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30 Cards in this Set
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John F.Kennedy
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Democratic candidate
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Failed in his own attempt to obtain the Democratic nomination
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Flexible response
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Number of options in case of international crises
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Peace corps
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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 contries
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Fidel Castro
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Led an uprising that succeeded in overthrowing the Cuban dictator
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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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End the testing of nuclear bomb in the atmosphere and underwater
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Hot line
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Set up between the United States and solviet union
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Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Contributed to the glamour and mystique that surrounded the Kennedy White House
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Berlin Wall
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Became the most widely recognized symbol of the Cold War
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Donna shalala
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Served as secretary of health and human services in the administration of president bill Clinton
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Robert Kennedy
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Kennedy selected his younger brother as attorney general
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New frontier
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This became Kennedy's 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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Published the other America
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Arrested as a suspect after the shooting
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Warren commission
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Spent over 10 months reviewing the evidence
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War on poverty
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The president declared "unconditional war on poverty in America"
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Office of economic opportunity
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Coordinated a series of new antipoverty programs
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Volunteers in service to America
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A domestic version of the peace corps
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Barry Goldwater
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A conservative from Arizona as their presidential nominee
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Medicare
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A national health insurance program for people over age 65
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Medicaid
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A government program that provides free health care to the needy
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Elementary and secondary education art
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Provided $1.3 billion in aids to schools in poor areas
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Robert C. weaver
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First African American member of a presidential cabinet
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Corporation for public broadcasting
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A nonprofit organization dedicated to offering educational television programming
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Rachel Carson
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Earl warren
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Reynolds v. Sims
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