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  1. 3. Coexistence, a foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.
  2. 5. Nickname for President Johnson.
  3. 8. Federal health insurance program for senior citizens.
  4. 10. on Poverty, part of the Great Society program to address poverty in the US.
  5. 11. Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
  6. 14. Offensive, a major military campaign by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
  7. 15. Shepard, the first American to travel into space.
  8. 17. for Progress, JFK's program to promote economic development and democracy in Latin America.
  9. 21. Frontier, JFK's domestic policy agenda.
  10. 23. Pigs, a failed CIA-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961.
  11. 25. F. Kennedy, JFK's younger brother and Attorney General was also assassinated in 1968.
  12. 26. Tonkin, an incident that led to increased US involvement in the Vietnam War.
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  1. 1. Riders, activists who rode buses into the segregated South to challenge discrimination.
  2. 2. President who led the US during the early 1960s.
  3. 4. Test Ban Treaty, the agreement signed by the US, Soviet Union, and UK to ban nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater.
  4. 6. Goldwater, Republican nominee for President in 1964 was defeated by LBJ.
  5. 7. Act, legislation signed into law by President Johnson in 1965 abolished quotas based on nationality.
  6. 9. Society, President Johnson's domestic policy agenda.
  7. 12. Rights Act, landmark legislation signed into law by President Johnson in 1964.
  8. 13. Corps, a volunteer program launched by JFK to promote peace and development in developing countries.
  9. 16. Agency responsible for the US space program.
  10. 18. B. Johnson, President who succeeded JFK after his assassination.
  11. 19. The term was used to describe the Kennedy administration's idealized vision of politics and public service.
  12. 20. Missile Crisis, was a major foreign policy crisis during the Kennedy administration.
  13. 22. Rights Act, landmark legislation signed into law by President Johnson in 1965 to protect the voting rights of minorities.
  14. 24. Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated JFK in 1963.