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Chapter 19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John F.Kennedy | Won the election of 1960 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Ran against Kennedy. It was a tight presidential election since 1888 |
| Fidel Castro | set up communism in Cuba under the USSR. |
| flexible response | defense policy allowing for the appropiate action in any size or type of conflict |
| Peace Corps | American gov org that sends volunteers to provie 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 CIA-led force of Cuban exiles |
| Cuban missle crisis | 1962 conflict between the US and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missles in Cuba |
| Nikita Krushchev | The Soviet premier whom Kennedy blamed the possible nuclear war on |
| hot line | direct telephone line between the White House and the Kremlin set up after the Cuban missle crisis |
| Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | 1963 nuclear-weapons agreement,which banned aboveground nuclear tests |
| Berlin Wall | dividing wall built by East Germany in 1961 to isolate West Berlin from Communist controlled Germany |
| New Frontier | Pres.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 nation paying out more money than their revenues |
| space race | competition between the US and USSR to develope the technology to successfully land on the moon |
| Warren Commission | committee that investigated the assasination of Kennedy |
| Lyndon B.Johnson | Became president after Kennedy's assasination. He declared war on poverty. He won the presidential election of 1964. Great Society Legislation |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin |
| War on Poverty | Pres.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 | Pres. Johnson's goals in the areas of healthcare ,education, and poverty |
| Medicare | federal program created in 1965 to provide basic hospital insurance to most Americans over 65 |
| 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 quota system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per yr from Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 per yr from Western Hemisphere |
| Warren Court | Supreme Court of the 1960s under Chief Justice Earl Warren whose decisions supported civil rights |
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