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Chapter 19 pg. 614

The Kennedy and Johnson Years

QuestionAnswerConducted
John F. Kennedy In 1960, Kennedy as a Democrat was running for president.
Richard M. Nixon Was a candidate for president.
Fidel Castro Had a new communist regime.
Flexible Response A defense policy.
Peace Corps Sent American volunteers around the world.
Alliance For Progress Resurrect America's Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America.
Bay of Pigs Invasion The invasion was badly mismanaged.
Cuban Missile Crisis The U.S. intelligence discovered that the Soviets were building nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
Nikita Khrushchev A Soviet premier.
Hot Line A telephone system between Moscow and Washington, D.C.
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty The first nuclear-weapons agreement.
Berlin Wall A visible symbol of the reality of the two Germanys and the gulf between the communist East and democratic West.
New Frontier It was to improve the economy, education, healthcare, and civil rights.
Equal Pay Act Required equal wages for "equal work" in industries engaged in commerce or producing goods for commerce.
Deficit Spending To stimulate the economy.
Space Race A competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. to develop technology to successfully land on the moon.
Warren Commission Conducted the official investigation of the assassination.
Lyndon B. Johnson Became president after Kennedy's assassination.
Civil Rights Act It outlawed discrimination in voting, education, and public accomodations.
War On Poverty Was to train the jobless, educate the uneducated, and provide healthcare for those in need.
Economic Opportunity Act Created the Job Corps to train young men and women betweenthe ages of 16 and 21 in the work skills they needed to acquire better jobs and move out of poverty.
Great Society Americans increased the society.
Medicare Medical Care for the Aged Program.
Medicaid Provided basic medical services to poor and disabled Americans who were not part of the Soviet Security system.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 Altered America's quota system.
Warren Court The most liberal in American history.
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