JFK Quiz

Bay of Pigs

• JFKs first major foreign policy issue

• Was intended to overthrow Fidel Castro

• Eisenhower approved CIA training Cuban exiles

Berlin Wall

• Right after Bay of Pigs

• JFK and Khrushchev meet in Berlin and discuss German refugees escaping to west Berlin

• JFK promises continued support

• Khrushchev orders wall to be built

Fidel Castro

Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba.

Richard Nixon

• Republican politician from california

• Opposed JFK in run for president

• Pushed for strong political and economic conservatism (small gov., morality, tax cuts, anti-communism)

• McCarthy’s right hand man during HUAC trials

• Ike’s Vice President

• “Old Guard” conservative republican

Nikita Khrushchev

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unuion.

Cuban Missile Crisis

• American spy plane discovers missile launching sites in Cuba

• Khrushchev offered nuclear missiles to force JFKs concessions in Berlin

• 13 day stare down

Limited Test Ban Treaty

Prohibits nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, outerspace, and underwater

New Frontier

Domestic Programs:

• education

• welfare

• healthcare

• elderly assistance

• inner-cities

• continue FDR social action

Peace Corps

• JFK call for American international volunteerism

• spend 2 years developing nations, specialize in education and others

• promote democracy and american influence

Alliance for Progress

• JFK pledge of support for Latin America

• money to support international improvements, supported education, built hospitals, helped distribute land

• pro - helped some | con - much abuse and corruption

Warren Commission

• Chief Justice Earl Warren starts federal investigation on assassination

• Goal was to prevent speculation about conspiracy following JFK death

• LBJ immediately becomes president

• Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

Baker v. Carr

Change voting laws, reapportion election to be based on population

Civil Rights Act

banned discrimination of any kind

Immigration Act of 1965

shifted the focus of immigration policy towards family reunification and skalls-based preferences

Miranda v. Arizona

the right to remain silent, anything said can be used in a court of law, right to lawyer

Economic Opportunity Act

coordinated economic recovery

Brown v. Board of Ed

segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, overturned “separate but equal”

Great Society

• LBJ political experience helped push many bills through congress

• firmly committed to social action

• declared a “war on poverty”

  • economic opportunities act

  • neighborhood youth corp

  • job corps

  • VISTA (volunteer service to america)

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

designed to equalize educational opportunities for all children by directing federal funding to schools with high percentage of disadvantaged students