12.2 JFK& LBJ

Which event was a CIA-sponsored invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro that failed miserably?

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Alliance for Progress
• Bay of Pigs
• Marshall Plan

This provided low-cost medical insurance to people over 65

• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Head Start
• VISTA

Reasons that Kennedy defeated Nixon included:

• Television Debates
• The Berlin Crisis
• His military policy
• Kennedy's Age

What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society?

• end poverty
• end drug trafficking
• end lynching
• fix the economy

Which of the following groups was intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs?

• Minorities and the poor
• White, middle-class families
• Farmers and laborers
• Businessmen

What kind of society did President Lyndon B. Johnson envision when he created the Great Society programs?

• one that ensured access to justice, education, decent housing, and health care for all Americans
• on that emphasized that all people are equal only in the eyes of God
• one in which extremism in the defense of liberty is encouraged 
• one that made separate schools for black and white children truly equal

Who had the advantage in the televised debates of 1960?

• Kennedy
• Nixon
• Johnson
• Eisenhower

What Great Society program provided pre-K education for disadvantaged children

• Job Corps
• Head Start
• HUD
• Mr Davis' Academy of Learning Good

What Great Society program provided affordable housing?

• HUD
• HBK
• NATO
• NAACP

What Great Society program provided job training to youths?

• Job Corps
• HUD
• Works Progress Administration
• Public Works Administration