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CHAPTER 19 GUIDED READING
THE KENNEDY AND JOHNSON YEARS
Section 1
1. Identify the similarities between Nixon and Kennedy in the 1960 election.
2. Identify the differences between Nixon and Kennedy in the 1960 election.
3. What role did television play in the 1960 election? (BE SPECIFIC)
4. How did Kennedy win strong support from African Americans?
5. What was the first goal of the Kennedy Administration? Why?
6. Describe the difference between Eisenhower’s defense policy and Kennedy’s defense policy.
7. Describe the goals of the Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress?
8. Describe how relations between Cuba and the United States worsened after Fidel Castro gained
power.
9. Was the Bay of Pigs Invasion a success or a failure? Explain.
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10. ESSAY: Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis.
11. Identify 5 effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
12. Describe the outcome of the Vienna Conference where Kennedy and Khrushchev met in 1961.
13. Identify how Kennedy helped increase Cold War tensions after the Vienna Conference.
14. Identify how Khrushchev helped increase Cold War tensions after the Vienna Conference.
Section 2
1. Describe what President Kennedy meant by the term “new frontier?”
2. Describe how President Kennedy stimulated the economy.
3. What forced President Kennedy to get more involved in Civil Rights issues?
4. Identify the major breakthroughs in the space program between 1958 and 1969?
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5. Why was winning the “space race” so important to the United States?
6. What happened to President Kennedy in November, 1963?
7. What was the outcome of the investigation by the Warren Commission?
Section 3
1. Give a brief description of Lyndon Johnson’s background.
2. Describe how President Johnson was an important part of Kennedy’s victory in 1960.
3. Describe the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
4. What issues did President Johnson’s War on Poverty address?
5. What programs were implemented by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964? Which program
was the most successful?
6. Identify the differences between Goldwater and Johnson in the 1964 presidential election.
7. Describe what President Johnson meant by the Great Society.
8. What groups of Americans benefited from Medicare and Medicaid?
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9. Identify the programs that were put into effect as part of the Great Society to protect the
environment and consumers?
10. What effect did the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 have on the United States?
11. Describe the legacy that Johnson’s Great Society left on the United States?
12. Who was the Chief Justice during the 1960s?
13. Identify the results of each of the following:
a. Mapp v. Ohio 1961
b. Engel v. Vitale 1962
c. Gideon v Wainwright 1963
d. Escobedo v. Illinois 1964
e. Miranda v. Arizona 1966
f. Engel v. Vitale 1962
g. Abington v. Schempp 1963
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