Vocab pt 1
Set to implement a legislative agenda known as
New Frontier
Anti Poverty program and civil rights bill
War Poverty
What candidates all received electoral votes in the 1960 Election?
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Harry F. Byrd
Who ran against each other in the 1964 presidential election?
Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater
Who was the 37th President
President Nixon
If nations needed help resisting Communist movements, the President would push for a build up of troops
Flexible Response
A set of programs by President Johnson to fight poverty and inequality in the 1960s was created by congress known as
Great Society
What election was the first televised debate?
1960 Election
What state was LBJ from?
Texas
Who was the 25th President
President McKinley
United States had won the ________________________Showing its technological superiority over the soviet union.
Financed health care for those living below the poverty line
Medicaid
How was the Cuban Missile crisis resolved
USA takes their missiles out of Turkey then Soviets will take theirs out of Cuba
Where was LBJ sworn in after JFK was assassinated?
Air Force One hours later
Who was the 30th President
Stood as a visual symbol of the Cold War divisions.
Berlin Wall
Health insurance funded through social security
Medicare
What state was JFK assassinated?
Texas
What was the Bay of Pigs?
A failed invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces
Who was the 22nd President
President Cleveland
In 1964 a national commission concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin
Warren Commission
Efforts to improve education also extended through this project
Head Start
Who was accused of killing JFK?
Lee Harvey Oswald
What was the result of Miranda v. Arizona (1966)?
Required police to inform suspects of their rights
What president was a known actor before being president?
President Reagan