| A | B |
|---|
| John F. Kennedy | elected President in 1960 |
| Richard M. Nixon | ran against Kennedy in 1960 |
| flexible response | Kennedy's new defensive strategy |
| Fidel Castro | led a Communist revolution in Cuba |
| Bay of Pigs | unsuccessful attempt by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | almost resulted in a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR |
| Berlin Wall | barrier put up to keep people from leaving Communist East Berlin |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's broad vision of human progress |
| Peace Corps | program of volunteers to developing nations |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | killed President Kennedy in Dallas |
| Warren Commission | investigated the Kennedy assassination for Congress |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | took over after the death of JFK |
| Great Society | Lyndon Johnson's policies to end racism and poverty |
| Massachusetts | where JFK was born |
| Harvard | where JFK graduated in 1940 |
| Profiles in Courage | his book won a Pulitzer Prize |
| blockade | in October 1962 Kennedy placed a ___________ on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba |
| Test Ban | 1963 treaty that banned spread of nuclear weapons was the _____ ___ Treaty |
| John Connally | Governor of Texas riding with Kennedy |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | sworn in on Air Force One |
