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World War III Blues
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Communists
New Frontier
100
The closest the world has ever come to a global nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
Kennedy's Attorney General
Who is Robert F. Kennedy?
100
Communist leader of Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
Term for a preemptive nuclear attack that would knock out an enemy before they could retaliate
What is a "first strike?"
200
Kennedy's Vice President
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
Communist leader of the Soviet Union during the Kennedy Administration
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
200
Overall term for Kennedy's attempted domestic policies
What is the New Frontier?
300
Policy of completely destroying an enemy with nuclear weapons if attacked by nuclear weapons
What is mutual assured destruction (MAD)?
300
Kennedy's Secretary of State
Who is Dean Rusk?
300
Nationalist communist group set up in Laos
What is the Pathet Lao?
300
Organization set up to help spread world peace through positive foreign service
What is the Peace Corps?
400
Type of weapon which made it possible to launch a nuclear bomb from anywhere in the world
What is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)?
400
Kennedy's Secretary of Defense
Who is Robert McNamara?
400
North Vietnamese rebel group
What is the Viet Mihn?
400
Constitutional change which abolished all poll taxes
What is the 24th Amendment?
500
Kennedy's military policy that included a variety of weapons for a variety of situations
What is "flexible response?"
500
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who was attacked by conservatives for being too "activist" and the head of the Kennedy assassination investigation
Who is Earl Warren?
500
First human in space
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
500
Friendly alliance between the United States and Latin America
What is the Alliance for Progress?