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JFK Cold War Warren CtMisc. 60’sTrivia 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points LBJ
Term used to describe JFK’s administration.
What is Camelot?
This was the New Frontier according to JFK.
What is space?
Funded by JFK in a bold speech in 1961 that challenged the nation.
What is NASA and race to the moon?
A president’s clear support that aids in his legislative agenda being accomplished.
What is a mandate?
City in which JFK was assassinated.
What is Dallas, TX?
These people were used as soldiers to invade the Bahía de Cochinos.
What are Cuban exiles?
Leader of Cuba in 1960’s.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This attack ruined U.S. and Cuban relations.
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This stand off almost caused the first nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This action made it impossible for East Berliners to escape to West Berlin.
What is the formation of the Berlin Wall?
LBJ’s domestic reform of the mid 1960’s.
What is the Great Society?
Health insurance for citizens 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Created dozens of antipoverty programs.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
Health insurance for people with low- income.
What is Medicaid?
This legislation ended the use of ethnic quotas in the U.S.
What was the Immigration Act of 1965?
The right to remain silent…
What are Miranda Rights?
Assassinated JFK in 1963.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This form of communication was an attempt to clear any miscommunications between the US and USSR.
What is a hotline?
Group created to help developing countries.
What is the Peace Corps?
This man was also shot during the JFK assassination.
Who is Governor Connally?
This man was the first to ever walk on the moon.
Who is Neal Armstrong?
This astronaut was the second to explore the moon.
Who is “Buzz” Aldrin?
This theory explains how Oswald shot both men in the car with only 2 hits.
What is the single bullet theory?
This man was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the 1950s and 60s.
Who is Justice Earl Warren?
This court case ended segregation in schools.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Ed?
This man holds the Major League Baseball record for most consecutive games with a hit.
Who is Joe DiMaggio?
This theater was the location of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
What is the Ford Theater?
This man has the record for the most wins as a coach in all of college football history.
Who is John Gagliardi with 471?
These are the two original school colors of the Pennsylvania State University.
What are pink and black?
The only player in NHL history to score a goal in all five possible game situations in the same game: even- strength, power-play, shorthanded, penalty shot, and empty-net.
Who is Mario Lemieux?
Make your wager
The name of the group that Bobby Kennedy was placed in charge of during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Executive Committee or EXCOMM.