P.E.G.S.+RB+28(Kristen,+Emily,+Heather,+Justin)

__RB 28 Political:__ 1. In the election of 1960, Kennedy defeated Nixon by a little over 100,000 popular votes. -Emily 2. Kennedy attacked the Eisenhower administration for recent recession and for permitting the Soviets to take lead in the arms race. -Emily 3. In the election of 1964, Johnson wins the election with 61 percent of the popular vote- Justin 4. Johnson won the election of 1964 and the Democrats now controlled both of the houses in Congress.-Heather 5. Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, but wasn't accepted by a required 38 states.-Kristen __Economic:__ 1. The economy was stimulated by increased spending for defense and space exploration. -Emily 2.-Justin needs to do rest i did 3. Woodstock Music Festival in upper New York state gathered thousands of hippies. The movement's excesses & the economic uncertainties of the times led to its demise in the 1970's.-Heather 4. Office of Economic Opportunity was created and given a billion-dollar budget.-Kristen 5. War on Poverty significantly reduced the number of families living in poverty before the Vietnam War.-Kristen __Geography:__ 1. East Germans built a wall around West Berlin to stop East Germans from fleeing to West Germany. -Emily 2. Cuban Missile crisis a very close and dangerous threat from the soviet union -Justin 3. Presidents Kennedy's assassination happens in Dallas -Justin 4. Some 2.7 million Americans served in the Vietnam War and 58,000 died in an increasingly costly and hopeless effort to prevent South Vietnam from falling to Communism. 5. Martin Luther King led nonviolent protests in Montgomery, Alabama.-Kristen __Social:__ 1. Michael Harrington's best-selling book on poverty, //The Other America//, helped focus national attention on the 40 million Americans still living in poverty. -Emily 2. During the 1960's the change in American's attitude toward sexual expression a study done by Alfred Kinsey found that premarital sex, marital infidelity, and homosexuality much more common then suspected. -Justin 3. In 1996, Betty Friedan founded the National Organization for women (NOW) to secure equal treatment of women. 4. Student protests demanded an end to university restrictions on student political activities.-Kristen 5. Women's movement accomplished fundamental changes in employment and hiring practices.-Kristen