Bryce Hachmeister

Gabby Ingram

Aidan Michel

Luke Siddons

1960’s

Topics of the Decade

JFK’s Presidency

Vietnam War

The Civil Rights

Movement

The Great Society

Popular Culture

Timeline

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration - agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research Great Society - a set of domestic programs in the United States that aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice Robert Kennedy – “Bobby” - was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil-rights activist Domino Theory - existed from the 1950s to the 1980s and speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect Cuban Missile Crisis - 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other Berlin Wall - barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic; that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. Barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. U-2 incident - United States one-man U-2 spy plane was reportedly shot down at high altitude over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission Containment - a United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism. Freedom Riders - civil rights activists who rode buses to the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”