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A little over a year after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, in October 1962, the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba prompted the __________, the most dramatic nuclear standoff of the Cold War.
In 1965, Congress passed __________, a health plan providing universal hospital insurance for Americans over 65.
In Latin America, Kennedy hoped to counter the appeal of communism and Fidel Castro's successful revolution in Cuba in 1959 by initiating the __________, a multibillion-dollar aid program for Latin America.
From 1964 to 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson pressed Congress to enact a series of social and economic reforms designed to promote what he called the __________.
The __________ formed in Minneapolis in 1968 and was inspired by the November 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
In 1966, Betty Friedan helped found the __________, which advocated an end to laws that discriminated against women, opportunity to work any job, and equal pay for equal work.
The most controversial Supreme Court decision on criminal rights was __________ (1966), which expanded the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on self-incrimination.
The Great Society included an ambitions __________ program designed to encourage physical and economic revitalization of the nation's poorest urban areas.
During the fall campaign of 1960, Kennedy challenged voters to explore and conquer a __________, which inspired millions of Americans to believe they could improve their country.
Founded in Oakland in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the __________ advocated self-determination and armed self-defense against police brutality.
Kennedy approved a CIA plan in January 1961 to train approximately 1,500 Cuban exiles for the so-called __________, but his refusal to provide further assistance led to its failure.
Young people profoundly influenced trends in popular culture and many experimented with alternative lifestyles in the __________ during the second half of the decade.