Affluent society. Civil-rights movement. New Frontier. Triumphant liberalism. Vietnam War. Mobilization of minorities. New feminism. Watergate.
Brown decision (1954), massive resistance
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, New Frontier
Lee Harvey Oswald, Warren Commission
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Great Society
Medicare (1965), Medicaid (1966)
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), Community Action
Housing Act (1961), Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965), Immigration Act (1965)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), freedom rides
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Freedom Summer (1964), Selma march (1965)
Affirmative action
Commission on Civil Disorders
Black power, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, Malcolm X
Special Forces
Alliance for Progress
Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crisis
Viet Cong, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, pacification and relocation
Guns and butter
Tet offensive
New Left, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Free Speech Movement (1964)
Counterculture, hippies, social dropouts
Melting pot
Termination, Declaration of Indian Purpose (1961), Indian Civil Rights Act (1968)
Stonewall riots (1969)
Equal Pay Act (1963), National Organization for Women (NOW), Equal Rights Amendment (1972), Roe v. Wade decision (1973)
Henry Kissinger
Vietnamization, Pentagon Papers, Christmas bombing
Nixon Doctrine
First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)
Family Assistance Plan
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Stagflation
Watergate, impeachment
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