Chapter 15 - The New Frontier and the Great Society

Kennedy's legislative agenda was called the

• Great Society
• New Frontier
• Fair Deal 
• Square Deal

Kennedy's "flexible response" plan called for 

• a buildup of nuclear weapons
• a buildup of conventional weapons
• a reduction of military bases
• a reductions of the special forces

The Warren Court's decision in Reynolds v. Sims boosted the political power of

• land developers and rural farmers
• Southern and Northern conservatives
• African Americans and Latinos
• big and small businesses

The Alliance for Progress was a

• series of programs to improve life in American inner cities
• job program that sent young people to work in poor American school districts
• series of cooperative aid projects with Latin American governments
• free-trade agreement between the United States and Latin American countries

The Office of Economic Opportunity was a major part of Johnson's 

• health care reform program
• education reform program
• war on poverty
• war on crime

The 1960 presidential race was the first time candidates made substantial use of

• the courts
• newspapers
• radio
• television

On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced that American spy planes had taken aerial photographs showing that the Soviet Union had placed long-range missiles in

• Cuba
• Germany
• the Bahamas
• Central America

President Kennedy's goal in the space race with the Soviet Union was for the United States to be the first to 

• put a man into space
• put a man into orbit
• put a space station into orbit
• put a man on the moon

The purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to

• support Fidel Castro's government in Cuba
• spark an uprising against Fidel Castro in Cuba
• force Soviets to remove missiles from Cuba
• take over Cuba and make it an American protectorate

Which of the following was a major Great Society program?

• a breakfast program for the elderly
• a milk program for the elderly 
• Medicaid for the elderly
• Medicare for the elderly