Programs
Two healthcare programs that were a part of LBJ's Great Society.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
Irregular warfare tactics like ambushes, sabotage, and hit-and-run.
What is guerilla warfare?
1964 act that prohibited discrimination in all public places.
What was the Civil Rights Act (of 1964)?
Appointed to be VP when Spiro Agnew resigned and assumed the office of the President when Richard Nixon resigned.
Who was (Gerald) Ford?
When a senator talks until a bill is abandoned or modified.
What is a filibuster?
FDR's plans to get the US out of the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
Giving in to the demands of a potential enemy.
What is appeasment?
Limits the president's powers to commit troops overseas with Congressional knowledge/permission.
What is the War Powers Act (or Resolution)?
President who made the call to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who was (Harry) Truman?
Government policy during war that limits how much of something people can buy/use.
What is rationing?
JFK's legislative agenda.
What was the New Frontier?
Vietnamese village where Americans killed unarmed men, women, and children.
What is My Lai?
Provides unemployment insurance and retirement benefits, along with grands for the disabled and orphaned.
What was the Social Security Act?
President who launched the space race.
Who was (John F.) Kennedy (or JFK)?
Policy should be based on practical, rather than moral or ideological, considerations.
What is realpolitik?
LBJ's agenda that include the creation of Job Corps, VISTA, and community action programs.
What was the War on Poverty?
Group that made up the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in WWII.
Who were Nisei (or Japanese Americans)?
Criminalized obtaining or conveying information related to national defense with the intent to injure the US or benefit a foreign nation.
What was the Espionage Act?
Before his presidency he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during WWII.
Who was (Dwight D.) Eisenhower?
Journalist or writer who investigates and exposes wrongdoing, corruption, or social injustice.
Who is a muckraker?
Shifted policy from assimilation and land allotment to promotion of trial self-governance and cultural preservation.
What was the Indian New Deal?
US plan to overthrow Castro and establish a non-communist government in Cuba.
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Broke up tribal landholdings into individual parcels to promote Native American assimilation.
What was the Dawes Act?
President accused of not doing enough to stop the Depression and had shantytowns named after him.
Who was (Herbert) Hoover?
Extreme, belligerent nationalism characterized by fervent patriotism, belief in national superiority, and aggressive foreign policy, advocating military force or threats to protect perceived national interests
What is jingoism?