1960s

During the 1960s, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) used sit-ins primarily to

• protest high college tuition costs

• promote passage of clean air laws

• support voting rights for 18-year-old citizens

• challenge racially segregated public facilities

What was a major result of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962?

• Fidel Castro was removed from power.

• Steps were taken to relax Cold War tensions. (Nuclear Test Ban Treaty)

• United Nations forces invaded Cuba.

• Trade between Cuba and the United States increased

“No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” — Section 2, Voting Rights Act of 1965

The specific goal stated in this section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to

• expand the use of property qualifications (

• establish voter qualifications such as literacy tests

• stop fraudulent voting in large cities

• remove barriers to voting based on racial background

Which event during the civil rights movement is most closely associated with President Dwight Eisenhower?

• granting permission for the March on

  Washington

• urging the Brooklyn Dodgers to sign Jackie

  Robinson

• supporting the sit-ins in Greensboro, North

  Carolina

• using federal troops to integrate schools in

  Little Rock, Arkansas

The Cuban missile crisis was effectively ended when the

• Soviet Union agreed to withdraw weapons from Cuba

• Bay of Pigs invasion removed Fidel Castro from power

• Cuban authorities signed new trade agreements with the United States

• United States announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress

A goal of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to

• eliminate discrimination in housing

• implement job-training programs

• increase equal rights for African Americans

• end barriers to voting faced by African American

Which United States foreign policy action best illustrates the concept of containment?

• adopting the Truman Doctrine in 1947

• ratifying the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963

• returning control of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1978

• granting diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China in 1979

Lunch counter sit-ins and the actions of freedom riders are examples of

• steps taken in support of the Americans with Disabilities Act

• programs dealing with affirmative action

• violent acts by the Black Panthers (

• nonviolent attempts to oppose segregation

One similarity between the laws being challenged in the United States Supreme Court cases of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Korematsu v. United States (1944) is that

• specific groups of people were being targeted based on race or ethnicity

• state laws were declared unconstitutional

• immigrants were relocated to prison camps

• federal laws segregating public transportation were upheld

“Eisenhower Sends U.S. Troops to Protect Lebanon” “Kennedy Places Quarantine on Shipment of Soviet Missiles to Cuba” “Johnson Increases U.S. Troop Strength in Vietnam by 125,000”

Which statement about the Cold War is illustrated by these headlines?

• Rivalries between the superpowers often involved conflicts in other nations.

• United States military support was most often deployed in Europe. (

• Communist forces were frequently victorious in Asia.

• Summit talks frequently succeeded in limiting international tensions.