Chapter 28—The Liberal Consensus: Flaming Out, 1960-1968

The campaign program advocated by JFK in the 1960 election. He promised to revitalize the stagnant economy and enact reform legislation in education, health care, and civil rights.

-Thirty-fifth U.S. president and a leading supporter of the civil rights movement. He feared that more explicit support on his part would alienate conservative southern Democrats in Congress. The violence of the Birmingham campaign, however, convinced Kennedy to endorse the civil rights movement publicly, even at the risk of losing the next election. He had plans to push a stronger civil rights bill through Congress but was assassinated in 1963.

he was elected to be US President after Johnson decided to not to run for US president again. He promised peace with honor in Vietnam which means withdrawing American Soldiers from South Vietnam

He engineered a revolution in Cuba in 1959. He denounced the imperialists and took valuable American property for a land-distribution program. When the U.S. cut off U.S. imports of Cuban sugar, Castro took more U.S. land and resulting from that his dictatorship became similar to Stalin's in Russia. (Communism in the Western Hemisphere)

Was a Cuban President, dictator, and military leader closely aligned with and supported by the United States. He served as the leader of Cuba from 1933–1944, and 1952–1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution.^[3]

An inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on the southern coast of Cuba./ U.S. involved in an invasion of Cuba, Castro fends them off without much of a fight. However Castro realizes US are no longer allies.

Federal program established to send volunteers to help developing nations

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An organization founded in 1942 to campaign against segregation in the North using sit-ins and other nonviolent forms of protest. CORE later worked closely with the SNCC, the SCLC, and the NAACP to organize nonviolent rallies and protests such as the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington.

was a strategic movement organized by the (SCLC) to bring attention to the unequal treatment of black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama. The campaign ran during the spring of 1963, culminating in widely publicized confrontations between black youth and white civic authorities, that eventually pressured the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws. Organizers, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Director of the NAACP in Mississippi and a lawyer who defended accused Blacks, he was murdered in his driveway by a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

Kennedy's plan to deal with foreign powers by not always resorting to nuclear weapons but using specialist like the Green Beret

A physical barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic including/a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

The Soviet Union was secretly building nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba, which could have been used for a sneak-attack on the U.S. The U.S. blockaded Cuba until the U.S.S.R. agreed to dismantle the missile silos.