Chapter 29

Question 1

What was the impact of Kennedy’s administration?

Answer 1

he was the youngest Pres. to be elected and also go assassinated.

Question 2

L.B. Johnson’s Great Society

Answer 2

President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.

Question 3

L.B Johnson Medicare

Answer 3

A program of national health insurance created by the Social Security Amendments of 1965, this program gave health insurance for persons who were over the age of 65 or seriously disabled. Although some states refused to administer the insurance the Kerr-Mills Act of 1960 provided federal support for state medical programs.

Question 4

L.B. Johnson Medicaid

Answer 4

a federal and state assistance program that pays for health care services for people who cannot afford them

Question 5

L.B. Johnson Voting right act of 1965

Answer 5

It guaranteed the right to vote to all Americans, and allowed the federal government to intervene in order to ensure that minorities could vote

Question 6

L.B. Johnson Civil Right Act 1964

Answer 6

Prohibited discrimination of African Americans in employment, voting, or public accommodations. Also said there could be no discrimination against race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.

Question 7

L.B. Johnson The office of Economic opportunity

Answer 7

it created an array of of new educational, employment, housing, and health care programs.

Question 8

L.B. Johnson immigration reform act

Answer 8

This law made it easier for entire families to migrate and established “special categories” for political refugees. This act increased the amount of immigration.

Question 9

L.B. Johnson Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Answer 9

directed money to schools for textbooks, library materials, and special education

Question 10

The legacies of the Great Society

Answer 10

It contribute the greatest reduction in poverty in american history.

Question 11

Civil Right Act 1965

Answer 11

it protected blacks when they voted.

Question 12

Flexible Response

Answer 12

they needed a more flexible way than the atomic weapon defense strategy

Question 13

Geneva Conference

Answer 13

An agreement to end the Vietnam conflict without American participation.

Question 14

What was the NLF

Answer 14

it was military strategy in south vietnam to bring the nation together.

Question 15

What did Kennedy approve in vietnam?

Answer 15

gave permission to over throw the south Pres.

Question 16

How did L.B Johnson approach Vietnam?

Answer 16

He declared War. and expanded the American involvement in Vietnam

Question 17

Geneva Accords

Answer 17

when it was established the US immediately became the principal benefactor of the new government in the south.

Question 18

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 18

It authorized the Pres. to take all necessary measures to protect America forces and prevent further aggression in South East Asia

Question 19

Tet

Answer 19

This offense weekend the Communist Army for months and it was a US military victory, but it was a lost for politics.

Question 20

22nd amendment

Answer 20

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

Question 21

23rd amendment

Answer 21

the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.

Question 22

24th amendment

Answer 22

prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.

Question 23

25th amendment

Answer 23

if the president is killed or disables the vice president becomes president