Kennedy Presidency
JFK defeated this Republican candidate in the 1960 election.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This failed 1961 invasion attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
LBJ became president after this event.
What is JFK’s assassination?
This Supreme Court case declared segregation in schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Civil rights leader who led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This event on November 22, 1963 ended Kennedy’s presidency.
What is the assassination of JFK?
This wall built in 1961 symbolized the divide between East and West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Johnson’s ambitious reform program was called this.
What is the Great Society?
This protest began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
African American leader who promoted Black Power and was assassinated in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
True or False? Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian head of the Soviet Union, was politically humiliated by Kennedy in the Cold War.
what is.... FALSE?
The 1962 crisis involving Soviet missiles in Cuba nearly led to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Johnson declared this nationwide campaign to help the poor.
What is the War on Poverty?
MLK’s philosophy centered on this type of protest.
What is nonviolent resistance / civil disobediance?
The 1964 law that banned segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Kennedy’s domestic program was known by this name
What is the New Frontier?
The Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
These two healthcare programs were created under LBJ.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
This event included the 1963 speech with the famous phrase “I Have a Dream.”
What is the March on Washington?
This movement emphasized militant self-defense and racial pride.
What is Black Power?
JFK created this program to send volunteers to help developing nations
What is the Peace Corps?
JFK’s strategy to stop missiles from reaching Cuba was called this.
What is a quarantine (naval blockade)?
This 1965 law ended national-origin immigration quotas.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
This 1965 event saw protestors attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
What is Bloody Sunday?
This famous boxer changed his name and refused to be drafted into Vietnam?
Who is Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali?