Chapter 29 1960s Flashcards
During the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:
promised to pursue a “new frontier.”
T or F: Nikita Khrushchev was Soviet premier while Kennedy was president.
True
The first African American cabinet member was:
Robert C. Weaver.
The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson’s urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:
government guarantee of full employment.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964:
outlawed segregation in public facilities.
President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:
Great Society.
The Tet offensive of early 1968:
dramatically affected public support for Johnson’s war policy.
In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:
erecting the Berlin Wall.
Kennedy’s inauguration is best remembered for:
his elegant and inspiring rhetoric.
The Cuban missile crisis:
brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
T or F: Jack Ruby was charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy, but doubts about his guilt linger.
False
By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were proponents of what they termed:
black power.
The Cuban missile crisis:
brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
The Tonkin Gulf resolution:
allowed Johnson to escalate the war.
T or F: By 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. had become a leading spokesman for “black power.”
False
T or F: From the beginning of his presidency, Kennedy vigorously supported black civil rights.
False
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed:
Martin Luther King Jr.
All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:
the Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen.
The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:
his brother, Robert.
During the 1964 campaign, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater:
offered a sharply conservative alternative to Johnson’s policies.
T or F: Johnson’s Great Society programs helped reduce the number of people living in poverty.
True
When Alabama governor George Wallace was ordered by federal marshals to stand aside from the doorway at the University of Alabama so that black students could enter, Wallace:
stood aside.
The major purpose of the Soviet missiles placed in Cuba was to:
deter another American-supported invasion of Cuba.
The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:
the sit-in.
In retrospect, Johnson’s war on poverty:
generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans.
