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President __ ordered American ships to prevent Soviet ships from reaching Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
The most extreme members of the youth counterculture were called __.
Hippies
First American to orbit earth
John Glenn
In August of 1969, __ took place on a farm in New York.
Woodstock
The first African American to be on a President's cabinet
Robert Weaver
The __ encouraged people to build low-cost housing.
Housing Act
The __ allowed President Johnson to send combat troops to Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
During the 1960 election campaign, the Nixon-Kennedy __ were on television.
debates
The __ is a cooperative effort among 16 nations to study and perform experiments in outer space.
International Space Station (ISS)
Put the first American satellite into orbit
The US Army
Organized a union for farm workers in California
Cesar Chavez
The __ Amendment says that no person can be elected President for more than 2 terms.
Twenty-Second
The code name for the US program to launch two astronauts in a spacecraft capable of orbiting for a long time
Project Gemini
The __ was what President Johnson called his plan for the country.
Great Society
Kennedy and Khrushchev met in June of 1961, which prompted the building of __.
The Berlin Wall
__ assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy started the __, which sent American volunteers overseas to help underdeveloped nations.
Peace Corps
__ was elected President in November of 1968.
Richard Nixon
The __ was passed by many states but did not make it into the Constitution.
Equal Rights Amendment
America's population grew after World War II because of the __.
baby boom
Kennedy challenged __ to put an American on the moon by 1970.
NASA
The __ planned to draw attention to segregation in the South.
Freedom Riders
The __ showed the President Kennedy could stand up to the Soviet Union.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban rebels supported by the US tried to invade Cuba at the __.
Bay of Pigs
A leader in the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King, Jr.