Chapter 15 - 2 ?s pg 719 1,2,5,6

chapter 15 Study Guide

1. New Frontier
2. Earl Warren
3. 1960 Presidential Campaign
4. Reapportionment
5. Flexible response
6. Space race
7. Peace Corps
8. Berlin wall
9. Warren Commission
10. Bay of Pigs invasion
11. Cuban Missile Crisis
12. Great Society
13. Medicaid / Medicare (know the difference)
14. Head Start
15. Robert Weaver

What was different about the 1960 election? (influence of the media)

How was Kennedy's vision for the armed forces different from Eisenhower's? How did he plan to deal with the communists?

Explain the Warren Commission and it's findings. What were some of the "conspiracy" theories?

List LBJ's Great Society programs. Be able to discuss a few of the programs and how/who they were designed to benefit.

Why were LBJ's programs ultimately not as successful as he hoped. (Why did he not run for the presidency in 1968?)

Chapter 15 sec1 ?s 1,2,4,6 (711)

Answer the section review questions (1,2,4,6) on page 711

14 TEST review

Terms / Questions for Chapter 14 Test
Explain the GI Bill and how it helped to boost the US economy
Explain white and Blue collar jobs and why the US shifted to multinational corporations
List/explain the factors that led to the growth of suburbs. What were the effects of suburbs and "urban renewal" projects on inner cities?
Explain Eisenhower's dynamic conservatism. Discuss specific examples.

Terms

Taft-Hartley Act
Federal Highway Act
Multinational Corporation
Baby boom
Levittown
Jonas Salk
Generation Gap
Beat Movement
New Consumerism
Michael Harrington