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Counterculture
Kids were known as hippies and did drugs and were striving to be the opposite of the standard american -
nuclear power
this was the year of encourgament to develope of nuclear power plants to generate electricty -
DDt
Lyndon Johnson addresses envirourmental concerns in his plans for the great society the effects of DDT threatened to destroy many species -
Drug scene
most kids were on LSD and marajuana and phychedelic drugs -
Sex revolution
were different from tradition by living in communal groups , demanded more freedom in personal choices -
SNCC
nearly 200 students showed up for the first meeting a chance to play a greater roll in in civil rights movement -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
a failed plan to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro -
Freedom rides
both african and white americans boarded south onn interstate buses -
NASA
U.S made our first attempt to send a person into space -
ole miss
an AA vet fought a racial battle an won on behalf of descrimination against race -
Cuban Missile Crisis
photograpghs were taken from an american spy plane because we were fearful of the soviets and their weapons -
Diem's Downfall
a buddhist monk bund himslf to death on strets of saigon peaceful people didnt like it -
march on washinton
more than 200000 peopl rom all over came to call for jobs an freedom -
J.F.K is assassinated
was killed in Texas trying to mobolize support for re election campaign -
Warren Commission
headed by Cheif Justice Earl Warren and the investigation of assassination of president John F.Kennedy -
Gulf of Tonkin
NV torpedo boatshad attacked US they would change cous of war and law was passed by a vo of 16 to 0 -
election of 1964
Johnson won by landslide over Barry Goldwater and recieved 61 percent of popular vote -
beatles
the year 1964 marked a revolution in rock music that some called the brotish invasion -
democratic convention
some mmbers of the SNCC helped organize , newely registered missippi voters sent delgates to the democratic convntion -
Freedom summer
AA and white volunteers all came and the KKK arrived -
selma March
lead by MLK jr and his wife tv pictues of th attack shockd many viewers -
Aid to education
provided 1.3 billion in aid to states the funds went to public and private schools -
Medicare and medicaid
provided low cost health insurance for poor americans of any age who couldn't afford their own private health insurance -
United Farm Workers
activist Dolores Huerta organized mexian feild hands and they door to door farm to farm -
Black Panthers
formed and they hatted whites and they bhad theoir own communitee and wanted combat as brutality in ghettos -
My Lai
american soldiers committed atrocities they were killin children men women -
MLK assassination
He was standing on his balcony and was killed he was often attempted to be killed but they failed AA rioted after his death setting fires in rage of fustration -
Tax Cut
Johnson believed it would help improve the economy , gross national product rose by 7.1 percent in 1964 -
man on moon
neil armstrong becomes first person to walk on moon -
Woodstock Festival
the diverse kids of the counterculture all came together at woodstock music and art fair
