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American History IIMs. Barker

CHAPTER 28 & CHAPTER 29

Chapter 28

Election of 1960 – Nixon vs. Kennedy

Kennedy (J.F.K)

Party:Background:

Image:

Media Perception:

Campaign Strategy:

Nixon

Party:Background:

Image:

Media Perception:

Campaign Strategy:

Election Results:

Kennedy’s Domestic Policy (New Frontier):

Peace Corps:

Economic Program:

Space Program:

Civil Rights:

Justice Warren:

School Prayer:

Rights of the Accused:

Compare Kennedy’s New Frontier with Roosevelt’s New Deal in terms of goals and organizations.

Kennedy’s Foreign Policy (briefly explain)

Bay of Pigs4/61

Background

Military Mistakes:

Kennedy’s Mistakes:

Cuban Missile Crisis:10/62

Soviet Concession:

American Concession (secret in 10/62)

Berlin Wall

Kennedy’s Position:

Assassination of Kennedy (Date: / / )

Lone Gunmen Theory:

Conspiracy Theory:

Kennedy Legacy:

Johnson and the Great Society

Kennedy’s Acts passed under Johnson

Tax Cut(s):

Civil Rights:

Poverty Relief:

Going Beyond Kennedy

Economic Opportunity Act - (War on Poverty)

Job Corps

VISTA

Head Start

Community Action Program

Election of 1964:

GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAMS
PROGRAM / DATE / PURPOSE / TARGET GROUP
Elementary & Secondary School Act
Medicaid

Civil Rights Act

24th Amendment

Voting Rights Act

Dept. of Housing & Urban Development
National Traffic & Motor Vehicle safety Act
Environment Policy Act
of 1969
Chapter 28
Terms to Know

Robert Kennedy

Test Ban Treaty

Warren Commission

Flexible Response

Earl Warren

Gideon’s Trumpet (Gideon v. Wainright)

Miranda v. Arizona/ Escobeda v. Illinois

Silent Spring- Rachel Carson

Unsafe at Any Speed – Ralph Nader

Other America – Michael Harrington

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Chapter 29 – Civil Rights

I. Gaining Equality Under the Law

Brown v. Bd of Ed

Justice Earl Warren

Thurgood Marshall

Civil Rights Acts of 1957 & 1960

Little Rock Nine

II. Direct Action

1954 Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King, Jr. SCLC

Rosa Parks

Sit – Ins

CORE

SNCC

Fisk University – Nashville

Freedom Riders

Freedom Summer

Birmingham 1963

Civil Rights Act 1964

Bloody Sunday – Selma, Alabama

III. Getting Aggressive-

Black Power – Stokely Carmichael

Nation of Islam

Elijah Mohammed

Malcolm X

Black Panther Party

Huey Newton

Bobby Seale