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29 Cards in this Set
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John f. Kennedy
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President
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Lyndon b Johnson
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Failed his own attempt to obtain the democratic nomination
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Flexible response
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Was a strategy
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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 filgenicio batista
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Berlin Wall
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Became the most widely recognized symbol of the Cold War
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Cuban missile crisis
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Marked a historic turning point in us soviet relations
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Limited nuclear test ban treaty
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To end the testing of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere and underwater
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Hot line
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Was also set up between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Jaqueline kennedy
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contributed to the glamour and mystique that surrounded the kennedy white house
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Donna shalala
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Kenedys vision
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Robert Kennedy
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Selected his younger brother
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New frontier
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Had been spoken during the presidential compaign
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Area redevelopment act
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A bill to provide financial assistance to economically distressed regions
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Michael Harrington
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Published the other America a well known doc study of poverty in the united states
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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A suspect
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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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Sent by johnson
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Office of economic opportunity
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Congress bill calling for the creation
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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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Domestic reform program
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Barry Goldwater
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Na conservative from arizona
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Medicare
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A national health insurance program
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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
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Congress responded by passing
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Roberto sea ver
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Headed this new department
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Corporation for public broadcasting
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A nonprofit organization
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Rachel Carson
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On tributes to this environmental movement
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