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17 Cards in this Set
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What was the industry that provoked a bitter conflict with President Kennedy over price increases?
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The steel industry
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What did the fundamental military doctrine of the Kennedy administration involve?
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A focus on a "flexible response" to "brushfire wars" the Thrird World.
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When did the Cuban missile crisis end?
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When the Soviets agreed to pull all missiles out of Cuba & the U.S. agreed not to invade Cuba.
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How did the Kennedy administration push into a stronger stand on civil rights?
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Through the civil rights movement being led by the Freedom Riders and Martin Luther King., Jr.
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Why was President Johnson more successful in pushing economic & civil rights measures through Congress than President Kennedy?
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The Democrats gained overwhelming control of Congress in the landslide of 1964.
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What was the Civil Rights Act of 1965 designed to guarantee?
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Voting Rights of African-Americans.
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What did the escalation of the aerial bombardment in Vietnam do?
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Strengthened the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese will to resist.
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What did the opposition to the Vietnam War in Congress centered in [on]?
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Who were the aniwar presidential candidates whose political showing forced Johnson to withdraw from the race?
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Eugene McCarthy & Robert Kennedy.
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Why was Vietnam not a major issue in the presidential election of 1968?
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Nixon enjoyed overwhelming popular support for his position on the war.
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Peace Corp
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Kennedy administration program that sent youthful American volunteers to work in underdeveloped countries.
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Berlin Wall
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High barrier b/w East & West erected during the 1961 Berlin Crisis.
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Green Berets
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Elite antiguerrilla military units expanded by Kennedy as part of his doctrine of "flexible response"
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Alliance of Progress
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An attempt to provide American aid for democratic reform in Latin America that met with much disappointment & frustration.
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Bay of Pigs
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Site where anti-Castro guerilla forces failed in their U.S.-sponsored invasion.
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Cuban Missille Crisis
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Tense confrontation b/w Kennedy & Khrushchev that nearly led to nuclear war in October 1962.
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Sit-in
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New civil rights technique developed in the 1960s to desegregate lunch counters and other public facilities in the South.
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