What program spread peace in other countries and was the nost successful Kennedy program to help poorer nations?
What is the Peace Corps?
100
North Koreans captured the US spy ship in 1968.
What is the Pueblo incident?
100
The Johnson Doctrine aimed to stop the spread of Communism in this area.
What is Latin America?
100
President Johnson was successful in getting Congress to support his Great Society programs because of this character trait.
What is his experience and skill as a politician?
200
This group could no longer escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall was constructed.
What is East Germans?
200
The US did this after discovering Soviet missiles in Cuba.
What is a naval blockade of Cuba?
200
The group that investigated the Kennedy assassination and found no evidence of conspiracy.
What is the Warren Commission?
200
Johnson's war on poverty started with the passage of this act
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
200
The reason there was a decline in the Great Society.
What is expensive foreign policy decisions?
300
This act by Castro caused poor relations with the US in 1960.
What is he seized American property in Cuba?
300
Describe JFK's family background.
What is wealthy, politically powerful Roman Catholic family?
300
Assassinated JFK.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
300
This was the name of Johnson's domestic programs.
What is the Great Society?
300
Republican senator who suggested using nuclear weapons to end the war in Vietnam.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
400
American and Soviet officials took steps to ease tensions between the superpowers after this event.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
The reason Congress did not support JFK's "New Frontier"
What is JFK did not have a clear mandate to convince Congress to go along with his plans?
400
JFK's most trusted adviser.
What is Robert Kennedy, his brother and his attorney general?
400
This guided President Johnson's policies in Vietnam.
What is his commitment to contain communism?
400
Many of JFK's proposals failed because this group opposed them.
Who is Congress?
500
This caused Fidel Castro to turn to the Soviet Union for protection from the US?
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
500
Kennedy expanded this program to bolster the nation's prestige and power after several foreign policy set backs, and it became the symbol of the New Frontier.
What is the space program?
500
Strategy designed to enable the nation to avoid using nuclear weapons in times of crisis.
What is flexible response?
500
Johnson gained support in Congress for his Great Society programs because he used this.
What is JFK's popularity?
500
This group of voters benefited from the Supreme Court Rulings of Reynolds v. Simms and Westberry v. Sanders.