The New Frontier and the Great Society : 4/24/15 Flashcards
_________ __, 1960, __ ______ Americans watched the first televised _________ _____.
September 26, 75 million, presidential debate
The debate between ____ __ ______ and _______ ______ ushered in a new era of television politics.
John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon
______ __ ________, a __________ senator from ___ ____, was a ________.
John F. Kennedy, Democratic, New York, Catholic
_______ ______, was the current vice president, and a _____ from the state of ________.
Richard Nixon, Quaker, California
Both promised to boost the economy, and portrayed themselves as “____ ________,” determined to stop the forces of Communism.
Cold Warriors
_______ expressed concerns about a suspected “______ ___,” claiming the US lagged behind the Soviets in weaponry.
Kennedy, missile gap
The series of __ televised debates influenced the election’s close outcome.
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___ set out to implement a legislative agenda that became known as the ____ _______.
JFK, New Frontier
To increase economic growth and create jobs, Kennedy advocated ______ _______ and investing more funds in ________ and _____ _______.
Deficit spending, defense, space exploration
JFK would respond by threatening to have the ________ of _____ buy cheaper foreign _____.
Department of Defense, steel
He asked the _______ ________ to investigate whether the _____ industry was fixing prices.
Justice Department, steel
The president also pushed for ___ ____, which Congress refused because it would cause _______.
Tax cuts, inflation
In 1961 JFK created the _________ _______ on the ______ of _____ – called for the federal action against gender discrimination and affirmed the right of women to equally paid employment. The commission proposed the ____ ___ ___ in 1963.
Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, Equal Pay Act
In 1961 JFK convened the _______’s _____ on ____ _______–The panel’s first report called for funding of research into developmental disabilities and educational and vocational programs for people with developmental disabilities.
President’s Panel on Mental Retardation
Congress enacted the ______ ________ _____ and _________ ______ ______ ______ _________ of 1963– The legislation provided grants to build research centers and grants to states to construct mental health centers. It also provided funds to train educational personnel to work with people with developmental disabilities.
Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act
In 1962 _______ ______ ______, began a camp at her home for children with developmental disabilities.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
_____ ______, offered people with disabilities a chance to be physically competitive.
Camp Shriver
That effort later grew into the ______ _______ program.
Special Olympics
The first _______ _______ _____ were held in ______ in 1968.
Special Olympics Games, Chicago
In 1952, ____ _____, governor of _______, became the _____ _______ of the US.
Earl Warren, California, chief justice
Some of the Court’s more notable decisions concerned ______________– the method states use to draw up political districts based on changes in population.
Reapportionment
In _______ __ ____ (1964) the Court ruled that states must reapportion electoral districts along the principle of “one person, one vote,” so that all citizen’s votes would have equal weight.
Reynolds v. Sims
___ _______ is a judicial requirement that laws may not treat individuals unfairly, arbitrarily, or unreasonably, and that courts must follow proper procedures and rules when trying cases.
Due process
In ______ __ ______ (1963) the Court ruled that a defendant in a state court had the right to a lawyer regardless of his or her ability to pay.
Gideon v. Wainwright
In _______ __ _______ (1968) would require authorities to inform suspects of their right to remain silent.
Miranda v. Arizona
______ __ _____ (1962) ruled that states could not compose official prayers and require those prayers to be recited in public schools.
Engel v. Vitale
In _______ _____ ____ __ _______ (1963) ruled against state-mandated Bible readings in public schools.
Abington School District v. Schempp
To allow for a “_______ ________” to resist Communist movements, the president pushed for a buildup of troops and conventional weapons.
Flexible response
A program aimed at helping developing nations fight poverty was the _____ _____. This program sent Americans to provide humanitarian services in developing nations.
Peace Corps
In 1961 ____ _______, a Soviet astronaut, became the first person to orbit Earth.
Yury Gagarin
In 1962 ____ _____ became the first American to orbit Earth.
John Glenn
Six years later, the US sent three men into orbit in a capsule called ______.
Apollo
The capsule was launched using the ______ __, the most powerful rocket ever built.
Saturn V
On July 16, 1969, a _____ __ lifted off in ______ carrying three astronauts: Neil ________, Edwin “_____” _____, Michael ______.
