Chapter 28

Question 2

John F. Kennedy

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35th president of the United States on January 1961

Question 3

Richard M. Nixon

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Did not win against Jonh F. Kennedy as he looking better to the public eye.

Question 4

Martin Luther King Jr. –

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Reverend was arrested by Atlanta Georgia police and 33 other African–American demonstrators for sitting in a segregated stop.

Question 5

Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife

Question 6

Robert Kennedy his brother and campaign manager

Answer 6

persuaded the judge who had sentenced King to release the civil rights leader on bail

Question 7

Flexible Response this policy enforced the increased defense spending on military forces nonnuclear forces such as troops

Answer 7

ships

Question 8

Fidel Castro leader of Cuba who declared himself as a communist and welcomed aid from the Soviet Union

Question 9

Bay of Pigs April 17

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1961

Question 10

Cuban Missile Crisis Cuba gets missiles from the Soviet Union and America reacts to declare a war

Question 11

Nikita Khrushchev Soviet Premier who promised to defend Cuba with Soviet arms.

Question 12

Berlin Wall a concrete wall topped with barbed wire that severed the city in two

Question 13

hot line 1963

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there will be a phone line between the White House and Kremlin

Question 14

Limited Test Ban Treaty– that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere

Question 15

New Frontier– Kennedy’s vision progress

Question 16

Mandate a clear indication that voters approved of his plans.

Question 17

Peace Corps a program of volunteer assistance to the developing nations of Asia

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Africa

Question 18

Alliance for Progress offered ecomic and technical assistance to Latin American countries.

Question 19

NASA had begun to construct new launch facilities at Cape Canaveral

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Florida

Question 20

Neil Armstrong uly 20

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1969

Question 21

Michael Harrington In 1962

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the problem of poverty in America was brouht to national attention in MH book The Other America

Question 22

Lee Harvey Oswald Charged with murder

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his palm print had been found on the rifle used to kill John F Kennedy.

Question 23

Jack Ruby broke through the crowd and shot and killed Oswald.

Question 24

Warren Commission 1963

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investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president while acting on his own.

Question 25

Lyndon Baines Johnson succeed to the presidency

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his ambition and drive had become legendary

Question 26

Civil Rights Act of 1957 a voting rights measure that was the first civil rights legislation since Reonstruction.

Question 27

Economic Opportunity Act August 1964 approving nearly $1 billion for yoth programs

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antipoverty measures

Question 28

Barry Goldwater 1964

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the Republicans nominated conservative senator BG of Arizona to oppose Johnson.

Question 29

Great Society May 1964

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Johnson had summed up his vision for America in a phrase

Question 30

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 provided more than $1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools purchase textbooks and new library materials.

Question 31

Medicare and Medicaid provided hospital insurance and low–cost medical insurance for almost every American age 65 or older. Medicaid extended health insurance to welfare recipients.

Question 32

HUD appropriating money to build some 240

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000 units of low–rent public housing and help low– and moderate–income families pay for better private housing; establishing the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and appointing Robert Weaver

Question 33

Immigration Act of 1965 opened the door for many non–European immigrants to settle in the United States by ending quotas based on nationality.

Question 34

Rachel Carson– !962

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Silent Spring a book by RC about the hidden danger of pesticides on the environment.

Question 35

Ralph Nader a young lawyer wrote a book called Unsafe at Any Speed that criticized the US automobile industry for ignoring safety concerns.

Question 36

The Warren Court Banned prayer in public schools and declared state–required loyalty oaths unconstitutional.

Question 37

Reapportionment the way in which states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them.

Question 38

Gideon v. Wainwright– (1963) the justices required criminal courts to provide free legal consel to those who could afford it.

Question 39

Miranda v. Arizona 1966

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the Court ruled that all aspects must be read their rights before questioning.