President Kennedy & Johnson's Presidency

Kennedy was the youngest president ever elected as president.

• True

• False

Because JFK was elected by a slim margin, he lacked a popular mandate.

• True

• False

What event was unique to the 1960 Presidential election

• No Vice-Presidential Candidates on the Ticket

• Last Republican nominated for the Presidency

• First Democratic Candidate elected to the Presidency

• First Televised Debate

The 1960 Presidential Election was a contest between which two candidates?

• John Kennedy (R) & Richard Nixon (D)

• John Kennedy (D) & Richard Nixon (R)

• Robert Kennedy (D) & Richard Nixon (R)

• Lyndon B Johnson (D) & Richard Nixon (R)

Medicare, a federal program established for Americans 65+, was intended to provide

• Car Insurance

• Home Insurance

• Life Insurance

• Health Insurance

Which president created the Great Society?

• FDR

• Truman

• Johnson

• JKF

Kennedy's domestic programs were nicknamed

• The Fair Deal

• The Fair Frontier

• The New Deal

• The New Frontier

Kennedy's most obvious foreign policy disaster...

• Vietnam War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs

• Korean War

The final result of the Space Race was:

• The Arms Race

• The end of the Cold War

• The US lands a man on the moon

• Russia lands a man on the moon

Cold War event that escalated the country to DefCon 2 status

• Bay of Pigs

• Vietnam War

• U-2 Spy Plane Incident

• Cuban Missile Crisis