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John F. Kennedy
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Democratic candidate who was charming, witty, and had good looks. He was elected in 1960 at age 43, the youngest president to date.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Kennedy's running mate as president.
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flexible response
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The option of having numerous responses to an attack.
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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 of aid to participating Latin American countries.
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Fidel Castro
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Established a communist-style government in Cuba with ties to the Soviet Union.
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Berlin Wall
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Wall prevent people in East Germany to leave to West Germany through Berlin.
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Cuban missile crisis
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Russia had missile bases set up in Cuba, and we were set to destroy them until Khrushchev agreed to disband the bases as long as the US did not invade Cuba.
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Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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Ended the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere and underwater.
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hot line
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A teletype line that enabled the leaders of the two countries to communicate directly during a crisis.
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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First lady to JFK, many Americans admired her.
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Donna Shalala
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Served as secretary of health and human services under Bill Clinton, and took advantage of Kennedy's vision to call young Americans to action.
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Robert Kennedy
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Attorney general under JFK.
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New Frontier
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JFK's agenda during his presidency.
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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, a well-documented study of poverty in the United States.
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Main suspect in the shooting of JFK.
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Warren Commission
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Spent ten months reviewing the Kennedy assassination and declared that both Oswald and Ruby had acted alone.
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War on Poverty
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The implementation of antipoverty programs.
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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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Great Society
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Johnson's domestic reform program.
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Barry Goldwater
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Republican candidate in the 1964 election.
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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 healthcare 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 areas.
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Robert C. Weaver
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Headed the HUD, which oversaw federal housing programs.
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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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Contributed to the environmental movement.
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Earl Warren
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Chief Justice who helped to further define and extend individual rights.
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Reynolds vs. Sims
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Extended equality in the voting booth by affirming the one person one vote rule.
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