Early Life
Presidency & Major Policies
Legacy
Space Race
100

This state is where Kennedy spent much of his early life and later served politically

Massachusetts

100

JFK’s Cold War focus included this divided city

Berlin

100

He was killed in this Texas city

Dallas

100

The space agency that Kennedy supported heavily is best known by this name

NASA

200

JFK was born in this city

Brookline

200

This 1962 standoff brought the world close to nuclear war

Cuban Missile Crisis

200

JFK’s vice president became president after Kennedy’s death

Lyndon B. Johnson

200

This idea was famously expressed in JFK’s 1962 speech about space.

“We choose to go to the Moon.”

300

JFK was born this year

1917

300

A major focus of the early 1960s was advancing rights under this broad issue

Civil Rights

300

The nightclub owner who killed Oswald is known by this name

Jack Ruby

300

The Soviet satellite that kick-started U.S. space urgency

Sputnik

400

This was JFK’s mother, connected to Boston political leadership

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

400

JFK began his term as president this year

1961

400

The man accused in connection with JFK’s assassination had this name

Lee Harvey Oswald

400

The U.S. accomplished JFK’s long-term goal when humans landed on the Moon in this later year

1969

500

JFK’s father was a prominent banker and politician with this name

Joseph P. Kennedy

500

This famous German phrase—ending with “I am a Berliner”—appeared in a 1963 speech

Ich bin ein Berliner

500

JFK was assassinated on this date

November 22, 1963

500

The first human to travel to space (and return).

Yuri Gagarin