flexible response
"military-industrial complex"
New Frontier
Ask not what your country can do for
you--ask what you can do for your
country!
Camelot
Robert F. Kennedy [Attorney General]
Peace Corps
November 22, 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
Texas School Book Depository
Warren Commission
Lyndon Baines Johnson [LBJ]
"War on Poverty"
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Economic Opportunity Act [1965]
Job Corps
VISTA [Volunteers in Service To
America]
Project Head Start
Senator Barry Goldwater [AZ]
Rachel Carson
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Warren Court
Water Quality Act [1965]
Silent Spring
Great Society
Elementary & Secondary Education
Act [1965]
Medicare
Medicaid
Immigration Act of 1965
Gideon v. Wainwright [1963]
Miranda v. AZ [1966]
"Miranda Rights"
Guiding Questions
1. What were some of John F. Kennedy's personal assets as a presidential candidate? What obstacles did he face?
2. How did television play a key role in Kennedy's election victory in 1960?
3. What was the goal of the doctrine of "flexible response?"
4. What did President Eisenhower mean when he warned Americans about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex?"
5. What kind of tone did President Kennedy set in his inaugural address when he said: Ask
not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country?
6. Why was the Kennedy administration nicknamed "Camelot"?
7. Why did President Kennedy have difficulty fulfilling many of his New Frontier proposals?
8. What was the official outcome of the Warren Commission investigation into President
Kennedy's assassination?
9. What in Lyndon Johnson's background prepared him to become president?
10. What problems in American society did the Economic Opportunity Act seek to address?
11. Why did President Johnson win such a huge landslide victory in 1964?
12. Describe ways that Great Society programs addressed the problem of poverty?
13. How does the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 still affect you today?
14. Look at the CHART of Great Society programs on page 847. What did these programs indicate about the federal government's changing role?
15.
What are your "Miranda Rights"?