When he became attorney general, Robert Kennedy wanted to refocus the attention of the FBI on |
organized crime and civil rights. |
When he took office in 1961, President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through |
a tax cut. |
In the early 1960s, as leader of France, Charles de Gaulle |
feared American control over European affairs. |
The 1962 Trade Expansion Act |
reduced American tariffs. |
John F. Kennedy’s strategy of "flexible response" |
called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis. |
While it seemed sane enough, John F. Kennedy’s doctrine of flexible response contained some lethal logic that |
potentially lowered the level at which diplomacy would give way to shooting. |
American military forces entered Vietnam in order to |
help to stage a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem. |
The Alliance for Progress was intended to improve the level of economic well-being in |
Latin America. |
Which one of the following is least related to the other three? |
Bay of Pigs |
When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered |
a naval quarantine of that island. |
The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except |
U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo. |
In a speech at American University in 1963, President Kennedy recommended the adoption of a policy toward the Soviet Union based on |
peaceful coexistence. |
At first, John F. Kennedy moved very slowly in the area of racial justice because he |
needed the support of southern legislators to pass his economic and social legislation. |
John Kennedy joined hands with the civil rights movement when he |
sent federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders. |
President Kennedy ordered hundreds of federal marshals and thousands of federal troops to force the racial integration of |
the University of Mississippi. |
By mid-1963, President John F. Kennedy’s position on civil rights can best be described as |
supportive but unwilling to stake his political career on the issue. |
At the time of his death, President John Kennedy’s civil rights bill |
was locked in a filibuster in the U.S. Senate. |
The official government investigation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination was led by |
Earl Warren. |
President Kennedy’s alleged assassin was |
Lee Harvey Oswald. |
President Johnson proved to be much more successful than President Kennedy at |
working with Congress |
President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the |
Great Society. |
With the passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, |
Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam. |
Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their |
all of the above. |
Lyndon Johnson channeled educational aid |
to public and parochial schools. |
All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson’s administration except |
the Peace Corps. |
In the final analysis, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs |
won some noteworthy battles in education and health care. |
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except |
prohibiting discrimination based on gender. |
As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, |
sources of immigration shifted to Latin America and Asia. |
The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the |
Twenty-fourth Amendment. |
Beginning in 1964, the chief goal of the black civil rights movement in the South was to |
secure the right to vote |
As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, |
white southerners began to court black votes. |
The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized |
the more militant and confrontational phase of the civil rights movement. |
Black leaders in the 1960s included ___ , an advocate of peaceable resistance; ___ , who favored black separatism; and ___, an advocate of "Black Power." |
b. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; Stokely Carmichael |
By the late 1960s, Black Power advocates in the North focused their attention primarily on |
economic demands. |
Some advocates of Black Power insisted that their slogan stood for all of the following except |
violence. |
By 1972, integrated classrooms were most common in the |
South. |
Aerial bombardment in Vietnam |
strengthened the communists’ will to resist. |
"Operation Rolling Thunder" was the code name for |
American bombing raids on North Vietnam. |
The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam policy |
was the Tet offensive of 1968. |
During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charter, to |
spy on domestic antiwar protestors. |
The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed |
a police riot against antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall. |
The third-party candidate for president in 1968 was |
George Wallace. |
Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should |
continue the war in pursuit of an "honorable peace." |
The skepticism about authority that emerged in the United States during the 1960s |
had deep historical roots in American culture. |
"three P’s" that largely explain the cultural upheavals of the 1960s are |
population bulge, protest against Vietnam, and prosperity. |
The site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation in 1969 was |
the Stonewall Inn (New York City). |
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