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14 Cards in this Set
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JFK
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one of the candidate running for office along with nixon JFK won
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missle gap
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in which the US layged behind the Soviets in weaponry
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New Frontier
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President Kennedy set out to implement a new legislative wanted to aid education,provide health insurance to elderly,help migration workers
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Eorl Warren
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chief justice of US supreme Court
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Gideon v Wainwright
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1963, the court ruled that a defendant in a state court has the right to a lawyer. regardless of their ability to pay for one
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Mirande v Arizona
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the right to remain silent ; that anything they say can and will be used against them in the court of law that they have the court will appoint one if they cannot afford one
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Flexible response
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if nations needed help against communist movements , the president. pushed for a build up or conventional weapons and troops
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Fidel Castro
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had overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959
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Bay of pigs
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South Cost of Cuba
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Berlin Wall
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Blocked. movement between the Soviet sector and the rest of the city
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Cuban Missle
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American spy planes took photos of Soviet long rang missle in cuban and demanded they be dismarked (JKF announced on TV)
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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shot president JKF arrested and shot by Jack Ruby
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The Great Society
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Johnson's promised vision of a more perfect american society. Programs passed among Medicare and Medicaid
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Barry Goldwater
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Johnson's republican opponent in 1964 election known for his out spoken conservation (when by land slide)
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