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The Bay of Pigs incident was poorly planned and added to anti-American views of the U.S. government in Latin America.
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True
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John F. Kennedy easily defeat Richard Nixon in the presidential election of 1960 and thus was given a clear mandate by the American public.
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False
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The Cuban missile crisis was an example of U.S. brinkmanship.
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True
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President Lyndon B. Johnson effectively used his legislative skills to convince Congress to pass his social programs.
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True
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The hot line between President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev helped prevent nuclear war between the two superpowers
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True
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Baker v. Carr established the principle of “one person, one vote.”
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True
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President Kennedy was able to sign into law the programs of Medicare and Medicaid.
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False
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Lyndon Johnson sought to continue the social programs of President Kennedy but to expand their nature.
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True
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The rulings of the Warren Court increased civil liberties.
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True
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As a whole it can said that President Johnson’s Great Society was an
extension of the New Deal.
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True
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What was unique of John F. Kennedy except that he
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was the first Catholic president
was assassinated in his first term
was the youngest president ever elected
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During the Kennedy years, Congress enthusiastically committed funds
for what?
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The space program.
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The defense policy called “flexible response” was designed to allow the
United States to do what?
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Engage in military actions that stopped short of nuclear attack
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What were programs that resulted from the Great Society?
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H.U.D.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities
Pell Grants for education
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Warren Court decisions regarding reapportionment dealt with fairly
balancing the representation of
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Urban and rural voters
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