SSUSH21 GSE

In 1962 _______________ sent missiles to ______________.

• Germany, Cuba
• Cuba, The U.S.
• The Soviets, Cuba
• Cuba, Japan

Who was president of the U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• FDR
   (Franklin Roosevelt)
• JFK
   (John F. Kennedy)
• LBJ
  (Lyndon B. Johnson)
• RWR
  (Ronald  Reagan)

The agreement between the US and the Soviet Union was that they would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US did what?

• Take US missiles out of Cuba

• Promised never to attack Cuba

• Promised to not attack the Soviet Union

• Take missiles out of the Soviet Union

What disastrous event preceded (went before) the Cuban Missile crisis and directly influenced it?

• The Korean War

• The Vietnam Conflict

• The Bay of Pigs invasion

• The assassination of John F. Kennedy

The foreign policy idea that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to Communism, others around it would follow - led to Vietnam

• Domino Theory

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

This resolution gave President Johnson a "blank check" to do whatever he wanted in Vietnam

• My Lai

• Vietnamization

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Ho Chi Minh Trail

Of the following four historical figures, three were assassinated in the 1960's. Who survived?

• Robert Kennedy

• John F. Kennedy

• Martin Luther King

• Lyndon B. Johnson

The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 launched the

• War on Drugs

• Civil Rights Movement

• War on Poverty

• Voting Rights Act

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women

• made it illegal for black voters to be disenfranchised through unfair voting registration laws

• gave guaranteed health care to every American over the age of 65

• started the Civil Rights Movement

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

• outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women

• made it illegal for black voters to be disenfranchised through unfair voting registration laws

• made it illegal for blacks to be discriminated against in schools, places of work, and facilities that serve the general public

• started the Civil Rights Movement