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chp 19 gs us vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. John F. Kennedy | was the Democrat candidate for the 1960 presidential election |
| 2. Richard M. Nixon | was the Republican candidate for the 1960 presidential election |
| 3. Fidel Castro | was the communist leader in Cuba |
| 4. "flexible response" | a defense policy that prepared the u.s. to fight any conflict |
| 5. Peace Corps | american volunteers traveled all over the world on "missions of freedom" to help developing countries |
| 6. Alliance for Progress | this promised that the u.s. would practice a "good neighbor" policy towards latin america |
| 7. Bay of Pigs invasion | this invasion failed. strenghtened castro's position in cuba, and 300 of the 1,400 invaders were killed or captured |
| 8. Cuban missile crisis | soviets were building nuclear sites on cuba; missiles were pointed at the u.s. |
| 9. Nikita Khrushchev | was the soviet premier; was blamed for threatening world peace |
| 10. "hot line" | a telephone system between moscow and washington d.c. |
| 11. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | was the first nuclear weapons agreement. (signed by the u.s. great britain and the soviet union |
| 12. Berlin Wall | became a visible symbol in germany splitting the west from the east, capitalists vs. communists |
| 13. New Frontier | Kennedy's term to improve the economy, education, healthcare, and civil rights |
| 14. Equal Pay Act | (1963)equal wages for equal work. for all industries engaged in commerce |
| 15. deficit spending | were the gov. borrows money in order to spend more than is received from taxes |
| 16. "space race" | the competition between the soviet union and the u.s. in developing technology for space |
| 17. Warren Commission | was the official investigation of the assassination of Kennedy |
| 18. Lyndon B. Johnson | became the president after kennedy was assassinated |
| 19. Civil Rights Act | (1964) a law that outlawed discrimination in voting, education, and public accommodations. |
| 20. War on Poverty | johnson's plan to provide training to the jobless, education to the uneducated, and healthcare to those in need. |
| 21. Economic Opportunity Act | help create the job corps to train young men and women ages 16 to 21 in work skills to acquire better jobs |
| 22. Great Society | johnson's term in outlining his vision to make america end its poverty and racial injustice. |
| 23. Medicare | this provides basic hospital insurance for americans in the social security system. 65 or older |
| 24. Medicaid | provided basic medical services to poor and disabled Americans who were not part of the social security system |
| 25. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 | this altered america's quota system . 170,000 immigrants from the eastern hemisphere were allowed into the u.s. |
| 26. Warren Court | (supreme court) was the most liberal this time in american history . decisions supported civil rights, civil liberties, voting rights, and personal privacy. |
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