APUSH - Ch. 38-40 Test Answers? Flashcards
When he became attorney general, what did Robert Kennedy refocus the attention of the FBI on?
organized crime and civil rights.
When he took office in 1961, how did President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy?
a tax cut
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
prevent Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime from falling to the communists.
The Alliance for Progress was intended to improve the level of economic well-being in
Latin America
Why did the Bay of Pigs invasion fail? (Page 978)
Kennedy did not bring in air support ?
When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba,
a naval quarantine of that island
The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following (4)
the removal of Nikita Khrushchev from power in the Soviet Union
a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba
an ambitious program of military expansion by the Soviet Union
withdrawal of U.S. missiles in Turkey
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.
At the time of his death, President John Kennedy’s civil rights bill
was locked in a filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
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.
All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson’s
administration (4)
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities
Project Head Start
Medicare
Office of Economic Opportunity
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 (4)
creation of the Equal Employment opportunity commission
prohibiting discrimination based on gender
banning sexual as well as racial discrimination
banning racial discrimination in most private facilities open to the public
As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965,
sources of immigration shifted to Latin America and Asia.
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.