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.