LBJ and JFK

U.S. History 2

the “Irish Mafia”

Kennedy’s advisors were called…

Flexible Response 

Kennedy’s military foreign policy program.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion   

Failed invasion to overthrow Castro on 1961.

Nikita Khrushchev

He was removed from power after the Cuban Missile Crisis

the New Frontier 

Kennedy’s domestic programs were called

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

First man in space.

The Peace Corps

Kennedy’s new program for volunteers to help in under-developed countries.

Lee Harvey Oswald

Kennedy’s assassin

Jack Ruby (Jacob Leon Rubenstein)

The assassin’s assassin.

Earl Warren

He led the commission that investigated the Kennedy Assassination.

The Great Society 

Johnson’s domestic policy.

Medicare and Medicaid Act

Laws that provide medical benefits to the elderly and the poor.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Law that outlawed discrimination in public places.

Silent Spring

Book that warned of the dangers of pesticides

Ralph Nader

He wrote Unsafe At Any Speed and later ran for president.

Chimel vs. California

Supreme Court case that protects against searches at the time of arrest.

Miranda vs. Arizona

Case that makes police officers read rights at the time of arrest.

Chief Justice Warren

Supreme Court Chief Justice for all the cases listed above.

Barry Goldwater

Johnson defeated what Republican candidate in 1964.

Sam Rayburn

Lyndon Johnson’s political role model was…