Kennedy's Flexible Response & LBJ's Great Society

What options did JFK consider when confronted with the Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba?

• 1. Diplomacy (talking though the matter)

  2. Air Strike followed by invasion

  3. A naval blockade

• 1. Diplomacy

  2. Nuclear Strike

  3. A naval blockade

• 1. A nuclear strike

  2. Air Strike followed by invasion

  3. A naval blockade

a series of legislative measures intended to end poverty and racial injustice.

• The New Deal

• The Great Society

• A Square Deal

____________was created to financially assist painters, musicians, actors, and other artists.

• Job Corps

• National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities

• The New Deal

By the time Johnson left the White House in 1969, Congress had passed ___ of his measures.

• 2

• 20

• 206

• 2061

________________provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost every American age 65 or older.

• Medicare

• Medicaid

___________created Job Corps, Project Head Start, and other programs to fight the “war on poverty”.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

• Medicare

____________is a voluntary program administered by the United States Department of Labor that offers free-of-charge education and vocational training to young men and women ages 16 to 24.

• Job Corps

• Head Start

___________extended health insurance to welfare recipients.

• Medicaid

• Medicare

LBJ changed ___________ by establishing Medicare & Medicaid.

• Social Security

• Works Progress Administration

• FDIC

_________directed more than $1 Billion to schools for textbooks, library materials, and special education.

• Elementary and Secondary Education Act

• Medicare

• Economic Opportunity Act of 1964