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US history ch 19
The Kennedy and Johnson Years
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John F. Kennedy | Democrat nominee in election of 1960 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Republican nominee in election of 1960 |
| Fidel Castro | head of Communist regime in Cuba |
| flexible response | defense policy allowing for the appropriate action in any size or type of conflict |
| Peace Corps | American government organization that sends volunteers to provide technical, educational, and medical services in developing countries |
| Alliance for Progress | President Kennedy's program that gave economic aid to Latin America |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | 1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles |
| Cuban missile crisis | 1962 conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet head of Communist party |
| hot line | direct telephone line between the White House and the Kremlin set up after the Cuban missile crisis |
| Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | 1963 nuclear-weapons agreement, which banned aboveground nuclear tests |
| Berlin Wall | dividing wall built by East Germant in 1961 to isolate West Berlin from Communist controlled East Berlin |
| New Frontier | President Kennedy's plan aimed at improving the economy, fighting racial discrimination, and exploring space |
| Equal Pay Act | 1963 law that required both men and women to receive equal pay for equal work |
| Defecit spending | practice of a nation paying out more money than it is receiving in revenues |
| space race | the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon |
| Warren Commission | committee that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | became President after Kennedy's assassination |
| Civil Rights Act | became law in the summer of 1964 |
| War on Poverty | President Johnson's programs aimed at aiding the country's poor through education, job training, proper health care, and nutrition |
| Economic Opportunity Act | law passed in 1964 creating antipoverty programs |
| Great Society | Johnson's vision for America |
| Medicare | federal program created in 1965 to provide basic hospital insurance to most Americans 65 and over |
| Medicaid | federal program created in 1965 to provide low-cost health insurance to poor Americans of any age |
| Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 | law that changed the national quota system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per year from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 per year from the Western Hemisphere |
| Warren Court | Supreme Court of the 1960s under Chief Justice Earl Warren, whose decision supported civil rights |
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