JFK & Crisis
The means by which the Kennedy family obtained their wealth.
What is booze running during Prohibition?
The number of USSR test pilots who died between Sputnik and April 1961?
What is three?
This marked the final evolution of the Progressive-era embrace of education as the answer to all challenges.
What is the mindset in Washington that money, education, and research could solve any problem?
The root cause of the Vietnam War.
What is the Soviet ability to strike the United States with atomic weapons?
The name of the South Pacific ship commanded by JFK, which was rammed by a Japanese destroyer while on a reconnaissance mission.
What is PT-109?
The name of the first human to orbit the Earth and his country.
What is Yuri Gagarin and the USSR?
The reason JFK favored tax cuts.
The 'dominoes' in Southeat Asia that toppled after Vietnam fell to communism.
What are Cambodia and Laos?
The name of the book written by JFK about his escape after the sinking of PT-109.
What is Profiles in Courage?
How JFK and the US responded to the USSR's early lead in the space race.
What is the expenditure of $5 billion per year on space until 1969?
The amount of money spent by the HEW in 1966 and 1967.
What is $154 million in 1966 and $313 million in 1967?
This agency fought communism with shovels and spades instead of guns.
What is the Peace Corps?
The name of the place where a failed U.S. and Cuban exiles attempted to kill Castro and overthrow the Cuban government.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The names of the astronauts to land on the moon on July 20, 1969, and the name of their mission.
Who are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin, and Apollo 11?
The way in which JFK caused the government to grow while still cutting taxes.
What is he did not enact corresponding spending cuts?
The conditions under which the communist cause advances.
What is misery?
The edifice that was built in Berlin, Germany, during JFK's presidency, which symbolized the Cold War.
What is the Belin Wall?
The event that marked the American space victory in the Cold War.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing?
The reason why personal savings rose from 2% to 9%, and GNP rose by 40% after 1962.
The president who did the most to ensure the quagmire of Vietnam.
Who is John Kennedy?