History. Eisenhower,FDR,Johnson Flashcards
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| 64410593 | Where did republicans claim JFK's election was stolen from? | Texas | 64410593 | |
| 64410594 | "The torch being passed to a new generation" | JFK | 64410594 | |
| 64410595 | New Frontier Program | called for more education, federal healthcare, civil rights, most were not passed until LBJ | 64410595 | |
| 64410596 | Economy during JFK's presidency | remained good due to spending on military and space | 64410596 | |
| 64410597 | Peace Corps | Recruited young american volunteers to give technical aid to developing countries | 64410597 | |
| 64410598 | Bay of Pigs | United States trained Cuban insurgents to overthrow Castro. Failed miserably and Castro used as publicity | 64410598 | |
| 64410599 | Berlin Wall | 1961. Khruschchev wanted US out of berlin. Was torn down in 1989 | 64410599 | |
| 64410600 | What is a hot line? | a means of communication set up between dc and moscow. | 64410600 | |
| 64410601 | Nuclear test ban treaty | 1963. End of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere | 64410601 | |
| 64410602 | Lee Harvy Oswald | Assassin | 64410602 | |
| 64410603 | Jack Ruby | Shot Lee Harvy Oswald | 64410603 | |
| 64410604 | Warren Commission | Investigated the assassination and stated no one helped Oswald. Earl Warren. | 64410604 | |
| 64410605 | The Great Society | What LBJ wanted to create with his policies | 64410605 | |
| 64410606 | The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 | Authorized 1 billion for war on poverty. Created the job corps. | 64410606 | |
| 64410607 | Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 | Set aside 1 billion for aid to the poverty-stricken Appalachian Mountain Regions | 64410607 | |
| 64410608 | Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 | Provided extensive financial Aid to public and parochial schools | 64410608 | |
| 64410609 | Medicare Act of 1965 | Provided nursing and hospital care, funded by Social Security, to the elderly. Medicade | 64410609 | |
| 64410610 | Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | Secretary's position held by Robery Weaver, nation's first black cabinet member | 64410610 | |
| 64410611 | Department of Transportation | Coordinates national transportation policy | 64410611 | |
| 64410612 | 24th Amendment 1964 | Prohibited the use of a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting | 64410612 | |
| 64410613 | 25th Amendment 1967 | provided for the Vice-President to assume the duties of the president if the chief executive is incapacitated | 64410613 | |
| 64410614 | Civil Rights act of 1964 | Withheld federal funding to states that did not comply with federal laws regarding voting rights, education and public facilities | 64410614 | |
| 64410615 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Forbade literacy tests under certain circumstances and authorized the president to enforce the 15th amendment | 64410615 | |
| 64410616 | Black Panther Leaders | Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, and Eldrige Cleaver | 64410616 | |
| 64410617 | Ceaser Chavez | Organized Mexican Farm workers to revolt | 64410617 | |
| 64410618 | 38th Parallel | Korea was divided here | 64410618 | |
| 64410619 | Policy of Containment | Truman asked congress to intervene in order to stop communism in korea | 64410619 | |
| 64410620 | General Macarthur | general who fought in the korean war. | 64410620 | |
| 64410621 | 1952 | when south korea recaptured seoul. | 64410621 | |
| 64410622 | Kim Il Sung | North Korean Dictator | 64410622 | |
| 64410623 | Checker's Speech | Speech where nixon gained the trust of the nation | 64410623 | |
| 64410624 | Department of health, education and welfare | Eisenhower created this in 1953 | 64410624 | |
| 64410625 | Highway act of 1956 | Authorized construction of 42,000 miles of interstate highway. | 64410625 | |
| 64410626 | John Foster Dulles | sec of state who thought truman's policies were too soft. he wanted to liberate the "captive nations" | 64410626 | |
| 64410627 | "Brinksmanship" | belief that communists would not actually go to war if provoked | 64410627 | |
| 64410628 | Geneva Conference | france fave up claims to Indochina. Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel | 64410628 | |
| 64410629 | Domino Theory | Eisenhower said if south vietnam fell to communism so would the rest of the nations. "Containment theory" | 64410629 | |
| 64410630 | SEATO | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization | 64410630 | |
| 64410631 | Eisenhower Doctrine | Us replaced GB and France. First appeared in Lebanon when Eisenhower sen 14,000 troops | 64410631 | |
| 64410632 | OPEC | formed in 1960 between saudi arabia, kuwait, iraq, and venezuela | 64410632 | |
| 64410633 | Hungarian Revolt | test to see if the US would respond to Soviet Actions | 64410633 | |
| 64410634 | U-2 Incident | Russia Shot down a US spy plane flying over soviet territory. | 64410634 | |
| 64410635 | Gary Powers | Piolet of U-2 spy plane | 64410635 | |
| 64410636 | Very Negative | what were eisenhower's views about the cold war? | 64410636 | |
| 64410637 | Beatnik | Jack Kerouac (On The Road). Model for the Hippies. | 64410637 | |
| 64410638 | Communist control act | took away the rights, privileges and immunities of Communist Party and allowed for penalizing of Communists | 64410638 | |
| 64410639 | Oppenheimer Case | Oppenheimer suspended by Atomic Energy Commission as suspected security risk. near 6000 people left. | 64410639 | |
| 64410640 | Korean Armistice | Death of Stalin and relaxed international situation | 64410640 | |
| 64410641 | Atomic Energy Act | Private Power companies allowed to own reactors for production of electric power, to own nuclear materials, and to patent own atomic inventions | 64410641 | |
| 64410642 | Alaska and Hawaii become states | 1959 | 64410642 | |
| 64410643 | Greensboro Sit-In | thousands of people sat a "whites only" lunch counter | 64410643 |