Kennedy
New Frontier
Great Society
Cold War Heats up
Cold War in US
100
Which Kennedy?
JFK
100
Man charged with killing JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
100
Daily Hextuple!!! Name the six Great Society Reforms. 100pt/Reform
Medicare, Medicaid, Immigration Act of 1965, Water Quality Act of 1965, Truth-in Packaging Law, Wholesome Meat act of 1967
100
China became ________
Communist Country
100
M.A.D
Mutually Assured Destruction
200
1960 elections between who?
Kennedy and Nixon
200
November 22, 1963
JFK Killed
200
Great Society
LBJ's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and promise a better quality of life int he US
200
July 1953 found this being signed between opposite sides of the Korean War
armistice/cease-fire
200
You were sent to prison for refusing to answer questions to what group
HUAC
300
strengthening and modernizing the military's ability to fight a nuclear war
Flexible Response
300
Alliance for Progress
Offered economic and technical assistance to Latin American countries
300
Approved nearly $1 billion for youth programs, antipoverty measures, small business loans and job training
Economic Opportunity Act (EOA)
300
38th Parallel
Japanese troops north surrendered to soviets (Communist), south surrendered to US (Democracy)
300
Truman created this in 1947 which included a Loyalty Review Board
Federal Employee Loyalty Program
400
Nikita Khrushchev povided Cuba with these, leading to a blockade of Cuba by the United States--closest we have ever come to MAD
Cuban Missile Crisis
400
Peace Corps
program of volunteer assistance to the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
400
Civil Rights act of 1957
voting rights measure that was the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction
400
Attacked South Korea believing that US would not fight to defend
North Korea
400
Practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression
Brinkmanship
500
Originally supported by US military, Cuban exiles landed on this expecting backup which never came
Bay of Pigs
500
legislative program which included proposals to provide medical care for the elderly, rebuild blighted urban areas, aid education, bolster national defense, increase international aid, and expand the space program
New Frontier
500
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibited discrimination and gave federal govenrment new powers to enforce it
500
Did the Korean War official end?
No
500
Attacks often unsubstantiated on people suspected of being communists in early 1950s
McCarthyism