John F. Kennedy and the “New Frontier”
This president started the "New Frontier" program.
Who is John F Kennedy?
Law giving $1 billion to schools.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
Idea that communism would spread.
What is the Domino Theory?
Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed this right.
What is a lawyer?
1960s movement for women's equality.
What is the Women's Liberation Movement?
Kennedy signed this 1963 law to help women get fair wages.
What is Equal Pay Act?
Johnson's plan funded 140,000 of these.
What are scholarships?
1964 resolution expanding the war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Protesters burned these.
What are draft cards?
Failed amendment for equal rights.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
Kennedy's commission studied this group.
Who are Women?
Program for preschoolers from poor families.
What is the Project Head start?
1968 Vietcong surprise attack.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Trust in government declined due to this.
What is the credibility gap?
Woman who opposed the ERA.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
"Ask not what your country can do for you..."
What is "what you can do for your country"?
Schools had to do this to get federal aid.
What is desegregate?
Nixon's plan to leave Vietnamization.
What is Vietnamization?
War that drained Great Society funds.
What is the Vietnam War?
What is abortion?
Kennedy promised to protect this.
What is liberty?
Law that changed immigration rules.
What is the immigration Act of 1965?
1973 agreement ending U.S. involvement.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
War that drained Great Society funds.
What is the Vietnam War?
Movement that inspired feminists.
What is the Civil RIghts Movements?