, submarines, and expansion of armed services. -
I - American John Glenn orbited the earth 3 times
Our science level has increased by 1. -
S - Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring
Warned of dangers of pollution and first time DDT was seen as a threat. -
S/P - Cuban Missile Crisis
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S/P/I - Martin Luther Jr.'s "I Have a Dream"
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S/P - Warren Commission
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P - Limited Test Ban
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S/P - President Kennedy assassinated
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P - Lyndon B. Johnson became President
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S - The Beatles began to gain popularity
And the rest is history -
E - Johnson declared war on American poverty
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S/P/I - 1964 Civil Rights Act
First bill passed to stop racial discrimination -
S/I - Brown vs. Board of Education
Ruled school segregation unconstitutional -
S/P/E/I - Great Society
It was economic because all of the money for it went to the war and the Great Society was never carried out. -
S/P/I - Freedom Summer
SNCC trying to convince Congress to pass a voting rights act. -
S/P - Warren Court
Banned prayer in public school -
E - Economic Opportunity Act
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E - Job Corps youth training program
EOA legislation created this -
E - VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)
EOA legistation created this -
E - Project Head Start
EOA legislation created this -
P/E - Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Granted Johnson military power in Vietnam. Gave him a blank check for the war. -
S/P - Immiogration Act of 1965
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P - Robert McNamara and Dean Rusk
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S/P - Voting Rights Act of 1965
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E - Medicare
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E - Medicaid
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E - War creates manufacuring jobs
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S/I - Black Panther Party founded
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S - Miranda vs. Arizona
Created Miranda Rights -
S/P - credibility gap
Separated the President from his people -
I - First heart transplant
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P - Tet Offensive
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S/I - Kerner Commission
President wanted to study the causes of urban violence. White racism proved to be the culprit. -
S/P/I - Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Led to urban rioting -
S/P - Civil Rights Act of 1968
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S/P - Vietnamization
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S/P - Richard Nixon elected President
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S/P/I - Apollo 11 landed on the moon
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -
S/P/I - Kent State
Outraged the country and put more pressure on the President -
S/P/I - Pentagon Papers
Outraged the country -
S/P - Last U.S. combat troops leave Vietnam
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E - Total cost of war: $150,000,000,000
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E - Keynesian economics
Advocated a mixed economy -
P - War Powers Act
President must tell Congress (within 48 hours) if U.S. forces are sent into a hostile area without declaration of war. -
S - Saigon falls