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Youngest president, delivered a stirring inaugural address ("Ask not, what your country can do for you..."), and he also assembled a very young cabinet

attorney general. tried to recast the priorities of the FBI, but was resisted by J. Edgar Hoover

Took over DOD

French leader; was one who was suspicious of the U.S., and he rejected Britain's application into the Common Market.

Launched a peaceful campaign against discrimination in Birmingham

On November 22, 1963, while riding down a street in Dallas, Texas, JFK was shot and killed allegedly by this man

became the new president of the United States as only the fourth president to succeed an assassinated president

In 1964, LBJ was opposed by this Republican Arizona senator who attacked the federal income tax, the Social Security system, the Tennessee Valley Authority, civil rights legislation, the nuclear test-ban treaty, and the Great Society

Part of the Black Muslims group; inspired by the Nation of Islam and its founder, Elijah Muhammed killed in 1965 by an assassin.

led the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and urged an abandonment of peaceful demonstrations.

along with journalist, this Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, turned against the war and in January 1966 began to stage highly publicized and occasionally televised congressional hearings to air criticisms of it.

a little known Democratic Senator from Minnesota, he represented the Democratic party in the 1968 presidential election. He was a devout Catholic and a soft-spoken, sometimes poet. He used a group of antiwar college students as his campaign workers. He, with the help of his "Children's Crusade", got 42% of the democratic votes and 20 out of 24 convention delegates.

On June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was shot fatally, and the Democratic ticket went to this man

Republicans nominated him to go against Humphrey in the election

Third-party candidate; former governor of Alabama, a segregationist who wanted to bomb the Vietnamese to death

developed an array of military options that could match the gravity of whatever crises came to hand

foreign policy and was adopted by Soviet-influenced "Communist states" that they could peacefully coexist with the capitalist

Public skepticism about the truth of statements, especially official claims and pronouncements

was used by John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. The phrase developed into a label for his administration's domestic and foreign programs.

an army of idealist and mostly youthful volunteers to bring American skills to underdeveloped countries.

President Kennedy met with Soviet Premier Khrushchev for two days of meetings. The meetings covered a whole range of items, including Laos, disarmament and general issues of ideology. More than anything else, however, the main issue on the agenda was Berlin.

To encourage cooperation with western European nations, President John F. Kennedy requested that Congress improve his bargaining position by authorizing him with greater discretion in offering tariff reductions. Congress obliged with the Trade Expansion Act. Kennedy hoped to increase cooperation with European nations to coincide with the growth of the European Common Market. However, Kennedy's plans were consistently frustrated by the actions of French president Charles de Gaulle. He vetoed Britain's entry into the Common Market and compromised prospects for more active trading among member nations of NATO.

Communist movement led by Ho Chi Minh.

was dubbed the "Marshall Plan for Latin America," and it aimed to close the rich-poor gap in Latin American and thus stem communism

Cuba Invasion occurred, on April 17, 1961, it was a disaster, as Kennedy did not bring in the air support, and the revolt failed.

A great society office; unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson

Johnson's program and it reflected its New Deal inspirations; Public support for the program was aroused by Michael Harrington's The Other America, which revealed that over 20% of American suffered in poverty.

In August 1964 shots were allegedly fired at American navy ships by the North Vietnamese. LBJ quickly ordered an air raid on North Vietnamese bases, and pushed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution through Congress. This gave the president a blank check to uses for further force in Southeast Asia. Because of this, LBJ had total control, and did not need the approval of Congress to enter the war.

Act banned racial discrimination in most private facilities open to the public

lasted 13 nerve-racking days and put the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and the world at the brink of nuclear war. But in the end, Khrushchev blinked, backed off of a U.S. naval blockade, looked very weak and indecisive, and lost his power soon afterwards

bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purpo

attracted an estimated 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. Participants walked down Constitution and Independence avenues

no poll tax

No literacy tests

ame given to America's sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Operation Rolling Thunder was a demonstration of America's near total air supremacy during the Vietnam War. It was started in an effort to demoralise the North Vietnamese people and to undermine the capacity of the government in North Vietnam to govern. Operation Rolling Thunder failed on both accounts.

capture of the USS "Pueblo," a Navy intelligence ship, and its 83 crewmen by North Korean patrol boats off the coast of North Korea on Jan. 23, 1968

North Vietnam had almost taken over Saigon in a blistering attack

is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day