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31 Cards in this Set
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John F. Kennedy
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Senator of massachusetts
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Lyndon B. johnson
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Texas senator vice president candidate
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Flexible response
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To have a number of options in case of international crisies
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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 countries
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Fidel Castro
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Led an uprising that succeeded in overthrowing the Cuban dictator
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Berlin Wall
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Most widely recognized symbol of the Cold War
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Cuban missile crisis
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A historical turning point in US Soviet relations
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Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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End of testing of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere and underwater
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Hot line
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Teletype line enabled the leaders of the two countries to communicate directly during a crisis
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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President's attractive young wife
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Donna Shalala
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One of the many Americans motivated to action
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Robert Kennedy
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Kennedy's younger brother
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New Frontier
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JFK's agenda
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Area Redevelopment Act
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A bill to provide finically 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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Assassinate JFK
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Warren Commission
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Spent 10 months reviewing the evidence
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War on Poverty
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Unconditional war on poverty in America
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Office of Economic Opportunity
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Coordinated a series of new anti poverty 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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Great Society
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Johnson's domestic reform program
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Barry Goldwater
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A conservative from Arizona
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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 Act
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Provided $1.3 billion in aid to schools in poor area
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Robert C. weaver
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The first african american member of the 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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Marine biologist
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Earl Warren
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Chief justice
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Reynolds v. Sms
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Court extended equality in the voting booth by affirming the one person, one vote principle
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