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Kennedy Review
Kennedy Review US History II B
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Kennedy attend what College? | Harvard |
| Before becoming President Kennedy served as____ from Mass. | Senator |
| Kennedy served in what branch of the military during World War II | Navy |
| What was the name of the book he wrote | Profiles in Courage |
| The first American in space | Alan Shepard |
| The first American to orbit Earth | John Glenn |
| Kennedy's famous quote | Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country |
| The United States held Nuclear Missiles in this country | Turkey |
| The 1960 election was historical because: | One of the closest in American history. The winner won the popular vote by a slim margin of approximately 100,000 votes. |
| Kennedy created | The Peace Corp. |
| Kennedy's domestic policy | The New Frontier |
| Kennedy uses this to stop ships with military supplies from entering into Cuba | Quarantine |
| Its mission is to explore space and aeronautics or flight research | NASA |
| Cuban dictator who supported Communism | Fidel Castro |
| Pro-American dictatorial President of Cuba | Fulgencio Batista |
| The CIA used these people to help the invasion during the Bay of Pigs | Cuban exiles |
| The following is one reason why the Bay of Pigs invasion did not work | Backup paratroopers landed in the wrong place |
| Cuban Missile Crisis lasted how long | 13 days |
| Who built the Berlin Wall | The Soviets |
| The Bay of Pigs was an invasion of what country | Cuba |
| The Berlin Wall separated what two governmental ideologies | Communism and Democracy |
| Who killed John F. Kennedy | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Where did Lyndon B. Johnson take the oath of office | aboard Air Force One |
| What led the United States to believe that there was nuclear missiles in Cuba | Photographic evidence |
| An area that prevented East Germans from coming near the Berlin wall | Dead man zone |
| How do Kennedy and Khrushchev communicate during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Letters |