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17 Cards in this Set
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John F. Kennedy
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Democratic candidate in the 1960 election who won
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Nixon's choice as vice president in the 1960 election
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Flexible responce
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strategy adopted by Kennedy adminstrain of keeping range or option
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Peace Corps
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Program begun by president Kennedy to send volunteers to work in developing
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Alliance for Progress
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President Kennedy's program for sending economic aid to Latin America
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Fiel Castro
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A rebel Leader who led an uprising that secceeded in overthrowing the cuban dictator in 1959
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Berlin Wall
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barrier built between East and West Berlin; widely recognized symbol of the cold war
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Cuban missle crisis
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Standoff between the US and the Soviet Union in which the soviets agreed to remove missiles from cuba
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Hot Line
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Teletype connection between the Us and the Soviet Union that allowed leaders to comminicate directly a crisis
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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President Kennedy's wife who contributed to the glamour and mystique that surrounded the kennedy white house and very admired
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Donna Shalala
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Inspired by Jacqueline Kennedy, she joined the Peace Corps and she claimed it changed her
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Robert Kennedy
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President Kennedy's younger brother who became attorney gerneral
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New Frontier
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President Kennedy domestic agenda
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Area Redevelopment Act
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Law passed in 1961 that provided financial assistance to economically distressed regions
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Michael Harrington
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A social activist who published a well-documented study of poverty in the US that became popular
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Shot President Kennedy in 1963
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Warren Commission
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Special group led by chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate
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