Ch. 20 - New Frontier & Great Society

What contributed to the end of the Cuban missile crisis?

• America’s secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey

• Castro’s promise to restore democracy

• Khrushchev agreeing to remove the missiles from Cuba

• Castro’s promise to break with the Soviet Union

Which place outside the area of the air patrol had a U.S. air base?

• Miami

• Puerto Rico

• Key West

• Guantanamo

In which way are the two men most alike?

• How tall they are

• How are they wearing their hair

• What they are doing

• What kind of books they like

What is suggested by the way the two men are posed?

• They are afraid of each other

• They know each other well enough to stand close together

• They are trying to get away from each other

• Each one barely notices the other is there

What was the main purpose of the flexible response military strategy? 

• To enable the United States to fight limited wars around the world 
•  To decrease the number of nuclear weapons 
• To prepare for the Bay of Pigs invasion
• To reduce defense spending

This was a direct communication link set up with the White House and the Kremlin during Kennedy's presidency

• Flexible respone
• Hot line 
• Mass communication
• Red phone

Because Kennedy was elected by such a slim margin, he lacked a popolar ______________

• recession
• opinion
• reapportionment
• mandate

The _________________ is a program in which the assistance of U.S. volunteers is offered to the developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

• Fair Deal
• Economic Opportunity Act
• Peace Corp
• Great Society

The __________________ of election districts shifted political power from rural to urban areas.

• Competition
•  Deregulation
• Proprietorship
• Reapportionment

President Kennedy was able to win the 1960 presidential election because of _____.

• age

• religion

• televised debates and African American support

• policy differences with his opponent