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John F. Kennedy
Kennedy and the Cold War
Kennedy's Domestic Agenda
Johnson's Presidency
Miscellaneous
100

What brought attention to disabled persons. 

(NEED BOTH ANSWERS)

What is President's Council on Mental Retardation and the Special Olympics.

100
Person who John F. Kennedy succeeded as president and whose massive retaliation strategy had emphasized the construction of nuclear weapons.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
Name given to President Kennedy's Vision for America:his proposals to improve the economy, education, healthcare, and civil rights.
What is the New Frontier?
100

What did Johnson propose as a reform program which became the most ambitious since the New Deal

What is the Great Society?

100
Full name for VISTA, which sent American volunteers into poverty-stricken American communities, including working in inner-city schools, Indian reservations, and rural health clinics.
What is Volunteers in Service to America?
200
City in which J. F. Kennedy was assassinated.
What is Dallas?
200
Leader who established a communist regime in Cuba (overthrew the regime of Batista) and was leading Cuba at time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
This act, passed in 1963, resulted in employment practices becoming fairer by requiring equal wages for "equal work" in industries engaged in commerce or producing goods for commerce.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
200

What gave aid to one of America's regions

(NEED THE ENTIRE NAME)

What is the Appalachian Regional Development act

200

Popular name of Supreme Court that often made rulings supporting civil liberties.

What is the Warren Court?

300

What gave Kennedy a report on the status of women and allowed him to sign the Equal Pay act

What is the Federal Commission.

300
Soviet leader who challenged Kennedy in the Cuba Missile Crisis and as a result declined in national politics.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
300

Strategy used by President Kennedy to improve the economy, based on the "new economics" of theorist John Maynard Keynes.

What is deficit spending?

300

This 1964 Act was the first part of Johnson's War on Poverty and created the Job Corps to train young men and women in the skills they needed to acquire better jobs and move out of poverty. It also established VISTA.

What is the Economic Opportunity Act?

300

Under this act Fourteen leaders of the Communist Party in the state of California were tried and convicted

What is Smith Act

400

In using federal power to solve problems at home and defend abroad what did Kennedy promise

What is a "New Frontier

400
What is the name of the poorly managed and poorly equipped plan for a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles to attack Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is Bay of Pigs Invasion?
400

in 1960 who did Kennedy defeat to become president

Who is Richard Nixon

400

What replaced the previous system based on national origins by establishing the same quota for all countries

What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?

400

What case was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that the First Amendment protected radical and reactionary speech, unless it posed a "clear and present danger.”

What is Yates v. United states (1957)

500
Person who assassinated John F. Kennedy. (Need all three names)
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
500
As a result of this treaty, nearly forty countries ended aboveground nuclear tests.
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
500
Issue around which Kennedy's domestic agenda primarily focused, an issue depicted in the 1962 expose by Michael Harrington.
What is poverty?
500

What did Johnson escalate America's involvement in

What is the Vietnam War

500

What cases did the Warren Court make decisions on?

(YOU NEED ALL 4)

What is 

Yates v United States, Baker v.  Carr, Engel v. Wainwright, and Miranda v. Arizona

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