New Frontier
What was Kennedy's slogan "New Frontier" meant to symbolize?
The vigor of youth
What experience did Johnson have before becoming president?
U.S senate experience
Where is Vietnam located?
In the eastern part of Indochina(a large peninsula directly south of China)
Who were the "hawks"?
What was Betty Friedan's book called?
The Feminine Mystique
What did Kennedy announce when competing with the Russian space program
that the U.S would place a man on the moon by the end of the decade
What was the most enduring part of Johnson's "great society" programs?
The introduction of medicare and medicaid
What was the domino theory?
American belief that if they did not make a stand, communism would spread and cause all southeast Asian countries to fall.
Why did people start to lose faith in the trustworthiness of the government?
Johnson told the Americans they were winning the war, when they were not
What did the Equal opportunity do?
prohibit universities and schools receiving federal aid from discriminating in their educational programs
What act was signed in 1963?
Equal pay acts
What were the 3 programs established by the Economic Opportunity Act?
Job corps, VISTA, community action programs
Why did South Vietnamese Comunists form a revolutionary army?
Diem refused to hold elections required by the Geneva Accords
What did American political leaders realize?
they not only had to fight the war but had to manage its public relations
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Roe vs Wade case?
A woman has constitutional right to privacy under the 14th amandment