The 1960s

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) provided congressional support for

• withdrawing from the United Nations
• expanding the Alliance for Progress
• escalating military action in Vietnam

“. . . With America’s sons in the fields far away, ...with our hopes and the world’s hopes for peace in the balance every day"  The decision announced in this speech was based primarily on the

• assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
• outbreak of terrorist attacks around the world
• involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War

"Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. "

• ordering a naval quarantine of Cuba
• breaking off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
• asking the United Nations to stop grain shipments to the Soviet Union

The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when

• Cuba became a capitalist nation 
• Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met with President Kennedy
• the Soviet Union withdrew its missiles from Cuba

Which development is most closely associated with the belief in the domino theory?

• military involvement in Vietnam
• construction of the Berlin Wall
• end of the Korean War

The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 missile crisis are conflicts directly related to U.S. relations with which two nations?

• Cuba and the Soviet Union
• China and Japan
• North and South Korea

“Batista Driven from Power”
“Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails”
“U-2 Planes Reveal Soviet Missiles”
These headlines refer to the relationship between the United States and

• Canada
• Cuba
• Mexico

"...We chose to go to the moon" -JFK. What was the main purpose of this speech?

• surpassing the Soviet Union in the space race
• controlling the spread of nuclear weapons
• establishing a missile defense system on the Moon

"ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. . . .”
What does this statement support?

• creation of the Marshall Plan
• formation of the Peace Corps
• removal of United States troops from Korea

In 1965, Congress established Medicare to

•  provide health care to the elderly
• grant scholarships to medical students
• establish universal health care