American History Handout Chapters 20:

1.  Who won the closest election in American history?

2.  Who lost the closest election in American history? ***** Kennedy Johnson Nixon

3. Who was the chief justice of the supreme court at this time, over saw the Miranda vs. Arizona case? ***** Thurgood Marshal Richard Nixon Earl Warren

4. What country did Kennedy have a crisis with that almost put us into a world war with the USSR? ***** Cuba Dominican Republic Germany

5.  Who was the first human into space?  ***** Dulles Armstrong Vietnamese Gagarin

6.  What was Kennedy's plan to confront communism in the world militarily? **** Massive Retaliation Flexible Response Peace Corps

7.  What was the ill fated attack on Castro's Cuba called?

8.  What did they build in Germany to keep people from communist East Berlin from fleeing to the west?

9.  In what city was Kennedy assassinated? **** Washington Dallas Chicago

10.  Who assassinated John F. Kennedy?

11.& 12.  What two men ran for president in 1964

13.  Who was better at foreign affairs, JFK or LBJ?

14.  Who was better at domestic affairs, JFK or LBJ?.

15.  Who did the Kennedy's not get along with very well, in fact they hated this guy?