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Liberal anti-war senator from Minnesota who rallied a lrage youth movement behind his presidental campaign inChallenging sitting president Johnson in the New Hampshire primary, he captured 41% of the vote and helped ensure that Johnson would quit the race
  • New Frontier (1961-1963)
  • Robert S. McNamara
  • James Meredith
  • Eugene McCarthy
Ex-Marine and communist and communist sympathizer who assassianted JFK in Dallas, Texas, on November 22,He was murdered two days later as he was being transferred from one jail to another
  • Berlin Wall
  • Apollo (1961-1975)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • George C. Wallace
program of manned space flights run by American's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); the project's highest achievement was the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon of July 20, 1969
  • Apollo (1961-1975)
  • affirmative action
  • George C. Wallace
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
President Kennedy's nickname for his domestic policy agenda. Buoyed by youthful optimism, the program included proposals for the Peace Corps and efforts to improve education and health care
  • Great Society (1964-1968)
  • Freedom Riders (1961)
  • Eugene McCarthy
  • New Frontier (1961-1963)
fortified and guarded barrier between East and West Berlin erected on orders from Soviet Permier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 to stop the flow of people to the West; until its destruction in 1989, the wall was a vivid symbol of the divide between the communist and capitalist worlds
  • George C. Wallace
  • March on Washington (1963)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Berlin Wall
doctrine of militancy and separatism that rose in prominence after 1965, its activists rejected Martin Luther King's pacifism and desire for integration. Rather, they promoted pride in African heritage and an often militant position in defense of their rights
  • Stonewall Rebellion (1969)
  • Berlin Wall
  • George C. Wallace
  • Black Power
a campus-based political organization founded in 1961 by Tom Hayden that became an iconic representation of the New Left. Originally geared toward the intellectual promise of "participatory democracy," SDS emerged at the forefront of the civil rights, antipoverty, and anitwar movements during the 1960s
  • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
  • Black Panther party
  • European Economic Community (EEC)
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964)
federal law that banned racial discrimination in public facilities and strengthened the federal government's power to fight segregation in schools. Title VII of the act prohibited employers from discriminating based on race in their hiring practices, and empowered the Equal Employment Oppurtunity Commission (EEOC) to regulate fair employment
  • Six-Day War (1967)
  • Great Society (1964-1968)
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
program designed to redress historic racial and gender imbalances in jobs and education, the term grew from an executive order issued by JFK in 1961 mandating that projects paid for with federal funds could not discriminate based on race in their hiring practices. In the 1960s, President Nixon's Philadelphia Plan changed the meaning of addirmative action to require attention to certain groups, rather protect indivudals against discrimination
  • George C. Wallace
  • affirmative action
  • Freedom Summer (1964)
  • Apollo (1961-1975)
free trade zone in Western Europe created by Treaty of Rome in 1957, often referred to as the "Common Market," this collection of countries originally included France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemourg. The body eventually expanded to become the European Uion, which by 2005 included 27 member states
  • European Economic Community (EEC)
  • Black Panther party
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964)
  • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
massive civil rights demonstration in August 1963 in support of Kennedy-backed legislation to secure legal proections for American blacks. One of the most visually impressive manifestations of the Civil Rights Movement, it was the occasion of Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech
  • Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
  • Cuban missile crisis (1962)
  • March on Washington (1963)
  • Freedom Summer (1964)
CIA plot in 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro by training Cuban exiles to invade and supporting them with American air power; the mission failed and became a public relations disaster early in JFK's presidency
  • Cuban missile crisis (1962)
  • Stonewall Rebellion (1969)
  • March on Washington (1963)
  • Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
organized mixed-race groups who rode interstate buses deep into the South to draw attention to and protest racial segregation, beginning inThis effort by northern young people to challenge racism proved a political and public relations success for the Civil Rights Movement
  • Freedom Riders (1961)
  • James Meredith
  • Robert S. McNamara
  • Robert F. Kennedy
first president of South Vietnam, where he took power following the Geneva Accords inHe was propped up by the United States unti lhe was overthrown and assassinated by a coup in 1963
  • James Meredith
  • Robert S. McNamara
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Malcom X
standoff between JFK and Khrushchev in October 1962 over Soviet plans to install nuclear weapons in Cuba. Although the crisis was ultimately settled in American's favor and represented a foreign policy triumph for Kennedy, it brough the world's superowers perilously close to brink of nuclear confrontation
  • Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
  • Cuban missile crisis (1962)
  • Freedom Summer (1964)
  • March on Washington (1963)
effort by SNCC and other groups to register the South's historically disenfranchised black population. The project typified a common strategy of the civil rights movement, which sought to counter racial discrimination by empowering people at grassroots levels to exercise their civic rights through voting
  • Voter Education Project (1962-1968)
  • Cuban missile crisis (1962)
  • March on Washington (1963)
  • Berlin Wall
Southern populist and and segregationist, as governor of Alabama, he famously defended his state's policies of racial segregation. He ran for president several times as a Democrat, but achieved his greatest influence when he ran as a third-party canidate in 1968, winning five states
  • March on Washington (1963)
  • Berlin Wall
  • George C. Wallace
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
military conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the war ended with an Israeli victory and territorial expansion into the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, and the West Banks. This war was a humiliation for several Arab states, and the territorial disputes it created formed the basis for continued conflict in the region
  • Six-Day War (1967)
  • New Frontier (1961-1963)
  • Eugene McCarthy
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
Businessman turned secretary of defense from 1961-1968, he was the author of the "flexible response" doctrine, which created a variety of military options and avoided a stark choice between nuclear warfare and none at all. As defense secretary, he was the chief architect of the Vietnam War.
  • Freedom Riders (1961)
  • James Meredith
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Robert S. McNamara
a voter registration drive in Mississippi spearheaded by the collaboration of civil rights groups, the campaign drew the activism of thousands of black and white civil rights workers, many of whom were students from the north, and was marred by the abduction and murder of three such workers at the hands of white racists
  • George C. Wallace
  • Freedom Summer (1964)
  • Cuban missile crisis (1962)
  • March on Washington (1963)
organization of armed black militants formed in Oakland, California, in 1966 to protect black rights. They represented a growing dissatisfaction with the non-violent wing of the civil rights movement, and signaled a new direction to that movement after the legislative victories of 1964-1965
  • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
  • European Economic Community (EEC)
  • Black Panther party
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964)
in 1962 became the first black American to attend the Univesity of Mississippi after beign blocked several times by segregationist politicians. An icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Meredith receded from public view following his brace steps toward educational integration
  • Freedom Riders (1961)
  • Robert S. McNamara
  • James Meredith
  • Robert F. Kennedy
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