Chapter 20 Flashcards
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Setbacks of the United States included:
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Sputnik and the U-2 incident
2
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Was Kennedy democratic or republican?
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Democratic
3
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Was Nixon democratic or republican?
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Republican
4
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Two factors that help Kennedy win presidency:
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TV and civil rights issue
5
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Kennedy was the ______________ youngest president in the nations history
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Second
6
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What advantage did Kennedy have on the first televised debate?
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He was comfortable in front of the camera and could speak better
7
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When Martin Luther King, which candidate ignored the problem?
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Nixon
8
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When Martin Luther King, which candidate tried to help the problem?
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Kennedy
9
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Because he helped Martin Luther kings family, he won the vote of what population?
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Blacks
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What did the Kennedy’s bring to the White House?
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Elegance
11
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Kennedy’s wife
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Jacqueline
12
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Name of the journalist group and advisors
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The best and the brightest
13
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Which adviser did he rely on the most?
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His brother Robert
14
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What did this reliable adviser receive the job as?
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Attorney general
15
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What did Kennedy focus on?
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Cold War
16
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What was Kennedy’s most urgent task?
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Redefine the nations nuclear strategy
17
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What did Kennedy’s advisors come up with to remove the threat of the use of nuclear arms?
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Flexible response
18
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What did Kennedy increase the spending of?
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Defense- such as troops, ships and artillery
19
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The 35th president of the United States who won praise for his well crafted speech
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John F. Kennedy
20
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Did the first test of Kennedys foreign-policy come in
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Cuba
21
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Revolutionary leader of Cuba
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Fidel Castro
22
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Castro gained power with the promise of _____________
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Democracy
23
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Fidel Castro let a guerrilla movement to topple dictator who
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Fulgencio Batista
24
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Where did Castro break up
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Commercial farms
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Who did Cuba rely increasingly on
Soviet union
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10% of Cuba's population went into _________
Exile
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In March 1960, President Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly do what
Secretly train Cuban exiles for an invasion of Cuba
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What did they hope that The result of the secret training would do
Overthrow Castro
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The island on which US military landed
Bay of pigs
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What failed after they landed at bay of pigs
An airstrike
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What did Kennedy do with Castro to release the surviving commanders
Tried to give him $53 million
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Since the Soviet union and Cuba were closely allied together, the Soviet union gave Cuba what?
Missiles
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What would a missile attack from Cuba trigger
An all out attack on the Soviet union
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What did Kennedy set up in the ocean
A naval blockade
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Khrushchev offered to remove the missiles in return for what
American pledge not to invade Cuba
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What did many exiles blame the Democrats for doing
Losing Cuba
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What was one goal that Kennedy gad through the Cuban missile crisis
Proving to Khrushchev is the determination to contain communism
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Concrete wall tile that severed the city in two
Berlin Wall
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Kennedy's determination in America superior nuclear strike empowered prevented crew ships from closing what
The air and land routes between West Berlin in West Germany
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What aggravated Cold War tensions more
The Berlin wall
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A dedicated phone enabled the 2 Leaders of the countries to communicate in case another crisis arises
Hotline
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Barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere
Limited test ban treaty
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First American to go into space
Alan Shepard
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The vision that Kennedy had to be new pioneers and to explore science and space
The new frontier
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Kennedy had the same trouble as who, when trying to get ideas passed?
Truman
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A clear indication that voters approved of his plans
Mandate
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Why did Kennedy lack a popular mandate
He was elected by the slimmest of margins
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In what ways did Kennedy persuade congress to enact measures?
By boosting the economy, building a national defense, providing international aid, and funding a massive space program
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What was one domestic problem that the Kennedy team tackled?
The economy
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What did Kennedy's advisors push for the use of?
Deficit spending
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What was minimum wage raised to ?
