1960-Space Race APUSH – Flashcards
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Election of 1960
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Richard Nixon - Republican John F. Kennedy - Democrat
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Johnson Rule
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Running for 2 offices at the same fime
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John F. Kennedy
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Youngest man ever elected president
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Why did Nixon lose the 1960 election?
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Kennedy looked better than Nixon on television; Kennedy sold himself better than Nixon did
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Bay of Pigs
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CIA operation to overthrow Castro; try to start a revolt in Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Castro and the communist government
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Fidel Castro
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Defeated Mitesta; announced that Cuba was going to become a communist country
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Who starts the Bay of Pigs?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower and when he leaves office it becomes Kennedy's job
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet leader
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1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall
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Divided east and West Berlin; nicknamed "check point Charlie"
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Oct 1962 Cuban missile crisis
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Soviet Union supposedly placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
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John F. Kennedy
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President of the United States of America during the Cuban missile crisis
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet leader during the Cuban missile crisis
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Fidel Castro
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Leader of Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis
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Problem with Cuban missile crisis?
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We told the world we were spying on them
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Results of the Cuban missile crisis?
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Red phone Taking missiles out of Turkey
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November 22, 1963
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Assassination date of John F. Kennedy
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Dallas, Texas
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Place of JFK's assassination
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Accused of shooting Kennedy
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Jack Ruby
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Man who shot Oswald
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John Conally
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Governor of Texas; sat in the front seat and was also shot
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Warren Commission
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Government investigating agency investigating the Kennedy assassination
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Earl Warren
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Head of the Warren Commission
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1957 Sputnik
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Russian satellite 1st manmade satellite in space
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1961 Yuri Gagarin
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Soviet 1st man in space 1st man to orbit earth
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1957 NASA
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National Aeronautics & Space Administration
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1958 Explorer 1
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1st US satellite
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New Frontier
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Kennedy's promise to get a man on the moon before the decade is over; space program
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Mercury Program
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Man in space Single austronauts getting into space
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May 1961 Alan Shepard
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1st American in space
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Feb1962 John Glenn
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1st American to orbit earth On the Ohio state quarter
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Friendship 7
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John Glenn orbits in this ship
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Gemini Program
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To prepare for moon landing 3 man crew
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1965 Edward White
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1st man to walk in space Texan
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Apollo Program
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Put a man on the moon 3 man crew
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July 20, 1969 Apollo 11
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1st mission to land on the moon
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Why's this important?
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Beat Russia to the moon Made it before the decade was over
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Neil Armstrong
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1st man to walk on the moon
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Buzz Aldrin
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2nd man to walk on the moon
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1972 Apollo 17
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Last mission to the moon
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Harrison "Jack" Schmitt
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Last man to walk on the moon
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25th amendment
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Presidential disability Puts VP in charge of the Pres goes away or under Created due to the Cuban missile crisis
