Homework 32 - Chapter 28: The New Frontier and the Great Society
Read pages 874 to 903. Answer the questions.
Section 1: Kennedy and the Cold War
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What was inspiring about President Kennedy’s inaugural address?
Who were the candidates in the election of 1960?
What role did TV play in the presidential debates?
How many Americans were watching?
Who was the clear winner?
What steps did JFK take when Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested?
Why was the black vote helpful for JFK?
Why did Kennedy years get the nickname of Camelot?
Who were the “best and the brightest” and how did they help JFK?
What is flexible response?
What warning did President Eisenhower give before leaving office?
Do you think he was right or wrong?
Why or why not?
How did massive spending on defense help the economy?
Who was Fidel Castro?
Why were we suspicious of Castro?
Where did 10 percent of Cuba’s population move to?
What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
How did this damage JFK?
What steps did he take to make things right?
What did the Soviets do in Cuba in 1962?
How did the US find out about this?
What steps did JFK and Khrushchev take over 6 days in October to avoid war?
How did the Cuban Missile Crisis damage the US and the Soviets?
What is the Berlin Wall?
Why was it built in 1961?
How did it become a great symbol of the Cold War?
How did Kennedy’s Berlin Wall speech transform a defeat into success?
What is the hot line?
What is the Limited Test Ban Treaty?
Section 2: The New Frontier
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Who was on board Freedom7?
What did he think of his space shot?
What is Kennedy’s New Frontier?
Why did JFK have trouble making the New Frontier a reality?
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Why did JFK lack a popular mandate?
What is a recession?
What steps did JFK take to revive the economy?
Did it work?
What is the Peace Corps?
In what way is this the greatest JFK legacy?
How did the Alliance For Progress help Latin America?
What new agency was created to make sure America won the space race?
What bold challenge did JFK issue in the space race?
When did that challenge get answered?
How many Americans lived on less than a thousand dollars a year?
What happened in Dallas?
When was this?
Who was the shooter?
What happened to the shooter?
What was done to find answers to unanswered questions about JFK’s death?
What did they conclude?
Section 3: The Great Society
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How did the Great Society help Larry Alfred?
Who was the next President after JFK?
How did Johnson soar to great power in Washington as a politician?
What made LBJ the master politician?
What advantages did LBJ have that made him perhaps a stronger president than JFK?
How did the 10 billion dollar tax cut bill help America?
What was the War on Poverty?
What programs were created to fight poverty?
Who challenged LBJ in the election of 1964?
Why did LBJ win in a landslide?
What was the Great Society?
How many great society bills did Congress pass?
What improvements did LBJ make for education?
What is Medicare?
What is Medicaid?
What is HUD and how did they help the poor?
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
Who wrote the book Silent Spring?
What changes did this book inspire?
Who was Ralph Nader?
How did he fight for consumers?
Who was Chief Justice Earl Warren?
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What did the Warren Court do for reapportionment?
What did the case Gideon v. Wainwright decide?
Why is the case Miranda v. Arizona critical to protection from the police?
What were the major benefits of the Great Society?
What were the major drawbacks of the Great Society?
What did America discover about itself during the years of the Great Society?