Chapter 20 Vocabulary

Chapter 20 Vocabulary 1. John F. Kennedy 2. Fidel Castro 3. Berlin Wall 4. hot line 5. New Frontier 6. Peace Corps 7. Warren Commission 8. Great Society 9. Medicare 10. Medicaid 11. Flexible response 12. Bay of Pigs 13. Cuban Missile Crisis 14. Limited Test Ban Treaty 15. Mandate 16. Alliance for Progress 17. Lyndon Johnson 18. Warren Court Decisions

Chapter 20 Objectives

1. Identify the factors that contributed to Kennedy’s election in 1960. Describe the new military policy of the Kennedy administration 2. Summarize the New Frontier domestic and foreign agendas 3. Describe the tragic chain of events surrounding Kennedy’s assassination. Include the Warren Commission and conspiracy theory

4. Summarize the goals of Johnson’s Great Society. Evaluate the impact of Great Society programs

Final Exam Review Questions Ch 20: 1960s: The New Frontier and The Great Society

56. Explain the purpose of the Immigration Act of 1965?

57. What was the official finding determined by the Warren Commission?

58. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? How was it resolved?

59. Who built the Berlin Wall, and what was its purpose? 60. How did the US respond to the Soviet’s successful effort at sending a human to space?

61. What was JFK’s ‘flexible response policy’ and how does it relate to the Vietnam conflict? How was this different than President Eisenhower’s policy?

62. LBJ had an ambitious New Deal style program called the Great Society. What is the essential piece of any ambitious government welfare program? Which group benefited most from the Great Society?

63. Why was TV important to JFK in the 1960 election?

64. What were some of JFK’s major New Frontier initiatives? What did JFK not do when it came to his programs?

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