Pre-AP Chapter 15 Review

Lesson 1 – The New Frontier

  1. A big issue in the 1960 presidential election was Kennedy’s ______.
  2. During the campaign, Kennedy said that the US lagged behind the USSR in weaponry called the ______.
  3. Kennedy’s legislative agenda was called the ______.
  4. Because the number of representatives was often skewed in favor of rural areas, Tennessee voters went to court in the case, ______v. ______, forcing reapportionment (the redrawing of congressional districts).
  5. In a similar case, ______v. ______, the court ruled that states had to reapportion districts based on the principle: “one person, one vote.”
  6. In the case ______v. ______, the court ruled that authorities had to inform suspects of their rights (right to remain silent, right to a lawyer, etc.).
  7. A number of cases reaffirmed the principle of separation of ______, making it illegal to have mandatory prayers and Bible readings in school.

Lesson 2 – JFK and the Cold War

  1. To counter Communist expansion, Kennedy pushed for more troops and conventional weapons in addition to nuclear weapons called ______.
  2. To improve relations with Latin America, Kennedy proposed the ______

______.

  1. Another program Kennedy developed was the ______, which sought to help developing nations fight poverty.
  2. The launching of Sputnik in 1957 and the first person in space a Russian had proven to the US that they had been beaten in the ______.
  3. In July 1969, ______became the first person to step foot on the moon.
  4. Water filters, new types of insulation, the CAT scanner, memory foam, and new types of rubber (now used in shoes) were all inventions resulting from the ______

______.

  1. In April 1961, Kennedy backed a CIA plan to land Cuban anti-communist forces at the ______that ended in an embarrassing defeat.
  2. In June 1961, the leader of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev, wanting to stop the flow of Germans from the Communist East to the Democratic West and get the West out of Berlin, built the ______.
  3. In 1962, after discovering that the USSR was setting up nuclear missiles in Cuba, Kennedy ordered a ______.
  4. On November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, President Kennedy was assassinated by

______.

Lesson 3 – The Great Society

  1. Upon Kennedy’s death, ______became president.
  2. After taking office, Johnson began a war on ______.
  3. The Neighborhood Youth Corps, the Job Corps, and VISTA were established by the

______Act of 1964.

  1. Johnson’s domestic programs were called the ______.
  2. Medical care for senior citizens was provided by ______while Medicaid helped the poor.
  3. Johnson also pushed an education program for disadvantaged children called

______.

  1. Like Social Security, Medicare is an ______program.
  2. Under Johnson, a new cabinet agency, the ______was established.