Ch. 19The Kennedy and Johnson Years
US History
Mr. Hawkins
Musical Chairs
• Class is set up for musical chairs• Students “walk” around chairs while music is
playing, when music stops playing, students must attempt to sit down in one of the desks.
• The student who does not get a seat may now challenge any student to a review question.
• The student who answers correctly remains in the game while the student who does not is out.
• The final student left at the end of the game will receive 10 bonus points towards their test.
• physical manifestation of Germany’s political division
• Berlin Wall
• military strategy relying on both traditional and specialized units
• flexible response
• revolutionary leader who instituted a communist regime in Cuba
• Fidel Castro
• President Kennedy’s vision for America
• New Frontier
• program to provide basic health care to poor and disabled Americans
• Medicaid
• President Johnson’s social welfare plan
• Great Society
• group that investigated Kennedy’s assassination
• Warren Commission
• During the Boston Tea Party, the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor to
• protest the tax on tea.
• legislation that banned discrimination based on race or sex
• Civil Rights Act
• strategy used by President Kennedy to improve the economy
• deficit spending
• John F. Kennedy’s opponent in 1960
• Richard M. Nixon
• The Alliance for Progress provided what kind of assistance to Latin American countries?
• economic
• As the result of the Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev
• lost political support.
• As a result of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,
• nearly forty countries ended aboveground nuclear tests.
• What did President Kennedy’s domestic agenda primarily fight?
• poverty
• What was a result of the Equal Pay Act?
• Employment practices became fairer.
• The Warren Commission concluded that
• Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Kennedy’s assassination.
• From his time in Congress, Johnson was known for his skills in
• compromise.
• Why was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 necessary?
• Existing American immigration policies were discriminatory.