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Failed plot to remove Fidel Castro from power by sending twelve hundred anticommunist exiles to invade Cuba; the invasion was unsuccessful and the band of exiles was forced to surrender.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • March on Washington
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Berlin Wall
An example of the transformation from youthful idealism that gave way to violence and cynicism during the 1960s; this organization initially used peaceful demonstrations to promote its antipoverty and anti war objectives, but eventually devolved into an underground terrorist group.
  • New Frontier
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)
A response to the violence and bigotry that plagued the voter registration drives in Mississippi and Alabama, this landmark legislation, pushed through Congress by LBJ, outlawed literacy tests and sent federal voter registrars into several southern states.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Voting Rights Act of 1964
  • Voting Rights Act of 1970
  • Voting Rights Act of 1966
Wall dividing East and West Berlin; constructed by the Soviets in 1961 in order to stop the heavy population drain that flowed from East Germany into West Germany; symbolized the postwar division of Europe into two hostile camps.
  • March On Washington
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Berlin Wall
  • Moscow Wall
Conflict between Israel and Soviet-backed Egypt; Israel emerged victorious, occupying new territories that included the Gaza Strip, the West Bank of the Jordan River, and Jerusalem; intensified the existing problems of the volatile Middle East and the intractable standoff between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
  • Yom Kippur War
  • Six-Day War
  • War Powers Act
  • Persian Gulf War
Black air force veteran who faced violent opposition when he attempted to register for classes at the University of Mississippi; JFK sent in 400 federal marshals and 3,000 troops to facilitate his enrollment and put a stop to the rioting and violence.
  • March on Washington
  • James Meredith
  • Freedom Riders
  • Robert S. McNamara
Soft-spoken anti-war candidate for the Democratic party nomination in the presidential election of 1968; LBJ, under attack for his policies in Vietnam, announced that he would not seek the nomination; another contender, Robert Kennedy, was assassinated at the California primary; eventually lost the nomination to Hubert Humphrey.
  • George Wallace
  • Eugene McCarthy
  • Great Society
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
Integrated delegation that was denied its seat at the national Democratic convention.
  • Mississippi
  • Black Panther Party
  • Black Power
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
When intelligence revealed that the Soviets were installing nuclear weapons in Cuba, the United States ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island and demanded immediate removal of the missiles; JFK announced that any attack from Cuba would be met with nuclear retaliation against the Soviet Union; as Soviet ships approached the US naval patrol line, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war; ultimately, Khrushchev agreed to pull the missiles out of Cuba; in return, the US ended the quarantine and agreed not to invade Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Bay Of Pigs Invasion
  • Berlin Wall
  • March On Washington
Peaceful demonstration led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and attended by 200,000 black and white supporters, in August 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial; King gave his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech, calling for civil rights legislation and an end to racial discrimination.
  • Black Power
  • March on Washington
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
Doctrine promoted by Stokely Carmichael; a separatist call for black unity and nationalism that emphasized African American distinctiveness through hairstyles, clothing, individual names, and by demanding black studies programs in schools; also focused on economic demands, as urban blacks faced high numbers of unemployment.
  • March On Washington
  • Great Society
  • Black Panther Party
  • Black Power
Multibillion-dollar project to land an American on the moon; promoted by JFK, this goal was finally achieved in 1969.
  • Dionysus
  • Apollo
  • Hera
  • Zeus
Project supported by Robert Kennedy, the SNCC, and other civil rights groups which aimed at registering the South's historically disfranchised blacks.
  • Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • March On Washington
  • Voter Education Project
Led the Defense Department under JFK, leaving a position as president of Ford Motor Company; pushed a strategy of "flexible response", developing an array of military options that could accommodate specific crises; eventually left the cabinet as a result of his increasing discomfort with the war in Vietnam.
  • Robert S. McNamara
  • Hubert Humphrey
  • James Meredith
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
Leader of the corrupt, right-wing American-backed government in South Vietnam; when his regime was threatened with a coup, JFK sent in American forces to "foster political stability" in 1961; two years later, the US, unhappy with his refusal to institute reforms, encouraged a coup, leading to political disintegration and heightening America's involvement in the conflict in Vietnam, which had already cost 15,000 American lives at that point.
  • James Meredith
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Robert S. McNamara
  • Freedom Riders
Charismatic black power agitator; inspired by Elijah Muhammed and his militant Nation of Islam, he changed his given name and began preaching black separatism; eventually moving away from Muhammed, he moved toward mainstream Islam; assassinated by Nation of Islam gunmen in 1965.
  • Berlin Wall
  • Malcolm X
  • Apollo
  • Freedom Summer
JFK's program for change in which he issued a challenge to the American people, calling upon them to make sacrifices to achieve their potential greatness; included medical assistance for the elderly, increased education spending, space exploration, public service initiatives such as the peace corps, a commitment to civil rights and fiscal policies to revitalize the economy.
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • New Frontier
  • Freedom Summer
  • Berlin Wall
Alleged JFK assassin; shot the president as he rode in an open car in Dallas; gunned down by self-appointed avenger, Jack Ruby.
  • Robert S. McNamara
  • Voter Education Project
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • March on Washington
Militant black power organization; openly brandished weapons on the streets of Oakland, California; their actions contrasted with the nonviolent tactics of Dr. King.
  • Great Society
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • Black Power
  • Black Panther Party
Massive voter registration drive held in Mississippi in 1964 and staffed by both black and white civil rights workers; struck by brutal violence when three workers were found murdered; white juries refused to convict the alleged perpetrators; in the end, only a handful of black Mississippians succeeded in registering to vote.
  • New Frontier
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Freedom Summer
  • Berlin Wall
Civil Rights activists who traveled across the South on a crusade to end segregation in facilities serving interstate bus passengers; their efforts were frequently met with protests and violence; when southern officials failed to come to their aid, JFK dispatched federal marshals to protect the riders.
  • James Meredith
  • Black Power
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Freedom Riders
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