Question | Answer |
John F. Kennedy | 1st President elected with television influence |
Richard Nixon | Republican who ran against Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race. |
Fidel Castro | |
flexible response | defense policy allowing for the appropriate action in any 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 which gave economic aid to Latin America |
Boy of Pigs invasion | 1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA led force of Cuban exiles |
Cuban missile crisis | 1962 conflict between the US and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba |
hot line | direct telephone line between the White House and the Kremlin set up after the Cuban missile crisis |
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | |
Berlin Wall | dividing wall built by East Germany in 1961 to isolate West Berlin from Communist controlled East Berlin |
What strategies did Kennedy use to improve relations between the US and developing countries? | He established the Peace Corps to create goodwill in developing countries. |
How did the meeting in Vienna affect relations between Kennedy and Khrushchev? | Tensions rose and threatened peace. Kennedy asked Congress to dramatically increase military spending. Khrushchev ordered the construction of the wall between East and West 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 |
deficit spending | practice of a nation paying out more money than it is receiving in revenues |
space race | the competition between the US and the Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon |
Warren Commission | committee that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy |
NASA | created in October 1958 to explore space |
Lyndon B Johnson | became President after Kennedy's assassination. |
Civil Rights Act | outlawed discrimination in public place and employment based on race, religion, or national origin |
War on Poverty | Presidnet5 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 | President Johnson's goals in the areas of health care, education, the environment, discrimination, and poverty |
Medicare | federal program created in 1965 to provide basic hospital insurance to most Americans over the age of sixty-five |
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 decisions supported civil rights |
What were some of the rulings in Warren Court? | separation of Church and State, rights for criminals, one man one vote |