Concepts
How did Television impact the election of 1960?
People saw JFK as healthy and fit and Nixon as pale and weak -- he'd just had a surgery and declined the makeup
the leader of the USSR during Kennedy’s presidency
Nikita Khrushchev
LBJ's Domestic Program
The Great Society
the US help plan an invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961 because they wished to:
- contain communism
- overthrow Castro
- get access to assets they'd previously held
Kennedy's domestic program
The New Frontier
healthcare and assistance for young people who are disadvantaged:
Medicare
a sudden overthrow of the government
Coup d'etat
youth program which aimed to promote the US and democracy while assisting in healthcare, education, in the "Third World"
The Peace Corps
limited junkyards and billboards advertising on the Interstates
Highway Beautification Act
In a speech, Churchill referred to this figurative division between the East and the West
Iron Curtain
How did JFK attempt to address discrimination against women in employment?
Equal Pay Act
SCOTUS case during the Johnson administration: guaranteed that the accused knew their rights.
Miranda v. Arizona
US, Canada, European alliance against the Eastern bloc
Bonus if you can state what the acronym means (100)
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
An attempt to reestablish good relations in Latin America, generally through finances. LA countries were skeptical:
Alliance for Progress
suspended literacy tests, poll taxes
Voting Rights Act of 1965