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Who did JFK Replace?

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Eisenhower

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Who was JFK’s Wife?

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Jacqueline

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Which broadway show was JFK compared to?

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King Arthur of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table

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4
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What # presidency was JFK?

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35

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What was JFK’s famous quote?

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“Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country”

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6
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what was the Kennedy Style?

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elegance and young vigor at festivity

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People liked Kennedy’s charisma. What is charisma?

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combination of charm and personal magnetism causing others to like and support you

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The senator said JFK was a combo of who?

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Elvis Presley and FDR

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9
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Who was JFK’s opponent?

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Nixon

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10
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Which candidate seemed stronger on TV?

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JFK

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11
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Which candidate seemed stronger on radio?

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Nixon

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12
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Why was this presidential election process so significiant?

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1st TV presidential debate

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13
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What was Kennedy’s list of reforms called?

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New Frontier

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What did his new frontier include?

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  • increase in education aid
  • end poverty
  • tax cut
  • riase mimimum wage
  • fund med care for elderly
    make cities lievelier
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What was the list of programs to enact called?

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Legislative Agenda

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What did the legislative agenda do during JFK?

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  • raised minimum wage

- urban developments

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Kennedy’s 2-part approach for ecoomic recovery

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  • increase spending on defense (boost budget by 20%)

- tax cut

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Where did JFK visit to improve the desegregation circumstances?

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Birmingham, Alabama

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What was the USSR’s 1st artificial Satellite into Earth’s orbit?

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Sputnik/Little Traveler

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What was the 2nd satelite launch into Earth’s orbit called for the USSR?

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Sputnik II (dog inside)

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21
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What was ridiculed?

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US rockets later nicknamed “flopnicks” and “Kaputniks”

22
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Which physicist wanted to find Russians on moon?

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Edward Teller

23
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What did Eisenhower create for space?

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NASA

24
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During JFK’s office, what did NASA do?

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launch 1st communication and weather satellites to space

25
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Who was the 1st human sent to space?

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USSR: Yuri Gagarin

26
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Who orbited the orbit Earth for the 1st time?

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John Glenn

27
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Who reached the moon in the Apollo Space Program?

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Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin “Buzz” Alderin JR

28
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What was passed for education?

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National Education Act allowed for AP classes to take place; students were also allowed to have GRANTS in college

29
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What program was made to help gain support?

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Vista Program for immigrants to volunteer for service in US

30
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Who was Castro’s opponent?

A

Fulgencio Batista

31
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Regime

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government

32
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exiles

A

people who live outside their home country

33
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CIA

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trained Cuban exiles in Florida and Guatemala as guerrilla fighters

34
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Which CIA director said if Kennedy does not act now, Castro will not be able to be topped from his influence on Latin America?

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Allen Dulles

35
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What is done during Bay of Pigs?

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Cuban army of exiles enters Bay of Pigs; plan was to arrive on empty beaches, however the boats were caught on coral reef; Cuban troops were captured and Kennedy refused to send war planes

36
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What did Kennedy and USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev do?

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meet at Vienna, Austria

37
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Berlin Wall

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wall between east and west berlin to prevent refugees from crossing

38
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What group did Kennedy establish that had 12 trustees?

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Executive Committee for National Security (ExCom)

39
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What did ExCom agree to?

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US will halt construction of USSR missile sites

40
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What was Kennedy’s plan immediately before the missile crisis?

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Quarantine- a plan blockade under international law, establishing a naval blockade as an act of war; quarentine island! If Cuba launches missile, it is WWIII. Soviets TURN AROUND after 13 days

41
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The Negotiation after Cuban Missile Crisis

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Khrushchev wants Kennedy to agree to remove USSR missiles from Cuba if they promised not to invade Cuba
- Kennedy says they’ll move the Cuban missiles in exchange for US removing missiles it had placed in Turkey (outdated)

42
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What was teh outcome/settlement of the negotiation of The missile crisis?

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ExCom pretended they didn’t receive the 2nd note with deal. Kennedy accepted 1st deal and privately told Soviety embassy to agree with 2nd plan

43
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what was established to ease tension between US and USSR and Britain?

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Hotline- line of communication would be open ALL times

44
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US, USSR and Breat Britain sign what?

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Test Ban treaty

- no atmosphere explosion testing

45
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Peace Corps

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sent 1000s of men and women to get local educations, farming and health care (developments) and launched ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS )goal to provide economic and technical aid to Latin American nations

46
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Kennedy’s assassination by who? Where

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By Lee Harvey Oswald at Dallas Texas while he was with John Connolly governor

47
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Who was the next 36th president after JFK?

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Lyndon B Johnson

48
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Who was Oswald shot by?

A

Jack Ruby

49
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Where was JFK buried and what was included in the session/

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Arlington National Cemetery; Eternal gas flame was lit

50
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What did Johnson create?

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Warren Commission to investigate the murder

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