REAL DIKA UNIT 8 FLASHCARDS

New Frontier

Nickname for Kennedy Administration

The Best and the Brightest

Nickname for people in Kennedy Administration

Profiles in Courage

Kennedy’s Book

Nixon

Who Kennedy defeated in 1960 Election

SLSC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

Group of Southern Preachers in Civil Rights Movement

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

Civil Rights Group that used students/Student group in Civil Rights Movement

Peace Corps

Kennedy program to spread democracy among young people

Alliance for Progress

Kennedy’s Latin American Program

Allen Dulles

Head of CIA in 1960

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Failure of CIA/Kennedy Administration in Cuba

Strategic Hamlet

Kennedy’s program in Vietnam to convince villages to go democratic

Ngo Dinh Diem

US Ally in South Vietnam

ARVN

Nickname/Acronym for Army of Republic in Vietnam

Viet Cong

What VC means

Viet Cong were fighters/rebels, North Vietnamese Army were the official regular army

Difference between VC and NVA

Appoints Pro Segregation Justices

Evidence that Kennedy is not 100% for CRM

RFK

Attorney General who pushed JFK’s CR Agenda

Bay of Pigs

JFK FP Failure

Assasination of Ngo Dinh Diem

Another JFK FP Failure

Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK FP Success

Berlin Speech

Another JFK FP Success

Excomm

Kennedy’s Advisors during Cuban Missile Crisis

Mongoose

CIA Program to Assassinate Fidel Castro

Texas

LBJ’s home state

Senate Majority Leader

LBJ’s Job before Kennedy Administration

Goldwater

Who LBJ defeated in 1964

Landslide Lyndon

LBJ’s nickname for election of 1965

FDR

LBJ’s Inspiration

Great Society

LBJ’s New Deal

Economic Opportunity

Program from War on Poverty

Medicaid

Another program from War on Poverty

Civil Rights Act 1964

Made segregation illegal in hotels and restaurants

Voting Rights Act 1965

Act that tried to guarantee voting rights

Became more radical/Moved right

What happened to CRM after 1965

Malcolm X

Black leader assassinated in 1965

Newton & Seale

Founders of Black Panther Party

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Trail for Communist Soldiers

"Guns and Butter" Dilemma

What LBJ’s program suffers from

Tet Offensive

1968 North Vietnamese attack

Unpopularity due to Vietnam War

Why LBJ chose not to run in 68

Nixon

Won Presidency in 1968

San Marco State Teachers College (Texas State)

LBJ’s College

Whittier College

Nixon’s College

Harvard

JFK’s College

McNamara

JFK’s military advisor

RFK

JFK’s closest advisor

Assassinated

What happened to Ngo Dinh Diem

FDR (Welfare State)

LBJ’s Hero

Medicare, Social Security

Example of LBJ social welfare program

Escalation

What LBJ did in Vietnam

Rolling Thunder

LBJ Program to Bomb North Vietnam

Tet Offensive

1968 North Vietnamese Surprise Attack

Tricky Dick

Nixon’s Nickname

Kissinger

Nixon’s Chief FP advisor

Peaceful Co

existence

Ping Pong Diplomacy

Example of Detente

He’s strong anti-communist

Why Nixon can do detente

Nixon's strategy of acting unpredictable/crazy so enemies fear he'd do anything (deter escalation)

Madman Theory

Desegregates Military

What Truman did for CRM

Dixiecrats

Southern Democrats of 48

Earl Warren

Eisenhower’s fateful pick for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson’s Book

Marshall Thurgood

First black on Supreme Court

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

"Separate but equal is inherently unequal”

The Fall of Saigon

Symbolic end of US involvement in Vietnam War

Pentagon Papers

NYTimes and Washington Post release these criticizing US Vietnam War effort

Kent State University shooting

4 US Students killed here in Ohio

Georgia

Jimmy Carter’s Home State

Gave it back to Panama

What did Jimmy Carter do with the Panama Canal?

Panama had sovereignty over it

Why Carter returned the Panama Canal?

Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel

What do Camp David Accords do?

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

1979 Russian Invasion

Boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics

Carter’s Response to Russian Invasion

Iranian Revolution

1979 Islamic Revolution

Boycott and Protest Olympics

Carter’s Response to #74

Iran Hostage Crisis

Evidence of Jimmy Carter’s Weakness

Actor

Reagan’s Pre Political Career

Democrat

Reagan’s early political party

Giving speeches across the country shifted him right

How Reagan had his conservative awakening

Strategic Defense Initiative

Star Wars is a nickname for which program?

To stop a communist takeover/Protect US Medical students

Why Reagan invaded Grenada

Victory after the Vietnam War

What did Grenada do for America?

Political Reform

What is Glasnost

Economic restructuring

What is Perestroika

Gorbachev

Reagan’s Russian Counterpart

Sandra Day O'Connor

First woman on Supreme Court

Reagan secretly selling weapons to Iran, used profits to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels, bypassing Congress

What was Iran

6 POINTS OF US IRAN HISTORY

1953

Ike

Eisenhower’s nickname

He trained troops stateside

Eisenhower’s role in WWI

Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (Led D

Day)

NATO Supreme Commander

Eisenhower’s role in Truman Administration

John Foster Dulles

Eisenhower's Secy of State

Allen Dulles

Eisenhower's Head of CIA

"I Like Ike"

Eisenhower's slogan

Nixon

Eisenhower's VP

Nixon was anti

communist, balanced the ticket politically

Bao Dai

Emperor of Vietnam

Vietnamese communist revolutionary and nationalist

Ho’s Background

Vo Nguyen Giap

Military leader of North Vietnam