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18 Cards in this Set
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John F. Kennedy?
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Emerged as a Democratic candidate.
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Lyndon B. Johnson?
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A Texas senator that Kennedy selected.
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Flexible response?
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Strategy adopted by the Kennedy administration of keeping a range of options open for dealing with international crises.
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Peace Corps?
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A program, which sent American volunteers to work for two years in developing countries.
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Alliance for Progress?
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Offered billions of dollars in aid to participating countries.
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Fidel Castro?
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A 1959 rebel leader, that led an uprising that succeeded in overthrowing the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista.
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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 missile crisis?
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marked a historic turning point in U.S.-Soviet relations.
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Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
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The United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, signed this to end the testing of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere and underwater.
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Hot line?
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A teletype line enabled so that the United States and the Soviet Union could communicate directly during a crisis.
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Jacqueline Kennedy?
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President Kennedy's attractive young wife, an inspiration to people across the world.
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Donna Shalala?
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One of the many Americans motivated to action by Kennedy's vision.
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Robert Kennedy?
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Kennedy picked his younger brother for the position of attorney general.
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New Frontier?
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President John F. Kennedy's domestic agenda.
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Area Redevelopment Act?
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A bill to provide financial assistance to economically distressed regions that former president Eisenhower had previously vetoed.
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Michael Harrington?
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A social activist that published The Other America, a well-documented study of poverty in the United States.
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Lee Harvey Oswald?
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Someone suspected of shooting John F. Kennedy.
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Warren Commission?
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Special group led by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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