The New Frontier and the Great Society - Chapter 28

Question 1

35th president of the United States

Answer 1

John F. Kennedy

Question 2

Policy of using nonnuclear weapons to fight a war

Answer 2

Flexible response

Question 3

Ruler of Cuba

Answer 3

Fidel Castro

Question 4

Barrier built to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin

Answer 4

Berlin Wall

Question 5

Direct phone line between the White House and the Kremlin

Answer 5

Hot line

Question 6

Treaty that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere

Answer 6

Limited Test Ban Treaty

Question 7

The name given to Kennedy’’s domestic program

Answer 7

New Frontier

Question 8

An overwhelming show of support by voters

Answer 8

Mandate

Question 9

A program that enlisted volunteers to help in poor countries

Answer 9

Peace Corps

Question 10

A program that supplied aid to Latin America

Answer 10

Alliance for Progress

Question 11

The body that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy

Answer 11

Warren Commission

Question 12

36th president of the United States

Answer 12

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Question 13

Act that created numerous antipoverty measures

Answer 13

Economic Opportunity Act

Question 14

Name given to Johnson’s domestic agenda

Answer 14

Great Society

Question 15

Health benefits for the elderly and poor

Answer 15

Medicare and Medicaid

Question 16

Established new immigration system that allowed more immigration into the U.S.

Answer 16

Immigration Act of 1965

Question 17

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren

Answer 17

Warren Court

Question 18

The way in which states redraw their election districts

Answer 18

Reapportionment