$1.25
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The first campaign promise that Kennedy fulfilled
Peace corps
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A program kid volunteer assistance to the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Peace corps
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What did United States call the peace corps
Kennedys Kiddie Korps
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Whydid the US called the peace corps that name
Because the volunteers in it were just out of college
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The second foreign aid program
Alliance for progress
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Offered economic and technical assistance to African American countries
Alliance for progress
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How much money was invested into Latin America
$12 billion
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Why did the United States invest money into Latin America
To deter these countries from picking up Fidel Castro revolutionary ideas
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Soviet cosmonaut that was first in space
Yuri A. Gagarin
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Communication satellite that relayed live television pictures across the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to Europe
Telstar
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Who took the first steps on the moon
Neil Armstrong
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Results of the space program
Universities expanded their science programs
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What was happening in the South during the space race
Segregation
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After the space race was over Kennedy started focusing more on what
The African-Americans
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Where was JFK killed shut
Dallas Texas
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Where was Kennedy shot
In The head
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Who killed Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
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Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
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Where was Lyndon B. Johnson elected in the office
Air Force One
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They investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president were acting on his own
The Warren commission
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What is an explanation to Oswald killing Kennedy
A plot by anti-Castro Cubans, to a communist sponsored attack, to a conspiracy by the CIA
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Succeeded to the presidency, his ambition and drive has become legendary
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Did Lyndon grow up
Texas
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Where did Johnson serve in the government before he became president
The US House of Representatives
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Who did Johnson idolize
Kennedy
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After he was in the House of Representatives where did he serve
Senate
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The voting rights measure that was the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction
Civil rights act of 1957
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What did Congress pass in February 1964
A tax reduction of over 10 billion into law
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What did the tax cuts spur
Economic growth
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Persuading southern senators to stop blocking its passage. If prohibited discrimination based on race religion natural origins and sex and granted the federal government new powers to enforce its provisions
Civil rights act of 1964
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The approving of nearly $1 billion for youth programs, anti-poverty measures, small business loans, and job training
Economic opportunity act
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What did the EOA legislation create
Job corps youth training program, Vista, Headstart, the community action program
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Who was the 1964 election against
Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Johnson
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What did Barry Goldwater believe
The government had no business trying to write social and economic wrong
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Who won the 1964 election
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Legislation program that would create not only a higher standard of living in equal opportunity, but also promote a richer quality of life
Great Society
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Provided more than $1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools purchase text books and new library materials
And secondary education act of 1965
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Provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost every American age 65 or older
Medicare
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Extended health insurance to welfare recipients
Medicaid
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Shifted the nation's political power from rural to urban areas
Department of housing and urban development
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The first African Americancabinet member in American history
Robert Weaver
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These Alex is stab list them a Gratian quotas the discriminated strongly against people from outside western Europe
The immigration act of 1924 on the national origins act of 1924
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Open the door for many non-European immigrants to settle in the United States but ending quotas based on nationality
Immigration act of 1965
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Book written by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
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Client states to clean up rivers and to search out the worst chemical polluters known
Water quality act of 1965
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A truth in the packaging law that set standards for labeling consumer goods
Wholesome meat act of 1967
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Ruled under school segregation unconstitutional
Brown versus Board of Education
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Chief justice during the Brown versus Board of Education
Earl Warren
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Banned prayer in public schools and declared state required loyalty oath unconstitutional
Warren court
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The way in which states redraw election districts based on the changes number of people in them
Reapportionment
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The first of several decisions that established the principle of one person one vote
Baker v. Carr
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Extended the principle of one person one vote to state legislative districts
Reynolds v. Sims
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Court ruled the evidence seized it legally cannot be used in state courts
Mapp v. Ohio
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Justices required criminal courts to provide free legal counsel to those who could not afford it
Gideon versus Wainwright
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This is rolled under an accused person has a right to have a lawyer present during police questioning
Escobedo v. Illinois
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Ruled that all suspects must be read their rights before questioning
Miranda versus Arizona
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The great Society contributed to a growing what
Budget deficit
