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Chapter 19
Question | Answer |
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John F. Kennedy | Democratic presidential election of 1960 |
Richard M. Nixon | Republican presidential election of 1960 |
Fidel Castro | new communist regime |
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 for 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 | the Soviet premier |
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 aboveground 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 | President after Kennedy's assassination |
Civil Rights Act | outlawed discrimination in voting, education, and public accommodations |
War on Poverty | president johnsons programs aiming at aiding 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 Johnsons 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 quota system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per year from the eastern hemisphere and 120,000 per year from the western |
Warren Court | supreme court of the 60's under chief justice earl warren whose decisions supported civil rights |