Leaders
The person who won the election of 1960
Who was John F. Kennedy?
The first American astronaut in space.
Who was Alan Shepard?
Communists in South Vietnam who wanted to overthrow the non-Communist government there.
Who were the Viet Cong?
Healthcare programs created in 1965 for the elderly and low-income individuals.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
The barrier erected in 1961 by the Communist government in East Berlin to prevent movement between the two sides of the city.
What was the Berlin Wall?
Passed in 1971, it granted voting rights to citizens age 18 and older.
What is the 26th Amendment?
The winner of the election of 1968.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Act of Congress that attempted to limit the president's power to use American troops abroad.
What is the War Powers Act?
President Johnson's legislative program to end poverty and inequality.
What was the Great Society?
What is November 22, 1963?
Succeeded Kennedy as president and won the election of 1964.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
The Democratic presidential candidate who was assassinated in 1968
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
Nixon's plan to increase the fighting ability of the South Vietnamese army and gradually withdraw American troops from Vietnam.
What was Vietnamization?
Radical groups that hoped to use resentment of the war as a means of overthrowing established American institutions.
What was the "New Left"?
Disastrous "secret" attack on Cuba that was a great embarrassment to JFK.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
The Cuban dictator who came to power in 1959.
Who was Fidel Castro?
Two of the 3 men running for the Democratic nomination for President in 1968
Who were Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey? (need 2)
The simultaneous attack on January 31, 1968, by Communist forces in Vietnam against cities and strategic points in South Vietnam.
What was the Tet Offensive?
The term John Fl. Kennedy used to describe the unknown opportunities and perils of the 1960s.
What was the "New Frontier"?
The incident in which four students were shot and killed by National Guard troops during an antiwar protest.
What is the Kent State Shooting?
Communist leader in Vietnam who defeated the French in 1954.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953-1969.
Who was Earl Warren?
Congressional action that gave the president power to increase American military involvement in Vietnam.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
What was Domino Theory?
Vietnam's neighbor that US forces attacked in 1970, renewing antiwar sentiment.
What is Cambodia?