| Term | Definition |
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| 24th Amendment | prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. |
| Civil Rights Act 1964 | a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment. |
| Bay of Pigs | an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on the southern coast of Cuba. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The crisis ranks with the Berlin Blockade as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to a nuclear war. |
| Berlin Wall | a physical barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic including |
| John F Kennedy | the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963 |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides, a leading role in the 1963 March on Washington, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
| Martin Luther King Jr | an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. |
| National Voting Rights | outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States. |
| Black Power | It is used in the movement among black people throughout the world, primarily those in the United States |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after serving as the Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. |
| War on Poverty | the name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964 |
| Great Society | set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Barry Morris Goldwater | a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. |
| Medicare | a social insurance program administered by the United States government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria. |
| Medicaid | health program for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the states and federal government, and is managed by the states |
| Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 | abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924. |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | addressed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as a joint resolution of the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in direct response to a reported minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
| César Estrada Chávez | Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers |
| National Organization for Women | founded on June 30, 1966 in Washington, D.C., by 28 women and men attending the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women, the successor to the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women |
| "Hawks" | typically representing aggression |
| "Doves" | representing pacifism |
| American Indian Movement | the group has led protests advocating Indigenous American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the United States |
| Asian American Political Alliance | brought together Chinese-,Filipino-,and Japanese-American students. Formed at the University of California. |
| Chicano | a citizen of, or a person living in, the U.S. who is of Mexican descent-Male |
| Chicana | a citizen of, or a person living in, the U.S. who is of Mexican descent-Female |
| Miranda v Arizona | ruled that police officers must advise suspects of certain legal rights before arrest and questioning. In Miranda the Court described a four-part warning that police officers must give to a suspect who is arrested or otherwise detained. The warning is designed to inform suspects of their rights not to incriminate themselves and to have the assistance of counsel. |
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