A | B |
flexible response | Policy of using non-nuclear weapons to fight a war |
Fidel Castro | ruler of Cuba |
Berlin Wall | barrier built to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin |
hot line | direct phone line between the White House and the Kremlin |
Limited Test Ban Treaty | Treaty that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere |
New Frontier | Kennedy's domestic program |
Peace Corps | a program that enlisted volunteers to help in poor countries |
Alliance for Progress | a program that supplied aid to Latin America |
Warren commission | body that investigated the assassination of JFK |
Lee Harvey Oswald | alleged shooter of JFK |
Lyndon B Johnson | Jfk's VP who succeeded him |
Economic Opportunity Act | Act that created numerous anti-poverty measures |
Great Society | LBJ's domestic agenda |
Medicare | health benefits for the elderly |
Medicaid | health benefits for the poor |
Warren Court | Supreme court under chief justice Earl Warren |
re-apportionment | the way in which states redraw their election district |
Miranda Rights | special righs of criminal suspects |
conspiracy | an agreement between two or more people to perform an illegal act |
Khrushchev | Soviet leader who squared off against JFK during the Cuban crisis |
Daisy spot | commercial launched by LBJ against Goldwater's nuclear policy |
Kremlin | serves as the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the Russian Federation, overlooks Red Square in Moscow |
Jack Ruby | assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald |
Texas School Book Depository | building where Oswald was when he allegedly shot JFK |
Robert Kennedy | JFK's brother who served as his Atty. General |
Richard Nixon | lost 1960 election by a small margin after the first televised debate |
Arlington National Cemetary | where JFK is buried |
eternal flame | marks JFk's grave |
Brown v Board of Education | segregation in schools unconstitutional-overthrew Plessy v. Ferguson |
Baker v Carr | one person-one vote;states must redirect districts to make representation equal |
Mapp v Ohio | Evidence seized illegally could not be used in court |
Gideon v Wainright | Free legal council must be given in criminal court cases to those who could not afford it |
Escobedo v Illinois | an accused person has the right to have a lawyer President during questioning |
Miranda v Arizona | suspects must be read their rights before arrested |