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Kennedy and Nixon were called
“Cold Warriors.” What did that mean?
a. | They were both
anti-communist | c. | They were both
Navy veterans | b. | They were both from the Northeast | d. | They were unfeeling politicians |
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What was
SNCC?
a. | Student Non-violent Coordinating
Committee | c. | Southern non-white
Christian Committee | b. | Student non-Christian Committee | d. | Southern non-Christian Coordinating
Council |
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Who was the first person in
space
a. | The Russian Yuri
Gregarin | c. | The American Lance
Armstrong | b. | The American Alan Ginsberg | d. | The German Werner Von Braun |
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The Kennedy Administration
supported the overthrow of Diem by the Generals in South Vietnam.
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Finally Khrushchev agreed to
take Soviet missiles out of Cuba. What did the U.S. promise to have the missiles
removed?
a. | The U.S. promised it would never
invade Cuba | c. | The U.S. would get
out of Berlin | b. | The U.S. would get out of Vietnam | d. | The U.S. would buy millions of gallons of Russian
vodka |
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Who was the first Americn in
space
a. | Yuri
Gargarin | c. | Heny Cabot
Lodge | b. | Alan Sheppard | d. | butch the dog |
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What were the Freedom
Rides?
a. | Young white students rode busses
into the South to register Black people to vote. | c. | Young black and white students rode busses into the South to register Black
people to vote. | b. | Young black and white students rode busses into the South to register White
people to vote. | d. | Young black students rode busses
into the South to register Black people to vote. |
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What were the laws called that
forced a seperation of whites and blacks in almost all social activities in the
South?
a. | forced
integration | c. | Civil Rights
Laws | b. | Jim Crow laws | d. | de facto segregation |
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After the U.S. learned that the
Soviets had installed missiles in Cuba, Kennedy sent the U.S. Navy to blockade Cuba. The Soviets had
ships headed for Cuba and no one was sure what would happen when they reacted the blockade. As
America waited for the Soviet ships to reach the blockade, what else happened in America? (pick all
that apply)
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10.
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When the Soviet Union put a man
in space Americans became
a. | concerned about American
education | c. | afraid that they
might loose consumer goods | b. | angry | d. | happy for the Soviet
success |
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What was the name of the
organization, started by President Kennedy, that sent people around the world to help improve the
lives of third world people.
a. | the Peace
Corp | c. | the American
missionaries | b. | the Kennedy brigades | d. | the Green Berets |
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12.
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Kennedy increased the number of
American advisros (soldiers) to more than 3000 in 1961
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_____ was the anti-communist
leader of South Vietnam, and _____ was leader of communist North Vietnam
a. | Chang Ki Check - Ngo Dinh
Diem | c. | Ngo Dinh Diem - Ho Chi
Minh | b. | Mao - Ho Chi Minh | d. | Ho Chi Minh - Ngo Dinh Diem |
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Who was elected president in
1960?
a. | Richard
Nixon | c. | Dwight
Eisenhower | b. | John Kennedy | d. | Lyndon Johnson |
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What was the name of the
Alabama governor who stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent the integration of
the college?
a. | Bull
Conner | c. | Archie
Bunker | b. | George Wallace | d. | Stokley Carmichael |
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What was the name of the
Special Forces unit, started by President Kennedy, to fight the Communists in
Vietnam?
a. | The CIA | c. | Air One | b. | The Commando’s | d. | The Green Berets |
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The Kennedy advisors in the
White House were generally _____
a. | young | c. | middle aged | b. | minorities | d. | old |
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What was one reason the Cuban
invasion failed in 1961?
a. | Kennedy failed to provide promised
air cover | c. | Mexico helped
Fedel Castro repel the invision | b. | Castro got help from Russian troops | d. | The invision did not fail. It was a
success. |
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What happened on November 23,
1963
a. | The war in Vietnam
started | c. | Kennedy was
elected for a second term | b. | Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas | d. | The Tet Offensive |
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What was the purpose of the
march on Washington where Martin Luther King gave his famous, “I have a dream,”
speech?
a. | protest illegal
immigration | c. | show support for
civil rights bill in Congress | b. | show support for Brown v Education decision by the Supreme
Court | d. | demand for more jobs for black
people |
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When the rest of the nation and
President Kennedy saw the treatment of marchers in Montgomery, Alabama, what did he
do?
a. | requested that Congress passa a
Civil Rights Bill | c. | called out the
National Guard | b. | Arressted the Sherrif, Bull Conners | d. | nothing |
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For a year SNCC tried to
integrate Albany Georgia with thousands of young people being jailed. What was the
result.
a. | Black people migrated out of Albany
Georgia leaving only whites behind | c. | Albany was finally integrated | b. | Albany never did become integrated in the
60’s |
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What historic event happened in
Greensboro in the early sixties?
a. | Young black people engaged in sitins
at the all white lunch counters | c. | Young black students took over the town administration buildings by
force | b. | Black people refused to attend the movie theatres because of
segregation | d. | The “Little Rock Nine”
attended school for the first time |
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The people who saw the
Kennedy/Nixon debate in 1960 thought _____ won the debate; those who only heard the debate on radio
thought _____ won.
a. | Kennedy -
Nixon | c. | Johnson -
Kennedy | b. | Kennedy - Johnson | d. | Nixon - Kennedy |
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Montgomery Alabama was called
the most racist city in the South. How did Sheriff Bull Conner react to the freedom marchers when
they entered his city?
a. | protected them as they moved through
the city | c. | ignored
them | b. | enlisted the KKK to stop them | d. | beat them, jailed them, and used fire hoses and dogs on
them |
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How did most Americans feel
about the War in Vietnam in the fall of 63
a. | the Democrats wanted to impeach
Kennedy because of it | c. | there were
widespread demonstrations in support of the war | b. | there were widespread demonstrations against the
war | d. | they ignored
it |
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In the fall of 1963 Khrushchev
realized that Kennedy could be strong. What resulted from this new respect for
Kennedy.
a. | Nothing
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Treaty | b. | Khrushchev stopped calling Kennedy a
“chicken.” | d. | The U.S. pulled out of
Vietnam |
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The head of the Soviet Union
(Khrushchev) did not respect President Kennedy. Because of this lack of respect, Khrushchev .....
(pick three)
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What did they call the idea
that, if Vietnam fell to the Communists most of the rest of the countries in Southeast Asia
would also fall to the Communists?
a. | The Strategic Arms Limitation
Effect | c. | The Domino
Theory | b. | The Political Relativity Theory | d. | The Better Red than Dead
Syndrone |
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In 1961 Cuban patriots tried to
invade Cuba and liberate the island from Fidel Castro. What was the invasion
called?
a. | Bay of Pigs
Invasion | c. | Havana Harbor
invasion | b. | D Day | d. | C (cuba)
Day |
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