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AnswerAnswer: First astronaut to step on the moon

QuestionQuestion: Who is Neil Armstrong?

AnswerAnswer: Kennedy convinced congress to invest more money in this.

QuestionQuestion: What was defense and space exploration?

AnswerAnswer: “Flexible Response”

QuestionQuestion: What was a build-up of conventional troops and weapons?

AnswerAnswer: Kennedy’s goal for the nation in the space race.

QuestionQuestion: What was landing a man on the moon?

AnswerAnswer: Khrushchev promised to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba. Kennedy promised publicly not to invade Cuba- and also this.

QuestionQuestion: What was a promise privately to remove missiles from Turkey?

AnswerAnswer: Head Start

QuestionQuestion: What is a preschool program for the disadvantaged?

AnswerAnswer: Many Democrats in Congress did not feel that Kennedy helped them win their seats.

QuestionQuestion: What was the reason Kennedy was unable to pass many of his domestic programs?

AnswerAnswer: A series of cooperative aid projects with Latin American governments.

QuestionQuestion: What was The Alliance for Progress?

AnswerAnswer: Medicaid

QuestionQuestion: What is government- sponsored health care for the people living below the poverty line?

AnswerAnswer: Job Corps

QuestionQuestion: What helped young unemployed people find jobs?

AnswerAnswer: Television was used for this for the first time in the 1960 presidential campaign.

QuestionQuestion: What was advertising candidates?

AnswerAnswer: Influenced strongly the outcome of the 1960 presidential election.

QuestionQuestion: What were the Televised Debates?

AnswerAnswer: Kennedy spoke of separation of church and state during his presidential campaign to help soothe concerns of this.

QuestionQuestion: What were Kennedy’s strong Catholic Beliefs?

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AnswerAnswer: John Kennedy’s youth and optimism captured the imagination of the American public. He called on his fellow Americans to take an active role in making the US a better place. Kennedy’s looks, his glamorous wife, and their young children seemed to have been created for media coverage. His charisma inspired people with “a feeling that he was moving, and the world with him, toward a better time.”

QuestionQuestion: What was the “Kennedy Mystique”?

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AnswerAnswer: Kennedy, a Catholic, came from a Massachusetts family of wealth and influence. Nixon, a Quaker, was a Californian from a financially struggling family. Kennedy seemed outgoing and relaxed, while Nixon struck many as formal and even stiff in manner. Both promised to boost the economy and both portrayed themselves as “Cold Warriors” determined to stop communism.

QuestionQuestion: What is a comparison between Kennedy and Nixon?

AnswerAnswer: This court case caused a shift in political power from rural areas to urban areas.

QuestionQuestion: What is Reynolds v. Sims?

AnswerAnswer: This court case ruled that the accused has the right to an attorney during police questioning.

QuestionQuestion: What is Escobedo v. Illinois?

AnswerAnswer: This court case ruled that prohibiting the sale and use of birth control devices violated citizens’ constitutional right to privacy.

QuestionQuestion: What is Griswold v. Connecticut?

AnswerAnswer: This court case ruled that felony suspects are entitled to court-appointed attorney if unable to afford one on their own.

QuestionQuestion: What is Gideon v. Wainwright?

AnswerAnswer: This court case ruled that the exclusion of African Americans from juries violated their right to equal protection under the law.

QuestionQuestion: What is Norris v. Alabama?

AnswerAnswer: This was in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks.

QuestionQuestion: What was the organization of a bus boycott?

AnswerAnswer: This ruling had established the separate-but-equal doctrine.

QuestionQuestion: What was Plessy v. Ferguson?

AnswerAnswer: CORE successfully integrated many restaurants by using this nonviolent strategy.

QuestionQuestion: What was a sit-in?

AnswerAnswer: This organization set out to end segregation and encourage African Americans to register to vote.

QuestionQuestion: What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

AnswerAnswer: The NAACP’s chief counsel.

QuestionQuestion: Who was Thurgood Marshall?

AnswerAnswer: The place where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated?

QuestionQuestion: Where is Memphis, Tennessee?

AnswerAnswer: The place of “march for freedom” in which state troopers and deputized citizens brutally attacked marchers in full view of television.

QuestionQuestion: Where is Selma, Alabama?

AnswerAnswer: A place of violence against demonstrators, viewed by millions on television, that prompted Kennedy to prepare a new civil rights bill.

QuestionQuestion: Where is Birmingham, Alabama?

AnswerAnswer: Place, for the first time since the Civil War, that a state’s armed forces were used to oppose the authority of the federal government.

QuestionQuestion: Where is Little Rock, Arkansas?

AnswerAnswer: A sit-in at Woolworth’s that sparked a new mass movement for civil rights took place in this city.

QuestionQuestion: Where is Greensboro, North Carolina?