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The 35 president of the United States and one of four presidents in US history to be assassinated.
John F. Kennedy
A supposed shortage in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by the United States compared to the number the Soviet Union had.
Missile Gap
This act, signed into law in 1963, stated that women are to be paid equally with men.
Equal Pay Act
The method states use to draw up political districts based on changes in population.
Reapportionment
Due process was extended in this manner.
Supreme Court rulings
Police officers are required to inform those they have arrested of their rights because of this.
Miranda Rights
The buildup of conventional troops and weapons to allow a nation to fight a limited war without using nuclear weapons.
Flexible Response
Due to the growing increase in communist influences, president Kennedy offered increased support to this region of the world. Mostly in the form of financial aid.
Latin America
Program which trains young Americans and sends them to underdeveloped areas of the world for two years to aid the locals.
Peace Corps
The first person to orbit the Earth.
Yury Gagarin
The Cold War competition over dominance of space exploration capacity.
The Space Race
Individual who famously said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind".
Neil Armstrong
Event where American trained revolutionaries attempted unsuccessfully to retake Cuba from communist forces. Notably, the American government withdrew air support for the operation shortly before it began.
The Bay of Pigs
The large wall which the Soviet Union erected to keep separate communist East Berlin and free West Berlin. This border was enforced with lethal force.
The Berlin Wall
When the US discovered Soviet missiles on Cuba and demanded they be removed, the Soviet Union refused, leading to this.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
President Kennedy was assassinated in this city.
Dallas, Texas
This man assassinated president John F. Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald
This man shot and killed the assassin of president Kennedy on live television.
Jack Ruby
Vice president to JFK who became president after his assassination.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
General agreement.
Consensus
The name for LBJ's national plan to combat poverty in America.
The War on Poverty
President Lyndon B. Johnson's opponent in the election of 1964.
Barry Goldwater
LBJ's idea of a better America, which included a world with less poverty and racial discrimination.
The Great Society
Part of LBJ's legislative agenda, which provided millions of dollars to the education system in America.
Secondary Education Act of 1965
The informal name for the government program which authorized subsidies to improve housing, healthcare, policing, and infrastructure in cities.
Model Cities