foreign policy
Cold War & Tensions
Campaign Strategy
An activist court
domestic policy
100
The buildup of conventional troops and weapons instead of nuclear weapons
What is flexible response
100
Created to prevent western ideas in West Berlin from spreading to the rest of Germany
What is the Berlin Wall
100
The term for the allure to Kennedy's youth and optimism in the 1960 election
What is the Kennedy Mystique
100
The man who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1953
Who is Earl Warren
100
Lyndon B. Johnson's vision of a fair and perfect community
What is the Great Society
200
An organization, created by Kennedy, that performs humanitarian services to foregn nations
What is the Peace Corps
200
Event that caused fear in the US as a result of Soviet missiles in Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
200
New media platform that made a candidate's image important
What is television
200
The act of giving more power to urban areas where more citizens resided
What is reapportionment
200
Project that sought to help disadvantaged preschoolers
What is Head Start
300
The person who the US put in charge of the Vietnam government in the South
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem
300
Event that was caused by US fear of communism and the sending of CIA troops to murder Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs
300
The religion Kennedy was a member of and due to it he felt he had to ease public fears by saying it would not play a role in his actions
What is Catholicism
300
The case that caused the Warren Court to rule that it is unconstitutional to compose official prayers in public schools
What is the Engel v. Vitale case
300
The term for Johnson's belief in the need to eliminate economic inequality in the US
What is the war on poverty
400
Place that held the negotiations to end the conflict on the issue of Vietnam
Where is Geneva, Switzerland
400
Kennedy's concern caused by the Soviet Union possessing more nuclear weapons than the US
What is the missile gap
400
Kennedy's agenda that sought to aid education, provide health insurance to the elderly, and help migrant workers
What is the New Frontier
400
Case that caused a court ruling that stated that birth control is protected because it is someone's right to privacy
What is the case of Griswold v. Connecticut
400
Program that gave financial health care to citizens on welfare
What is Medicaid
500
Resolution that gave the more power to the president as a result of the Vietnam War
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
500
The rivalry the US had with the USSR concerning aerospace
What is the space race
500
The republican who ran against Kennedy in the 1960 election
Who is Richard Nixon
500
The rights that belong to someone who committed a crime which state that they have the right to remain silent
What are Miranda Rights
500
Commission that sought to advance women's rights in the US
What is the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
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