Kennedy and Johnson Years

President Kennedy’s policies were known as the ______________

• New Deal

• Great Society

• Five Year Plan

• New Frontier

Group that studied the Kennedy Assassination

• Herter Committee

• U.S. Select Commission

• Warren Commission

• Kersten Committee

Provided health insurance for poor Americans

• Medicaid

• Humana

• HCSC

• UnitedHealth

Required that suspects be informed of their rights

• Right to Silence

• Evidence Act

• Miranda Rights

• Public Order Act of 1994

Program in which volunteers served in developing nations

• Peace Corps

• SAVE Volunteering

• Pacific Discovery

• VIA Global Fellowship

Failed attempt by the United States to oust Fidel Castro

• Operation Husky

• AJAX

• Eagle Claw

• Bay of Pigs

Standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that could have led to nuclear war

• Fulda Gap Maneuvers

• Cuban Missile Crises

• Operation Tora Bora

• The Tartary Strait Incident

Prohibited above-ground nuclear testing

• Threshold Test Ban Treaty

• Limited Test Ban Treaties

• SALT II

• Vladivostok Agreement

Kennedy reacted to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba by

• Declaring war on the Soviets.

• Setting up a naval quarantine around Cuba.

• Invading Cuba.

• Bombing the missile sites.

This was the primary cause of the loss of federal funding for the Great Society programs

• The war in Vietnam

• Increased federal deficits

• Lack of initiative by President Johnson

• The Warren Supreme Court