REAL DIKA UNIT 8 FLASHCARDS

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New Frontier

Nickname for Kennedy Administration

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The Best and the Brightest

Nickname for people in Kennedy Administration

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Profiles in Courage

Kennedy’s Book

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Nixon

Who Kennedy defeated in 1960 Election

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SLSC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

Group of Southern Preachers in Civil Rights Movement

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SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

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

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Peace Corps

Kennedy program to spread democracy among young people

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Alliance for Progress

Kennedy’s Latin American Program

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Allen Dulles

Head of CIA in 1960

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

Failure of CIA/Kennedy Administration in Cuba

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Strategic Hamlet

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

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Ngo Dinh Diem

US Ally in South Vietnam

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ARVN

Nickname/Acronym for Army of Republic in Vietnam

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Viet Cong

What VC means

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

Difference between VC and NVA

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Appoints Pro Segregation Justices

Evidence that Kennedy is not 100% for CRM

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RFK

Attorney General who pushed JFK’s CR Agenda

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Bay of Pigs

JFK FP Failure

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Assasination of Ngo Dinh Diem

Another JFK FP Failure

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Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK FP Success

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Berlin Speech

Another JFK FP Success

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Excomm

Kennedy’s Advisors during Cuban Missile Crisis

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Mongoose

CIA Program to Assassinate Fidel Castro

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Texas

LBJ’s home state

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Senate Majority Leader

LBJ’s Job before Kennedy Administration

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Goldwater

Who LBJ defeated in 1964

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Landslide Lyndon

LBJ’s nickname for election of 1965

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FDR

LBJ’s Inspiration

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Great Society

LBJ’s New Deal

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Economic Opportunity

Program from War on Poverty

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Medicaid

Another program from War on Poverty

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Civil Rights Act 1964

Made segregation illegal in hotels and restaurants

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Voting Rights Act 1965

Act that tried to guarantee voting rights

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Became more radical/Moved right

What happened to CRM after 1965

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Malcolm X

Black leader assassinated in 1965

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Newton & Seale

Founders of Black Panther Party

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Ho Chi Minh Trail

Trail for Communist Soldiers

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"Guns and Butter" Dilemma

What LBJ’s program suffers from

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Tet Offensive

1968 North Vietnamese attack

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Unpopularity due to Vietnam War

Why LBJ chose not to run in 68

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Nixon

Won Presidency in 1968

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San Marco State Teachers College (Texas State)

LBJ’s College

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Whittier College

Nixon’s College

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Harvard

JFK’s College

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McNamara

JFK’s military advisor

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RFK

JFK’s closest advisor

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Assassinated

What happened to Ngo Dinh Diem

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FDR (Welfare State)

LBJ’s Hero

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Medicare, Social Security

Example of LBJ social welfare program

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Escalation

What LBJ did in Vietnam

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Rolling Thunder

LBJ Program to Bomb North Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

1968 North Vietnamese Surprise Attack

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Tricky Dick

Nixon’s Nickname

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Kissinger

Nixon’s Chief FP advisor

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Peaceful Co

existence

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Ping Pong Diplomacy

Example of Detente

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He’s strong anti-communist

Why Nixon can do detente

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

Madman Theory

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Desegregates Military

What Truman did for CRM

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Dixiecrats

Southern Democrats of 48

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Earl Warren

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

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Silent Spring

Rachel Carson’s Book

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Marshall Thurgood

First black on Supreme Court

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

"Separate but equal is inherently unequal”

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The Fall of Saigon

Symbolic end of US involvement in Vietnam War

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Pentagon Papers

NYTimes and Washington Post release these criticizing US Vietnam War effort

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Kent State University shooting

4 US Students killed here in Ohio

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Georgia

Jimmy Carter’s Home State

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Gave it back to Panama

What did Jimmy Carter do with the Panama Canal?

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Panama had sovereignty over it

Why Carter returned the Panama Canal?

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Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel

What do Camp David Accords do?

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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

1979 Russian Invasion

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Boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics

Carter’s Response to Russian Invasion

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Iranian Revolution

1979 Islamic Revolution

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Boycott and Protest Olympics

Carter’s Response to #74

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Iran Hostage Crisis

Evidence of Jimmy Carter’s Weakness

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Actor

Reagan’s Pre Political Career

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Democrat

Reagan’s early political party

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Giving speeches across the country shifted him right

How Reagan had his conservative awakening

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Strategic Defense Initiative

Star Wars is a nickname for which program?

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To stop a communist takeover/Protect US Medical students

Why Reagan invaded Grenada

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Victory after the Vietnam War

What did Grenada do for America?

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Political Reform

What is Glasnost

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Economic restructuring

What is Perestroika

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Gorbachev

Reagan’s Russian Counterpart

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Sandra Day O'Connor

First woman on Supreme Court

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

What was Iran

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6 POINTS OF US IRAN HISTORY

1953

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Ike

Eisenhower’s nickname

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He trained troops stateside

Eisenhower’s role in WWI

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Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (Led D

Day)

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NATO Supreme Commander

Eisenhower’s role in Truman Administration

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John Foster Dulles

Eisenhower's Secy of State

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Allen Dulles

Eisenhower's Head of CIA

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"I Like Ike"

Eisenhower's slogan

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Nixon

Eisenhower's VP

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Nixon was anti

communist, balanced the ticket politically

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Bao Dai

Emperor of Vietnam

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Vietnamese communist revolutionary and nationalist

Ho’s Background

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Vo Nguyen Giap

Military leader of North Vietnam