Unit 6 Vocabulary Review

Form of protest where participants occupy a place and refuse to move.

• Sit-In
• Filibuster
• Freedom Riders

• Flexible Response
• Detente

Tactic where Senators give long speeches to hold up legislative procedures.

• Filibuster
• Sit-In
• Détente

• Flexible Response
• De Jure Segregation

Organization of militant African Americans founded in 1966.

• Black Panthers
• Counterculture

• Freedom Riders

• Hawk

• Peace Corps

U.S. defense strategy in which a wide range of diplomatic, political, economic, and military options are used to deter an enemy attack.

• Flexible Response
• Peace Corps

• Filibuster
• War Powers Act

• Freedom Riders

Going into debt to pay for things at the moment.

• Deficit Spending
• Great Society

• Filibuster
• New Frontier

• Space Race

JFK domestic policy aimed at improving poverty, fighting crime, racial discrimination, and a space race.

• New Frontier
• Great Society

• Peace Corps

• Domino Theory

• Flexible Response

President Johnson’s goals in the areas of health care, the environment, and poverty.

• Great Society
• New Frontier

• Filibuster
• Deficit Spending

• Flexible Response

Health care program providing low-cost health care for the poor.

• Medicaid
• Great Society

• New Frontier

• Domino Theory

• Flexible Response

Health care program providing low-cost health care for the elderly.

• Medicare
• Great Society

• New Frontier

• 24th Amendment

• Flexible Response

Idea that if a nations falls to communism, its closet neighbors will also fall under communist control.

• Domino Theory
• Peace Corps

• De Facto Segregation

• De Jure Segregation

• Counterculture