Campaign promised by Kennedy New Frontier Person arrested for killing kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald Who followed Kennedy after assasination Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Johnson's reform program was called what Great Society Welfare program by Johnson Medicare Thing made by Johnson in his "fight on poverty" Office of Economic Opportunity Act to help infrastructure by Lyndon Johnson Housing act of 1961 Bill by johnson for schools (initially introduced by Kennedy) Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Act by Johnson opening up immigration Immigration act of 1965 Where was black sit-in at segregated place Woolworth Group that made "freedom rides" where they desegregated busses Congress of Racial Equality Governer blocked desegregation where University of Alabama Bill by Kennedy to desegregate public places (kennedy shot before it passes) Civil rights act of 1964 What did civil rights focus on after end of segregation voting Mississippi organization to get voting MFDP Act given to desegregate voting Voting Rights act of 1965 Where did major race riot occur to fight urban poverty (Los Angeles) Watts More radical idea that black is different, created schism black power When was Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 Act to stop atmospheric nuclear tests Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 When Ngo Diem tries to remove Ho Chi Minh supporters what do his followers make Viet Cong National Liberation Front In 1964 where are American destroyers attacked by North Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin Strategies of US in vietnam (failed) attrition pacification Offense by communists with a lot of force, military victory for US but hurt support a lot Tet Offensive Favorite candidate that is assassinated in 1968 Robert Kennedy Presidential nominee when Kennedy dies for democrats Hubert Humphrey Winner of 1968 election Richard Nixon Who blocked Alabama University entrance and nearly beat Richard Nixon for republican nomination George Wallace Attempt by Kennedy to overthrow Castro, gave up on air support because local uprising failed Bay of Pigs Program to fight urban poverty Community Action Program Movement of northern college students to get south blacks to vote; 3 killed Freedom Summer Leader of black power movement Malcolm X Thing to give support to civil rights act, I have a dream March on washington Medicare for poor (medicare was for old) medicaid