John F. Kennedy
The Bay of Pigs was originally planned under which President's Administration?
Dwight Eisenhower
Before becoming president , Lyndon Johnson was a congressman and a senator from this state.
Texas
After losing space race, JFK makes a promise to do what by the end of the decade?
Land a man of the moon
This Great Society act approved nearly 1 billion dollars for antipoverty measures, small-business loans, and job training! Head start, VISTA and job corps were all part of this!
Economic Opportunity Act
In November, 1963, Kennedy arrived at this city to help raise funds for the Democratic Party.
Dallas, Texas
The Soviets did not like the fact that East Berliners were fleeing their city for the democratic west so they built this.
Berlin Wall
In the 1964 election, Johnson had promised not to send troops to this location.
Vietnam
The name for Kennedy's domestic programs
The New Frontier
This program provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical care to the elderly.
Medicare
This is where Lyndon Johnson took the oath of office after the Kennedy assassination.
Air Force One
$20 billion to support internal improvements...Supported education and school... Built hospitals and promote health care. Helped distribute land
Alliance for Progress
Abolished the national-origins quotas and providing for the admission each year of 170,000 immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 from the Western Hemisphere
Immigration Act of 1965
Castro and Khrushchev devised a daring plan: installation of Soviet missiles and nuclear bombers in Cuba- led to this crisis.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was an education program for underprivileged preschoolers.
Project Head Start
Lee Harvey Oswald
Pushed for the use of conventional weaponry and military to combat Communism
Flexible Response
True or False: Johnson was chosen by Kennedy as a running mate because of his southern connections and congressional connections.
True
How many days did the Cuban Missile Crisis last?
13 Days
Name of the administration created to oversee the building of 240,000 units of low-rent housing and help low-moderate income families pay for better housing.
HUD or Housing and Urban Development
This commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing President Kennedy.
Warren Commission
The Bay of Pigs
He was Johnson's republican opponent in the 1964 election.
Barry Goldwater
This called for an end to all nuclear tests in the ocean, the atmosphere and outer space
Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
This legislation outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and jobs. increased federal power to prosecute civil rights abuses.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This man shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald on national television.
Jack Ruby