Rep: Nixon (Eisenhowers VP)

Dem: Kennedy

• JFK was better looking and more calm
• Nixon looked tired, sweaty, grumpy

• Boost the economy by cutting taxes
• Combat poverty and inequaility
• Build a top-notch space program (Go to the moon)

• Program from NASA w/ goal of conductin manned moon landing missions
• July 1969 was first manned mission to reach the surface of the moon

• Overthrew U.S. backed dictator (Batista) and nationalized private property
• Split property w/ poor
• Turned to Soviet Union for aid and assistance

• Few trained soldiers, Cuban Brigade air strike didn't work, shortage of ammo, landing place was changed into a public park
• Castro quickly killed and captured them, declared communism, signed trade agreement w/ Warsaw Pact Nations

• Soviets build the wall b/c they are unhappy
• Battle of capitalism v. communism
• JFK refused to remove Allied troops and UN in Berlin

• JFK asked to put an end to nuclear tests in ocean, atmosphere, and space
• China and France didn't sign it

• The "Marshall Plan" for Latin America
• Attempt to keep Castro form spreading revolutionary (Communist) ideology.

• Called for volunteer work in third worls countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
• Educate, medicate, and farm

•  Nov. 22- Traveled to Dallas for pre-campaigning and shot by Oswald
• Buried at Arlington

• Ex-marine, excellent markman
• Assasinated JFK

• Investigated JFk's death
• Concluded Oswald acted alone but later found out a 2nd gunman might be involved

• Born in ATL, father was pastor, went to Morehouse, PHD from Boston
• Famous as C.R leader during  Montgomery bus boycott
• Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
• Killed April 1968 in Memphis by James E. Ray

• 1st Pres. was MLK
• Purpose was to partake in nonviolent protests in the South
• Made problems nationally known

• Younger and more energetic than SCLC
• Purpose was to give young activists a role in the movement to make change faster; seperated movement from the church

• Sit-in where balcks were not allowed
• Owners must decide between serving the customers or creating a scene that disrupts business

• A test to see if southern states were obeying the no segregation on interstate buses
• Departed from D.C. to New Orleans
• Blacks and whites on bus harrased along the way

• Police commisioner of Birmingham who allowed police to use hoses and attack dogs
• Many protestors arrested
• MLK arrested for not obtaining a permit for assembly

• March to support bill from JFK to prohibit segregation in public places, end discrimination, and segragtion in schools
• JFK didn't want march but C.R leaders would bot call it off
• "I have a Dream" speech from MLK

• radical C.R. leader
• Little was his last name
• joined Nation of Islam

• MLK wanted to be equal to whites and live peacefull w/ them (peaceful means only)
• Malcolm X wanted to be split form whites and be left alone (violent means if needed)

• Black organization established to promote Black power and self defence through violent means
• Founders: Newton and Seale

• Headstart
• Vista: taught ppl. job skills
• Medicare: Hospital insurance and care for 65 & up
• Medicaid: Insurance for the poor
• HUP: fed funds for low-income housing

• Headed by Betty Frieden, attacked false image of women
• Worked for more balance marrigae, equal pay

• Equal Rights Amendment (1972)
• Made discrimination based on sex illegal

• N. Vietnam torpedo boats attacked a U.S. ship (USS Maddox) in Tonkin Gulf (international waters)
• Resolution gave unlimited money to go win war

• Finally fell in April 1975
• N. Vietnam defeated S. Vietnam
• Renamed Ho Chi ming City