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New Frontier and Great Society
Chapters 30 and 31
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History
11th Grade
04/14/2009

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Fidel Castro
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Overthrew Batiste, and created a communist government in Cuba
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Peace Corps
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Americans volunteered for two years in developing countries
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22nd
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This amendment limited a president's time in office to two elected terms
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Attorney General
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President Kennedy chose his brother Robert to serve in his cabinet as this.
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John F. Kennedy
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First Catholic, and youngest president ever elected.
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Financial assistance
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The Area Redevelopment Act provided this to poorer regions of the country
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Underwater and in the atmosphere 
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The Limited Test Ban Treaty, signed by the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, stopped the testing of nuclear bombs here
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Lyndon Johnson
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As a senator from Texas, he was very good at manipulating the senate to get his legislation passed
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Richard Nixon
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His physical appearance in the first televised presidential debate cost him the debate, and many say, the presidency 
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Flexible Response
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Kennedy's foreign policy to have a n umber of different ways to solve an international crisis
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Developing Nations
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Kennedy believed by providing these with financial assistance, they became dependent on the U.S., and stayed away from Soviet influences 
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African Countries
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After many of these gained independence, Kennedy called for increased economic aid 
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Bay of Pigs
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Location of failed American-backed invasion attempting  to get Castro out of power in Cuba
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Nikita Khrushchev
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In June of 1961 he ordered the West to remove all troops from West Berlin
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Berlin Wall
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The semi-permanent and then permanent divider between East and West became known as this
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White House
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The first lady, Jackie Kennedy organized a major restoration of this
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War on Poverty
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This was the title for President Johnson's afforts to help the needy in the U.S.
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Medicaid
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This program tried to provide free health care to the poor in the U.S.
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Head Start
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This was an attempt to provide low-income families with a pre-school program to keep their kids from falling behind
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Artists, Writers, Scholars
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The National Endowment for the Arts and national Endowment for the Humanities provide grants and fellowships for these
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Kennedy's Cabinet
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Members of this were very young and inexperienced at a very difficult time in the world  
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New Frontier 
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Title for President Kennedy's political agenda
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Government Spending
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Kennedy called for this in an attempt to stimulate economic growth
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Congress
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Kennedy had a difficult relationship with this, failing to get many of his initiatives passed
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Salary
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Kennedy donated this to charity
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Dallas
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City where Kennedy was assassinated
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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He was suspected as the assassin of President Kennedy
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Minorities and Women
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President Johnson worked to gain these people jobs within the government
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Environment
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President Johnson pushed legislation to help clean this up
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Dominican Republic
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President Johnson sent troops here to put down what he thought was a communist revolution
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Great Society
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Title for Johnson's domestic policy
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Vice-president
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Before running against Kennedy in 1960, Richard Nixon served as this under Eisenhower
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Voting Rights Act
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Gave the federal government control of voter registration
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Voter Education Project
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Gove federal funds to private foundations that created voter registration programs
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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African-American organizations working to end discrimination in the U.S. united into this
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Young activists from the South who were working to end descrimination
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Nation of Islam
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Malcolm X became the leading spokesman and minister for this more radical 
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University of Mississippi
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James Meredith became the first African-American to graduate from here
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Freedom Summer
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This brought young white college students to the South to assist in the voter registration projects
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Freedom Riders 
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African-American and white activists that fought against the discrimination on interstate buses 
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Gave all Americans the right to be served in facilities open to the public 
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Elijah Muhammed
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Early leader of the Nation of Islam 
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White Racism 
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The Kerner Commission found that the race riots of 1965 and 1966 was caused by this
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Memphis
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated here on April 4th, 1968
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Miliken vs. Bradley
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This case banned Detroit's inner-city school districts from merging with the city's suburban districts
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Affirmative Action
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These types of programs give preference to ethnic minorities and women in admissions to schools and hiring.
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University of California vs. Bakke
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The courts in this case ruled a white man can not be unfairly denied admission to a medical school due to "reverse discrimination"
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Quota
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A fixed number of job or admission openings for a certain group of people
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Cleveland
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Carl Stokes was the first black to be elected mayor of this city
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National Black Political Convention
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This organization was created to allow African Americans to continue to gain influence in the political arena
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Nonviolent Resistance
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Martin Luther King. Jr.'s tactic, taken from Gandhi, which would not allow protesters to harm anyone, regardless of what happened to them
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Sit-ins
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Tactic used in an attempt to integrate lunch counters
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Brimingham
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Freedom Riders were viciously attacked here, and received no protection or assistance from the police
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His closest aides
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Even though they were opposed to it, President Kennedy called for the enactment of Civil Rights legislation
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Jobs
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One of the things African Americans were threatened with losing if they registered to vote
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Mississippi
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State where the first voter registration drive took place
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Resurrection City
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Part of the Poor People's Campaign, it closed a month after it was set up.
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Busing
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Most whites, north and south, were opposed to using this to integrate public schools 
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Laurie Prichett
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Albany's Chief of Police, he arrested protesters in his city
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Bull Conner
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Birmingham's volatile Chief of Police, who usaed dogs and fire hoses on protesters
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Violence
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The Southern Christian Leadership Council learned from Birmingham that progress comes only when racists react to their peaceful protests with this
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Media
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There was very little of this present during the Albany protest
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