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29 Cards in this Set
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John F. Kennedy
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Winner of the 1960 election
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Kennedy's Vice President
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Flexible response
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Kennedy's foreign policy which includes multiple options
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Peace corps
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Sent American volunteers to work in developing countries
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Alliance for progress
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Program to expand economic aid in Latin America
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Fidel Castro
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Leader who overthrew the old regime in Cuba
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Limited nuclear test ban
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Ended atmospheric nuclear testing
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Hot line
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Direct line of communications between the US and the Soviet Union
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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President Kennedy's wife
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Donna shalala
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Clinton's secretary of health and human services
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Robert Kennedy
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Kennedy's attorney general
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New frontier
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Kennedy's agenda
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Area redevelopment act
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Bill that provided financial aid to economically stressed regions
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Michael Harrington
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Author who published "The other America"
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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The gunman who was thought to have shot Kennedy
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Warren commission
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Investigated Kennedy's assassination
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War on poverty
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Johnson's campaign to help the poor
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Office of economic opportunity
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Coordinated a series of anti poverty programs
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Volunteers in service to America
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Domestic version of the peace corps
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Great society
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Johnson's reform program
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Barry Goldwater
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Republican nominee
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Medicare
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National health insurance program
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Medicaid
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Government program similar to Medicare
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Elementary and secondary education act
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Provided aid to schools in poor areas
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Robert weaver
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Headed the HUD
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Corporation for public broadcasting
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Offered educational programming
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Rachel Carson
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Marine biologist who contributed to the environmental movement
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Earl warren
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Chief Justice
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Reynolds v. Sims
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Case that caused improvements in equality
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