This case has been made famous by nearly every tv cop when they tell a perp his rights.
What is Miranda vs. Arizona?
100
The reason East Germany built the Wall
What is to keep East Germans out of West Berlin?
Also accepted: To keep people escaping to the West
100
JFK defeated this future president and incumbant vice president in the 1960 election.
Who was Richard M. Nixon
100
What two elected positions did LBJ serve before being chosen as Vice President?
What is Congressman and Senator (where he was majority leader).
100
Johnson's Great Society was to eliminate poverty and this long lasting social problem.
What is racial injustice?
200
The Warren Court was considered to be this political leaning as it became more and more activist in nature by upholding civil rights, the rights of the accused and voting rights.
What is liberal or left leaning?
200
Who attempted to ivade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs?
What were exiled Cubans?
200
Kennedy was a member of this Chrisitian religion. Many voters were concerned that he would be able to be influenced by the denomination's ruler.
What is Catholic?
200
He was the political figure that LBJ most respected and modeled many of his initiatives after in his own presidency.
Who was FDR?
200
This program provided low cost or free medicine to people utilizing welfare by granting money to the states.
What is Medicaid?
300
What "one person, one vote" relates to.
What is Reapportionment of Congresional districts must be equal?
300
This was why the US tried to deny involvement in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
What is to avoid war with the Soviet Union?
300
The Warren Commission concluded that this man shot JFK. Years later there was still question if he acted alone.
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
300
The number of terms to which LBJ was elected President.
What is one?
300
Johnson felt that this was the "key" to opening the door to the Great Society and had several initiatives to buy books and supplies.
What is education?
400
The verdict of Mapp v. Ohio
What is government can not use illegally seized evidence?
400
This is how fast the initail wall was built.
What is overnight?
400
This program of JFK was aimed at helping impoverished nations by sending our youth to teach, provide medical assistance and share engineering knowledge.
What is the Peace Corps?
400
LBJ declared a war on this in 1964.
What is poverty?
400
This new department in LBJ's government helped provide low-cost housing in the cities. It also had the first African-American cabinent member.
What is Deptartment of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
500
The result of Gideon v. Wainright
What is the accused has the right to an attorney, even if they can not afford one?
500
2 things to which the US agreed to do in order for the Soviet Union to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is promise not to invade Cuba and removal of Jupiter Missiles from Turkey.
500
Kennedy's Alliance for Progress offered economic and technical assistance for countries in this region of the world. It also helped keep out Communism
What is Latin America?
500
Johnson signed this act into law from the one room schoolhouse where he went to school near Stonewall, Texas.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
500
The cost of the programs of the Great Society caused this grow faster than anytime after World War II.
What is the size and reach of the Federal Government.
Also accepted "What was the federal deficit"