Saturn V, Florida, Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Collins
On July 20, ________ and _____ boarded the lunar module named, _____.
Armstrong, Aldrin, Eagle
____ _______ became the first human being to walk on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
______ _____ had overthrown the corrupt _____ dictator _______ _____ in 1959.
Fidel Castro, Cuban, Fulgencio Batista
President Eisenhower had authorized the CIA to secretly train and arm a group of Cuban exiles, known as __ _______.
La Brigada
The invasion was a disaster, __ ______’s boats ran aground on coral reefs.
La Brigada
The ____ __ ____ was a dark moment for the Kennedy administration.
Bay of Pigs
In June 1961, ______ met with ________ in _____, _____.
Kennedy, Khrushchev, Vienna, Austria
_________ demanded that the Western powers recognize East Germany and to withdraw from _____.
Khrushchev, Berlin
The _____ ___ stood as a symbol of Cold War divisions.
Berlin Wall
On October 22, Kennedy announced that the _____ _____ had placed long-range nuclear missiles in ___.
Soviet Union, Cuba
JFK warned that if attacked, the __ would respond fully against the _____ ______.
US, Soviet Union
The _____ _______ _______ forced the US and the Soviet Union to consider the consequences of nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
August 1963, the two countries agreed to a ______ that banned testing nuclear weapons in the ___________.
Treaty, atmosphere
The ______ exposed the Soviet’s military inferiority and prompted a dramatic Soviet arms buildup, which the US matched.
Cuban Missile Crisis
On November 22, 1963, _______ and his wife traveled to ______.
Kennedy, Texas
As the presidential __________ rode slowly through the crowded street of _____, gunfire rang out.
Motorcade, Dallas, TX
___ ______ _______, the man accused of killing JFK, appeared to be a confused embittered ______ who had spent time in the Soviet Union.
Lee Harvey Oswald, Marxist
Local nightclub owner ____ _____, killed Oswald to protect others involved in the crime.
Jack Ruby
In 1964 a national commission headed by Chief Justice ______ concluded that ______ was the lone assassin.
Warren, Oswald
The report of the ______ _________ left some questions unanswered.
Warren Commission
Kennedy’s successor, ______ ______ _______, set out to promote many of the programs that Kennedy left unfinished.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
______ _____ _______ was born and raised in the “___ ______” of central _____.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, hill country, Texas
_______ knew about hard times in his brief career as a ______ in a low-income area.
Johnson, teacher
By summer 1964, Johnson had convinced Congress to pass the _______ _________ ___, which attacked inadequate public services, illiteracy, and unemployment.
Economic Opportunity Act
The ___________ _____ _____ provided work-study programs to help the underprivileged earn a high school diploma or college degree.
Neighborhood Youth Corps
______ _____ was created to offer tutoring to high school students.
Upward Bound
The _________ candidate in 1964 was _____ _________ from ______, known for his _____ _________.
Republican, Barry Goldwater, Arizona, strong conservation
On election day, _______ won in a landslide, gaining more than _____ of the popular vote and winning all but __ stars in the ______ ______.
Johnson, 61%, 6, Electoral College
After his election, ____ began working with Congress on his legislative agenda known as the _____ ______.
LBJ, Great Society
_______ had won strong support because it was offered to all senior citizens, about half of whom lacked insurance.
Medicare
_________ financed health care for welfare recipients living below the poverty line.
Medicaid
______ _____ _____ was created for disadvantaged children who had “never looked at a picture book or scribbled with a crayon”.
Project Head Start
The ____ _____ ___ of _____ outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Civil Rights Act, 1964
The _____ _____ ___ of ____ protected voters from racial discrimination in both voting and practices to bar those from voting.
Voting Rights Act, 1965
_____ ______, was the first African American to serve in a presidential cabinet.
Robert Weaver
_________ ___ ____ _________ ___ established new housing subsidy programs and made federal loans and public housing grants easier to obtain.
Housing and Urban Development Act
____ ________ ___ ________ ____required all consumer products to have a true and informative labels.
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
____ _____ ___ established a school breakfast program and expanded the school lunch and meal programs to improve nutrition.
Child Nutrition Act
During LBJ’s time as president he would see the creation of the ________ __ _________ and a solution to long standing _____ ____ issues.
Department of Transportation, Civil Rights
