Eisenhower Domestic Policies
Federal-Aid Highway Act 1956 (Highway Act)
Secretary of State Dulles advocated for this policy of pushing Communist powers to the brink of war.
Brinkmanship
Kennedy called for aid to education, federal support of healthcare, urban renewal, and this.
civil rights
Kennedy created this program that recruited young American volunteers to give technical aid to developing countries.
Peace Corps
The name of all of the programs LBJ's administration pushed through Congress.
The Great Society
This was the war that defined Johnson's presidency while also undermining the success of the Great Society.
Vietnam War
The label for Eisenhower of being a fiscal conservative who prioritized balancing the budget but accepted some of the ideas of the New Deal was called.
Modern Republicanism
Eisenhower refused to send U.S. troops to aid the French in this Southeast Asian country.
Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
The name of the programs for Kennedy's domestic policy.
The New Frontier
In response to Soviet successes in space, Congress created this administration to direct the U.S. efforts to build missiles and explore outer space.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
The Great Society was created to wage a war on this issue.
Poverty
This event in 1964 provided Johnson with congressional authorization for escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Eisenhower's farewell address warned against the growing power of this.
Growing military industrial complex
This event in 1957 challenged the United States' technological leadership.
Sputnik Launch
Though it struggled to pass Congress, Kennedy aimed to provide aid to these two areas.
education and healthcare
This agreement, which Kennedy pursued, prohibited nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
This 1965 act increased federal aid to schools, particularly for low-income districts.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations in Southeast Asia would also fall.
Domino Theory
Eisenhower's economic policies are rated by some historians as the most successful of any modern president because of this.
Steady economic growth
What two geographic regions were labeled as "third world" in which the US intervened during Eisenhower's presidency?
(Southeast) Asia and the Middle East
Kennedy confronted steel executives over the increase in these.
Price increases
The Kennedy administration initiated this failed invasion of Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
In response to Ralph Nader's book "Unsafe at Any Speed" (1965), Congress passed regulations for this industry.
automobile (cars)
This surprise attack by the Vietcong in 1968 was a turning point in the Vietnam War, significantly affecting American public opinion.
Tet Offensive
This was the first civil rights legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress since Reconstruction, signed into law by Eisenhower.
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960
Eisenhower sought to ease Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union, leading to a summit meeting in this Swiss city.
Geneva
In 1962, Kennedy sent 400 federal marshals and 3,000 troops to this state to ensure the enrollment of James Meredith.
Mississippi
This structure was built by the East Germans with Soviet backing to stop East Germans from fleeing to West Germany.
Berlin Wall
This act was passed as part of the Great Society to address the needs of the Civil Rights Movement to tackle the issue of voting disenfranchisement. (Outlawed litarcy tests, poll tax, grandfather clause)
Voting Rights Act 1965
Johnson's use of air attacks on North Vietnam was called this.
Operation Rolling Thunder