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1.John F.Kennedy elected to Congress in 1964 and to the Senate in the early 1950s
2.Richard M.Nixon supported the Cold War fight against communism
3.Fidel Castro ruler of cuba
4.flexible response defense policy allowing for the appropriate action in any size or type of conflict
5.Peace Corps government organization that sends volunteers to provide technical,educational,and medical services
6.Alliance for Progress President Kennedy's program that gave economic aid to Latin America
7.Bay of Pigs invasion failed invasion of Cuba
8.Cuban missile crisis conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba
9.Nikita Khrushchev Soviet premier,for causing a "reckless and provocative threat to world peace
10.hot line direct telephone line between the White House and the Kremlin
11.Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963 nuclear-weapons agreement
12.Berlin Wall dividing wall
13.New Frontier President Keneedy's plan
14.Equal pay Act 1963 law that required both men and women to recieve equal pay for equal work
15.deficit spending practice of a nation paying out more money than it is receiving in revenues
16.space race the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
17.Warren Commission committee that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy
18.Lydon B.Jhonson became President after Kennedy's assassination
19.Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination in public places and employment
20.War on Poverty President Johnson's programs aimed at aiding the country's poor
21.Economic Opportunity Act law passed in 1964 creating antipoverty programs
22.Great Society President Johnson's goals in the areas of health care,education,the environment,discrimination,and poverty
23.Medicare provide basic hospital insurance to most Americans age 65 and over
24.Medicaid provide low-cost health insurance to poor Americans of any age
25.Immigration and Nationality act of 1965 aw that changed the national quota system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per year
26.warren Court Supreme Court of the 1960s under Chief Justice Earl Warren,whose decisions supported civil rights
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