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the sixth session of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) trade negotiations held in 1964-1967 in Geneva, Switzerland. Congressional passage of the US Trade Expansion Act in 1962 authorized the White House to conduct mutual tariff negotiations ultimately leading to this. It had four major goals: to slash tariffs by half with a minimum of exceptions, to break down farm trade restrictions, to strip away nontariff regulations, and to aid developing nations. Participation greatly increased over previous rounds. Sixty six nations, representing 80% of world trade attended the official opening on May 4, 1964 at the Palais des Nations.

The president Johnson's commission established to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22. 888 page report that concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination. Unofficially named this for Chief Justice Earl ---.

Series of domestic initiatives announced in 1964 by LBJ to "end poverty and racial injustice." They included the Voting Rights Act of 1965, est of the Dept of Housing and Urban Development, Head Start, job-training programs, Medicare and Medicaid expansion, and various community action programs

Republican Senator from Arizona who ran for president in 1964 but lost to LB Johnson

Great Society programs that guaranteed healthcare for specific groups, medicare for 65 and older, and medicaid for poor

A federal agency, founded in the 1960s as part of the War on Poverty conducted by President Lyndon Johnson. It distributed federal money to a variety of local programs designed to promote educational opportunities and job training among the poor and to provide legal services for the poor. It was abolished in the middle 1970s, and its programs have been curtailed or scattered among other federal agencies, particularly the Department of Health and Human Services.

a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. It began in 1965 and was later updated in 1981. It is one of the longest-running programs to address systemic poverty in the United States

the largest in-kind benefits program, administered by the Department of Agriculture, providing coupons to individuals and families who satisfy a means test. Food Stamps can be exchanged for food at most grocery stores

Extended educational aid to private and parochial schools while basing the aid given on students' economic conditions, rather than the schools themselves. It was meant to improve the education of poor people and was the first federal program to fund education.

abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924. and replaced quotas with a limit of 20,000 immigrants

Ho Chi Minh wanted to unite Vietnam under Northern rule and aided this group of communist rebels trying to overthrow Diem in the south. Official title of the Viet Cong. Created in 1960, they lead an uprising against Diem's repressive regime in the South.

Communist guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s-1975) and the United States (early 1960s-1973)

A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in direct response to a minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia.

The US Secretary of Defense during the battles in Vietnam. He was the architech for the Vietnam war and promptly resigned after the US lost badly

A network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia (neutral countries) into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.

It is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs. These are meant to be practical, participatory, and oriented toward action and were popularized during the U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam.

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 phrase expreseeing the idea that a country tht decides to produce more military goods has fewer resources to produce consumer goods and vice versa

a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. The project was organized by the COFO, a coalition of four established civil rights organizations: the NAACP, CORE, SCLC and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), with SNCC playing the lead role with college students

a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river. Best known for the 1965 Voting Rights Movement and its marches to Montgomery, three such civil rights marches began in the city.

sometimes called voting rights act it expanded the federal government's protection of voters and voter regristration it also increased federal authority to investigate voter irregularites and outlawed literacy tests. Established the Equal Embasy Opertunity Commition.

(JFK) 1961, a program in which the United States gave billions of dollers to help Latin American countries overcome poverty and other problems in order to counter Communism, money used to aid big business and the military

(JFK) , volunteers who help third world nations and prevent the spread of communism by getting rid of poverty, Africa, Asia, and Latin America

In 1960 Eisenhower had approved a plan proposed by Allen Dulles. The US would supply money and arms in Guatemala for a force of anti-Castro Cubans. The force was trained and ready. Kennedy expected that when the force invaded Cuba, the Cubans would seize the chance to overthrow Castro, so Kennedy gave his approval to invade. 1500 Cuban refugee fighters landed in this bay on the South Coast of Cuba on April 17. They were not greeted as expected.

Leader of the Soviet Union during the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He and President Kennedy signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, temporarily easing Cold War tensions.

A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world.

an international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. When the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the U.S. demands a week later.

Seized power from Nikita Khrushchev and became leader of the Soviet Communist party in 1964. Ordered forces in to Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia.

Santo Domingo - attacked by rebels; LBJ sent it marines to established gov backed by US

War between French and communist forces in Vietnam over who would control the country after WWII; French withdrew after loss at Dien Bien Phu.

1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used geurilla warfare to fight anti-comunist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable

(1954) This agreement ended the war between France and Vietnam. Vietnam was partitioned into the North and South along 17th parallel to provide for the two opposing governments. It also set up an election in 1956 which would decide if the government of the south or that of the north would become the head of Vietnam. The USA did not actively participate in or sign on to the accords.

real thing? no definintion anywhere. spelled wrong methinks