Unit 8 vocabulary

• By Christopher Muñoz
• Period 6

John F Kennedy

• The democratic nominee for president in 1960 and Massachusetts senator.he was catholic. He was handsome and charming.JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

Richard Nixon

• Republican nominee of the 1960 presidential election who initially lost to kennedy.He was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office.

lyndon B Johnson

• He was JFK's vice president at the time.He empathized with the poor and minorities. Johnson called his domestic reform for America the "Great Society".He was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

Nikita Khrushchev

• Soviet leader during bay of pigs. Nikita Khrushchev publicized Stalin's crimes, was a major player in the Cuban Missile Crisis and established a more open form of Communism in the USSR.

Peace Corp

• Issued by JFK,The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries.

Job Corp

• Issued by LBJ's War on Poverty Program, Job Corps is a program administered by the United States Department of Labor that offers free-of-charge education and vocational training to young men and women ages 16 to 24.

Bay of Pigs

• In march 1960, eisenhower gave the via permission to secretly train cuban exiles for an invasion on Cuba.it turned out to be disasterous when in April, 1961, 1,200 cuban exiles met 25,000 cuban troops backed by soviet tanks and were soundly defeated.

Cuban Missile Crisis

• In 1962 american spy planes discovered the sites of missiles in Cuba and president kennedy declared the sites too close to U.S mainland and ordered them removed. U.S added a naval blockade to prevent soviets from building more.

Berlin Wall

• In 1961, Berlin Germany was in great turmoil.The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989.

Warren Court

• The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States during the period when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.these rulings were some of the first steps in civil equality.

Miranda Rights

• The Miranda warning, which can also be referred to as the Miranda rights, is a right to silence warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custom before they are interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against them in criminal proceedings.

Great Society

• A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.

Medicare

• Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities.

Medicad

• Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps low-income individuals or families pay for the costs associated with long-term medical and custodial care, provided they qualify. Although largely funded by the federal government, Medicaid is run by the state where coverage may vary.Made through the great society.

NASA

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

Immigration Act 1965

• The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.

Title IX

• Title IX states that: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

Martin Luther King Jr

• Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

Thurgood

• Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.

Malcolm X

• Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist.He had a change of heart after he traveled to Mecca.he used to believe in seperatism.

James Farmer

• James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr."

Montgomery Bus Boycotts

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S.

Little Rock 9

• The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.

Brown vs. Board of Education

• The story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. The people who make up this story were ordinary people. They were teachers, secretaries, welders, ministers and students who simply wanted to be treated equally.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and public accommodations.

UC vs Bakke

• In Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978), the Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process, but held that affirmative action programs could be constitutional in some circumstances.

Feminine Mystique

• The Feminine Mystique is a 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.

United Farmer Workers

• United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a union for agricultural laborers, primarily in California. Founded by charismatic leader, Cesar Chavez, UFW reached the peak of its influence in the 1970s, then declined until his death in 1993.

Cesar Chavez

• Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association

American Indian Movement

• American Indian Movement, (AIM), militant American Indian civil rights organization, founded in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1968 by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, and George Mitchell.

Stonewall Inn Rites

• The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn.They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

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