idea was to go to a place, and use the native forces to fight the guerilla warfare; they would go, like the peace corps, but they would learn about military tactics and get allies from the native people

at the border of East and West Germany in Berlin, the two sides meet and have a standoff; this leads to the building of the wall

USSR begins to place intermediate range missiles in Cuba, only 90 miles from the US

groups of people would ride in buses across the country for their rights; JFK didn’t support legislation for civil rights, but Robert Kennedy helped them reach their destination

calms down the nuclear war threat which was growing with the missile crisis

the new idea that in order to fight communism we had to work for an end to division at home, and that social structures at home would fight communism abroad

LBJ’s plan to use New Deal programs as well as more advanced things to make America worthy of being a leader in the 21^st century

he continued a lot of FDR’s new deal policies, including using things like welfare and medicare, things which help America to be affluent not only monetarily, he said

group stated by LBJ as a part of the Great Society, with the attempt to help fix poverty in America

programs which tried to help people, specifically those facing poverty, to have maximum involvement in the community

policy that we needed to keep Communism contained anywhere, and not let it spread

the leader of the South, who are known as the Republic of Korea; American troops join up with them to push back and then attack North Korea

Communist leader in the North; asks Stalin’s permission to invade the South twice before he gets a yes and moves into South Korea

the US general in the Pacific, who plans the attack on Korea, which involves sending troops around, and some troops up the middle to meet up later

Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia; they come apart with the Geneva convention

War between France and Vietnam, mainly, which ends with the Geneva accords, which break up Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia 

ends on 7 May 1954; the French surrender to the Communists in this fight

name during the French war for the Vietnam Independence League; North Vietnamese 

president of the Communist North Vietnam, who wants to move South

president of the state/republic of South Vietnam, an ally of the US in the war

Eisenhower’s secretary of state, he was very republican and an anti-communist

Republican who is the next ambassador to Vietnam, goes over and finds that no one is worried about how they treat the Vietcong 

Diem and his brother are arrested and killed outside a church 

Vietnam becomes a question of honor for LBJ, and he does things out of fear of looking like a coward; he compared Vietnam to the Alamo

LBJ in 1965 said that the US wants unconditional discussion to end fighting, he talks about a desire for peace, but he increases the war effort

problem that he faced, because he had misled the people and never gone to congress for more of a declaration of war; he lies again talking about peace while continuing to send over troops

ideas about the superiority of blacks, taken up by the SNCC when they broke from MLK

SNCC organized this march, and it received national attention w/ King’s participation; led to further battle between SNCC and King, because they didn’t like his taking over

a part of LA where a major riot takes place at this time

group led by Elijah Muhammad and at one time Malcolm X

Leader of the Nation of Islam, very radical leader 

Nixon attempts to reach this group, and his plan is to help the middle class have a say, those people who are fed up with all of the radicalism; these are the people who have remained loyal to US values with all of the radicalism

radical feminist group, attempt to attack sexism, and attack American society which they saw as being inherently sexist

-idea of LBJ which focuses on aid to the poor, specifically poor blacks; actually turns on itself, and leads to contempt for American government

most of the country had this in America, w/ a focus on the American Popular Myths