JFK test

Question 1

Bay of pigs

Answer 1

We trained Cuban exiles to attack Castro and his forces but in night of attack nothing went as planned and it was a huge failure

Question 2

New frontier

Answer 2

Kennedy’s ideas about progress in exploring science and space

Question 3

Flexible response

Answer 3

Expand military power so as to avoid nuclear war

increased defense spending in order to boost
conventional military forces—nonnuclear forces such as
troops, ships, and artillery—and to create an elite branch of
the army called the Special Forces, or Green Berets

Question 4

Peace corps

Answer 4

Volunteers who helped 3rd world countries develop

Question 5

Berlin Wall

Answer 5

Khrushchev wanted to close all roads to and from east Berlin but Kennedy refused so he just built the Berlin Wall instead

Question 6

Warren court decisions

Answer 6

In Mapp v. Ohio (1961), the Court ruled that evidence seized illegally could not be used in state courts. This is called the exclusionary rule. In Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the justices required criminal courts to provide free legal counsel to those who could not afford it. In Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), the justices ruled that an accused person has a right to have a lawyer present during police questioning. In 1966, the Court went one step fur- ther in Miranda v. Arizona, where it ruled that all suspects must be read their rights before questioning. (See Miranda v. Arizona, page 694.)

Question 7

Yuri Gagarin

Answer 7

First human in space

Question 8

Economic Opportunity Act (VISTA)

Answer 8

Made: job core youth training program
Vista
Project head start- helped get poor in preschool
Community action program- encouraged poor to participate in public works programs

Question 9

Primary and secondary education act

Answer 9

provided more than $1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools purchase textbooks and new library materials