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John F. Kennedy
Kennedy and the Cold War
Kennedy's Domestic Agenda
Johnson's Presidency
Miscellaneous
100
Republican candidate that John F. Kennedy defeated in the 1960 election.
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
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
President Johnson's vision for America is popularly referred to as this. It was his social welfare program, including program to improve education, support the arts, support public radio and television, and his call for an end to poverty and racial injustice.
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
Legislation passed in 1964 and signed into law by Johnson that banned discrimination based on race or on sex; it outlawed discrimination in education, voting, and public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
Popular name of Supreme Court that often made rulings supporting civil liberties.
What is the Warren Court?
300
Name of the program established by Kennedy in 1961 that sent American volunteers around the world on "missions of freedom" to assist developing countries, providing technical, education, and health services.
What is the Peace Corps?
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
Popular name for the medical care for the aged program that came from amending the Social Security Act to provide basic hospital insurance for Americans in the Social Security system who were over the age of 65.
What is Medicare?
400
Name of the Commission that investigated the Kennedy assassination and decided the sniper had acted alone.
What is the Warren Commission?
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
Blue-ribbon panel established by President Kennedy to study how poverty and discrimination affected women.
What is the President's Commission on the Status of Women?
400
1965 act that altered America's quota system from favoring Western European immigrants to allowing more immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere and from Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
400
Federal government plan that started in 1965 and provides medical services to poor and disabled Americans.
What is Medicaid?
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
Chief justice of the Supreme Court during the time of Johnson's presidency. (Both names required)
Who is Earl Warren?
500
Military strategy used by Kennedy that prepared America to fight any type or size of conflict; for instance, use of Green Berets and other special fighting forces. *(Alternative: Name of 1966 Supreme Court case that decided an accused criminal must be informed of his/her 5th and 6th Amendment rights prior to being questioned.)
What is "flexible response"? * (What is Miranda v. Arizona?)