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ch 19
Ch. 19 Vocabulary :)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John F. Kennedy | democratic nominee for the 1960 presidential election, won against Nixon |
| Richard M. Nixon | Republican nominee for the 1960 presidential election, lost to Kennedy |
| Fidel Castro | leader of the communist regime in Cuba |
| flexible response | defense policy allowing for the appropriate action in any size or type of conflict |
| Peace Corps | American government organization that sends volunteers to provide technical, educational, and medical services in developing countries |
| Alliance for Progress | President Kennedy's program that gave economic aid to Latin America |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | 1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles |
| Cuban missile crisis | 1962 conflict between the US and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet premier who was blamed by Kennedy for destruction of world peace |
| hot line | direct telephone line between the White House and the Kremlin set up after the Cuban missile crisis |
| Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | 1963 nuclear-weapons agreement, which banned above ground nuclear tests |
| Berlin Wall | dividing wall built by East Germany in 1961 to isolate West Berlin from communist controlled East Berlin |
| New Frontier | President Kennedy's plan aimed at improving the economy, fighting racial discrimination, and exploring space |
| Equal Pay Act | 1963 law that required both men and women to receive equal pay for equal work |
| deficit spending | practice of a nation paying out more money than it is receiving in revenues |
| space race | the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon |
| Warren Commission | committee that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy |
| Lyndon B Johnson | became president after Kennedy's assassination, who also shared the same goals as Kennedy |
| Civil Rights Act | outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin |
| War on Poverty | President Johnson's programs aimed at aiding the country's poor through education, job training, proper health care, and nutrition |
| Economic Opportunity Act | law passed in 1964 creating antipoverty programs |
| Great Society | President Johnson's goals in the areas of health care, education, the environment, discrimination, and poverty |
| Medicare | federal program created in 1965 to provide basic hospital insurance to most Americans age 65 and over |
| Medicaid | federal program created in 1965 to provide low-cost health insurance to poor Americans of any age |
| Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 | law that changed the national quote system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per year from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 per year from the Western Hemisphere |
| Warren Court | Supreme Court of the 1960s under Chief of Justice Earl Warren, whose decisions supported civil rights |
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