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18 Cards in this Set
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The nominees for president of the 1960 election
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Kennedy and Nixon
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What event contributed to Khrushchev's fall from power?
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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What Great society program is considered to be an entitlement?
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Medicare
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What one of Kennedy's legislative initiatives did they agree to pass?
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raise minimum wage
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During the 1960 election campaign, television aired its first _____.
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presidential debate
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What was the special olympics? Who set it up?
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Camp Shriver - offered people with disabilities a chance to be physically competitive / Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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What was the Warren Commission?
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investigated theories about the assassination of president kennedy
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Neil Armstrong? John Glenn? Yari Gagarin?
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first human being to walk on the moon / first American to orbit the Earth / first person to orbit the Earth - Soviet
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Who wrote The Other America and what was it about?
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Michael Harrington / the nation's impoverished areas; 50 million truly poor people lived in Appalachia, the Deep South, and Native American reservations
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14th Amendment?
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"no state shall... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."
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What is deficit spending and who used it as president?
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spending more money than you are bringing in / Kennedy
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What did Kennedy do to calm the concerns of Protestants during the campaign?
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confronted them with a speech ; "I believe in an America where the separation of the church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president how to act."
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What did one man one vote mean?
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makes all votes have equal weight
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Why was Kennedy unable to pass many of his domestic programs?
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the southern democrats thought it was too expensive
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what did kennedy's flexible response plan call for?
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a build up of troops and conventional weapons
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What were Kennedy's and Johnson's legislative agendas called?
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New Frontier
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Why did Kennedy cancel air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion?
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to keep the United states involvement a secret
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To get the economy moving Kennedy pushed for what?
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a cut in tax rates
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