Chapter 38

Question 1

When he became attorney general, Robert Kennedy wanted to refocus the attention of the FBI on

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organized crime and civil rights.

Question 2

When he took office in 1961, President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through

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a tax cut

Question 3

In the early 1960s, as leader of France, Charles de Gaulle

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feared American control over European affairs.

Question 4

The 1962 Trade Expansion Act

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reduced American tariffs.

Question 5

John F. Kennedy’s strategy of “flexible response”

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called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis.

Question 6

While it seemed sane enough, John F. Kennedy’s doctrine of flexible response contained some lethal logic that

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potentially lowered the level at which diplomacy would give way to shooting.

Question 7

American military forces entered Vietnam in order to

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help to stage a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem.

Question 8

The Alliance for Progress was intended to improve the level of economic well-being in

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Latin America

Question 9

Which one of the following is least related to the other three?

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Bay of Pigs

Question 10

When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered

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a naval quarantine of that island.

Question 11

The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except

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U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo.

Question 12

In a speech at American University in 1963, President Kennedy recommended the adoption of a policy toward the Soviet Union based on

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peaceful coexistence

Question 13

At first, John F. Kennedy moved very slowly in the area of racial justice because he

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needed the support of southern legislators to pass his economic and social legislation.

Question 14

John Kennedy joined hands with the civil rights movement when he

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sent federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders.

Question 15

President Kennedy ordered hundreds of federal marshals and thousands of federal troops to force the racial integration of

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The University of Mississippi

Question 16

By mid-1963, President John F. Kennedy’s position on civil rights can best be described as

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supportive but unwilling to stake his political career on the issue.

Question 17

At the time of his death, President John Kennedy’s civil rights bill

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was locked in a filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Question 18

The official government investigation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination was led by

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Earl Warren

Question 19

President Kennedy’s alleged assassin was

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Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 20

President Johnson proved to be much more successful than President Kennedy at

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working with congress

Question 21

President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the

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Great Society

Question 22

With the passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution,

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Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam.

Question 23

Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their

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all of the above

Question 24

Lyndon Johnson channeled educational aid

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to public and parochial schools.

Question 25

All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson’s administration except

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the Peace Corps

Question 26

In the final analysis, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs

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won some noteworthy battles in education and health care.

Question 27

The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except

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prohibiting discrimination based on gender.

Question 28

As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965,

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sources of immigration shifted to Latin America and Asia.

Question 29

The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the

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Twenty-fourth amendment

Question 30

Beginning in 1964, the chief goal of the black civil rights movement in the South was to

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secure the right to vote

Question 31

As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,

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white southerners began to court black votes.

Question 32

The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized

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the more militant and confrontational phase of the civil rights movement.

Question 33

Black leaders in the 1960s included ___ , an advocate of peaceable resistance; ___ , who favored black separatism; and ___, an advocate of “Black Power.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; Stokely Carmichael

Question 34

By the late 1960s, Black Power advocates in the North focused their attention primarily on

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economic demands

Question 35

Some advocates of Black Power insisted that their slogan stood for all of the following except

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violence

Question 36

By 1972, integrated classrooms were most common in the

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South

Question 37

Aerial bombardment in Vietnam

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strengthened the communists’ will to resist.

Question 38

“Operation Rolling Thunder” was the code name for

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American bombing raids on North Vietnam.

Question 39

The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam policy

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was the Tet offensive of 1968.

Question 40

During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charter, to

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spy on domestic antiwar protestors.

Question 41

The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed

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a police riot against antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall.

Question 42

The third-party candidate for president in 1968 was

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George Wallace

Question 43

Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should

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continue the war in pursuit of an “honorable peace.”

Question 44

The skepticism about authority that emerged in the United States during the 1960s

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had deep historical roots in American culture.

Question 45

“three P’s” that largely explain the cultural upheavals of the 1960s are

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population bulge, protest against Vietnam, and prosperity.

Question 46

The site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation in 1969 was

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the Stonewall Inn (New York City).