| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Urban renewal | a program during JFK's administration that spent $5 billion to rebuild rundown areas of the nations cities |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | October 1962 - most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War - Soviets are deploying nuclear missles in Cuba - JFK warns Soviets and blockades Cuba - Soviet ships turn around and disaster is avoided |
| Berlin Wall | a wall built to separate East & West Berlin so that those from the East cannot escape to the West - a symbol of communist failure |
| Warren Commission | a group set up to investigate the assassination of JFK - concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | proposed by JFK but passed after his death, made it illegal to discriminate due to race, sex or religion - also gove the govt the power to use the courts for desegregation |
| Black Power Movement | a movement to black seperationism - sought to build a black political party - became a revolutionary group |
| NOW | National Organization of Women - sought to pass the Equal Rights Ammendment |
| Equal Rights Ammendment | aimed to strengthen the position of working women and remove limits on women's property rights during and after marriage |
| Roe v Wade | Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion |
| Pentagon Papers | information on how the government had decieved the American people on the level of US involvement in Vietnam |
| My Lai Massacre | 1968 American slaughter of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai |
| SALT Treaty | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty - limited the number, type and deployment of Intercontinental Ballistic Missles |
| Watergate | the building complex where a burglary and it's coverup by the Nixon administration eventually leads to Nixons resignation |
| inflation | prices rise because the value of money is dropping |
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