JFK and LBJ Test

The essential purpose of President Kennedy's promise to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s was to

• restore American prestige in the space race damaged by the Soviets' Sputnik.

• develop the possibility of deploying American weapons in outer space.

• provide investments and jobs in the key states of Texas and Florida.

The Alliance for Progress was intended to improve economic growth and democratic reforms in

• Western Europe

• Latin America

• Southeast Asia.

The economic and political results of John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress in Latin America were

• weakened by the Kennedy administration's harsh policies toward Cuba

• generally disappointing

• an incentive for growing Soviet intervention in the region

The Bay of Pigs invasion failed when

• the anti-Castro exiles were defeated by the Cuban military

• the Soviet Union intervened to protect the Castro government

• anti-Castro Cubans in Florida refused to support the effort

When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered

• a naval quarantine of that island.

• the resuming of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons

• the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs

The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except

• a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba

• U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo

• withdrawal of U.S. missiles in Turkey

President Kennedy's alleged assassin was

• Jack Ruby

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• an agent of Fidel Castr

President Johnson proved to be much more successful than President Kennedy at

• getting his legislation passed by Congress

• reducing America's overseas commitments

• gaining the admiration and support of the media

President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the

• Fair Deal

• New Deal

• Great Society

Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their

• fear of the Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater

• loyalty to the Kennedy legacy.

• All of these