Chapter 38 - The Stormy Sixties

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Was assassinated on April 4, 1968

Kennedy

________ encouraged establishment of SNCC, a voter education project to register Souths blacks to vote.

Robert Kennedy

Was shot fatally on June 5, 1968

African Congo

Got its independence from Belgium in 1960

Johnson

________ used the Tonkin Gulf Incident to attack Vietnam.

Israel

Defeated Egypt in Six-Day War and gained new territory in Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and West Bank of Jordan River, including Jerusalem

LBJ

________ had sent more than half a million troops to Asia by 1968.

Stokely Carmichael

Led student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and urged abandonment of peaceful demonstrations

1960s

Upheavals of ________ and anti- establishment movement can largely be attributed to youthful population growth, protest against racism and the Vietnam War, and the apparent permanence of prosperity (gave away to stagnation with the 1970s)

Manhattan Society

________ (founded in LA in 1951) pioneered gay rights.

Charles de Gualle

________ (leader of France) was suspicious of the U.S. and rejected Britains application into common Market.

JFK

Was shot and killed on November 22, 1963, allegedly by Lee Harvey Oswald who was shot by Jack Ruby

Goldwater

Goldwater attacked the federal income tax, Social Security system, Tennessee Valley Authority, Civil Rights legislation, nuclear test-ban treaty, and the Great Society

Rights Act

LBJs Voting ________ of 1965 attacked racial discrimination at polls.

Black Power

________ became rallying cry by blacks seeking more rights.

JFK's tax-cut bill

Chose to stimulate economy through price-cutting

sexual revolution

1960s brought forth a(n) ________, a civil rights revolution, emergence of "youth culture, "war in Vietnam, and the beginning of the feminist revolution.

Kennedy

________ was elected president in 1960.

Martin Luther King Jr

In early 1965, ________ resumed his voter- registration campaign in Selma, Alabama.

Johnson

________ won over Goldwater in presidential election.

Johnson

Created the Equal Employment Opportuinity Commission which aimed at eliminating discriminatory hiring

Johnson

________ created the Department of Housing and Urban Development.