People
Who became the dictator of Cuba in 1959 and caused JFK to worry due to Cubas close proximity to the United States?
BONUS: What ideological view did this man have?
Fidel Castro
Communism
War that caused a huge credibility gap between the American people and government due to lies and controversial coverups like the My Lai Massacre.
BONUS: What was Nixon's plan for getting the U.S. out of this war?
Vietnam War
vietnamization
Term often used to refer to the generation that went against the norm of the 1960's and 1970's.
BONUS: Group of young Americans that fit in this culture that were based off of their love for nature and lack of materialistic needs.
hippies
Name at least two programs in LBJ's Great Society system of programs.
BONUS: Nickname given to what the U.S. could become due to LBJ's welfare based programs.
Medicaid/Medicare/Head-Start/Job Corps
welfare state
What were the two factors that helped JFK win his presidential race?
BONUS: Who was his opponent that was coined looking like a "sinister chipmunk?"
televised debates and Civil Rights
Nixon
Which president is associated with the Watergate Scandal?
BONUS: What term is best defined as a gap of trust between the U.S. government and its people?
Nixon
credibility gap
Name of neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY where a company dumped toxic waste into the town's water system.
BONUS: Name of island where nuclear reactors leaked radiation during the 1960 and 1970's.
3 mile island
Name of book written about the dangers of pesticides.
BONUS: What did the Immigration Act of 1965 by LBJ remove?
Silent Spring
quotas and restrictions on immigration
LBJ created program that was meant to create funds to take care of the elderly upon retirement.
BONUS: LBJ created program that was meant to create funds for families in need.
Medicare
Medicaid
Which of the following events happened under the JFK administration?
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Watergate Scandal
Space Race
Peace Corps
BONUS: What was the name of the covert military force that JFK created for missions like the Bay of Pigs?
Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis/Space Race/Peace Corps
green berets
Organization created by a group of Middle Eastern nations that ran the oil flow for most nations across the globe.
BONUS: What did they place on the U.S. that forced Nixon to look at creating our own resources for energy?
OPEC
embargo
OPEC is compromised of nations mainly located in what part of the world.
BONUS: Nixon was the first president in over 20 years to visit what country.
Middle East
China
What was the name of JFK's foreign policy?
BONUS: How was this different from previous policies like Eisenhower's brinkmanship?
flexible response
It was based off of being flexible in how we responded to attacks or threats of attack, and not being rigid in responding to violence with violence.
LBJ legislation that forces states to clean up rivers.
BONUS: LBJ legislation that forces companies to limit gas emmisions in the air.
Clean Water Act
Clean Air Act
Republican
Job Corps
Immigration Act of 1965
New Frontier
BONUS: What did JFK call space?
Job Corps/Immigration Act of 1965
New Frontier
BONUS: Name of national holiday focused on celebrating nature.
EPA
Earth Day
BONUS: Why did Fidel Castro get along so well with the Soviet Union?
Cuba
They both believed in communism.
BONUS: Which president gave a speech regarding this event?
Berlin Wall
JFK
Amendment passed to lower the voting age.
BONUS: Name of a series of surprise attacks by the Viet Cong and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
26th
Tet Offensive
Name of the tense period where the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro had missiles pointed at the U.S.
BONUS: What was the failed name of the attempt to coup or overthrow Castro?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Who wrote the book Silent Spring?
BONUS: Promise JFK made to Americans regarding spcae.
Rachel Carson
We would be the first nation to land someone on the moon.
JFK was assassinated in what U.S. state?
BONUS: Where did the U.S. place missiles at in response to us finding missile sites in Cuba?
Texas
Turkey/Greece
Term used to refer to someone who was pro-war.
BONUS: Term used to refer to someone who was anti-war.
hawk
dove
Nixon's foreign policy that was based off of easing tensions between countries.
BONUS: What sport was used to help do this with Chian?
Detente
table tennis/ping pong
Name of the treaty that Nixon was able to get the Soviets to sign that was based off of a mutual agreement to limit the creation of missiles.
BONUS: The U.S. theory that said if one nation falls to communism they all fall.
SALT I/II
Domino Theory