| This 1962 case involved the redistribution
of legislative districts so that it reflected
the population trend. The federal courts
had avoided the issue, but ruled that over-represented
rural districts should be eliminated. |
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| This U. S.-Soviet agreement called for the
end of atmospheric testing of nuclear devices. |
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| The U. S. government agency which sought
to assist developing countries by sending
American volunteers to teach and to provide
technical assistance. |
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| Kennedy's Attorney General and his most controversial
cabinet appointee. |
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| The U. S. Supreme Court declared that evidence
obtained in violation of the search and seizure
provisions of the Fourth Amendment were inadmissible
in court. |
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| The policy that JFK used when dealing with
the Communist Bloc. It called for the preparation
of more conventional weapons to be used against
Soviet aggression, since nuclear weapons
were to be used only as a last resort. |
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| This African American Air Force veteran of
the Korean War attempted to enroll in the
all-white University of Mississippi, but
was denied admission because he was black.
Five thousand federal troops had to be sent
so that he could register. |
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| Cuban exiles, secretly trained by the C.
I. A. and supplied by the U. S. government,
attempted to invade the island and overthrow
Castro's Communist government there. |
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| The program of economic aid to Latin American
countries initiated by President Kennedy
to build on the good will established by
FDR's Good Neighbor Policy. |
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| President Kennedy's Secretary of State who
said during the Cuban Missile Crisis: We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the
other fellow just blinked. |
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| Erected by the East German government to
prevent an embarrassing "Brain Drain"
to the West, it was here that JFK assured
the West Germans and peoples fighting Communism
throughout the world that the U. S. would
continue to protect them from Soviet aggression. |
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| The Supreme Court ruled that the reciting
of an official prayer in a public school
was illegal. |
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| This 1962 U. S.-Soviet confrontation was
the closest the world ever came to global
thermal nuclear war. |
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