Quiz 3 Flashcards
On October 22, Kennedy announced that the Soviet Union had placed a long- range nuclear missiles in ______________.
Cuba
JFK warned that if attacked, the US would respond fully against the ______________.
Soviet Union
The _______________ forced the US and the SU to consider the consequences of nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
August 1963, the two countries agrees to a treaty that banned testing ____________________.
nuclear weapons in the atmosphere
The crisis exposed the Soviet’s military inferiority and promoted a dramatic ________________, which the US matched.
Soviet arms Buildup
On ________________ Kennedy and his wife travel to Texas.
November 22 1963
As the presidential motorcade rode slowly through the crowded streets of __________, gunfire rang out
Dallas
__________________ the man accused of Killing JFK appeared to be a confused and embittered Marxist who had spent time in the SU.
Lee Harvy Oswald
Local nightclub owner ____________ killed Oswald to protect others involved in the crim.
Jack Ruby
In 1964 a national commission headed by ________________ concluded that Oswald was the lown assassin.
Cheif Justice Warren
The reported of the _______________ left some questions unanswered.
Warren Commission
Kennedy’s successor _______________ set out to promote many of the programs that Kennedy left unfinished.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
____________ was born and raised in the “hill country” of central Texas
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Johnson knew about hard times in his brief career as a _________________ in a low-income area.
teacher
By summer 1964, Johnson had convinced Congress to pass the _________________, which acttacked inadequate public services, illiteracy, and unemployment.
Economic Oppertunity Act.
___________________ provided work-study programs to help the under privileged earn a high school diploma or college degree.
The Neighboorhood Youth Corps
________was created to offer tutoring to high school students
Upward Bound
The Republic candidate in 1964 was ________________ from Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater was known for his ___________________.
strong conservatism
On election day Johnson won in a lanslide saining more than ___________ of the popular vote and winning all but 6 states in the Electoral College.
61%
After his election LBJ began to working with Congress on his legislative agenda known as the ______________.
Great Society`
___________ had won strong support because it was offered to all senior citizens about half of whom laked health insurence.
Medicare
___________________ financed health care for welfare recipients living below the poverty line.
Medicaid
______________ was created for disadvantaged children who had “never looked at a picture book or scribbled with a crayon”
Project Head Start
