JFK

Who did JFK defeat to win the 1960 Election?

• Richard Nixon
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Lyndon Johnson
• Harry Truman

The factor that may have most helped JFK win the Election of 1960 was

• He was Catholic
• He looked good during the TV debates
• He was known to be the most experienced candidate
• He was friendly with Fidel Castro

What religion was President John F. Kennedy, which caused Americans to worry 

• Roman Catholic 
• Jew
• Protestant 
• Hindu 

What was one of JFK's plans that failed during his presidency?

• Space Program
• Cuban missile crisis
• Civil Rights movement
• Bay of Pigs

Who assassinated JFK according to police?

• The mafia
• Fidel Castro
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Nikita Khrushchev

What is the line in Kennedy's inaugural address he is famous for?

• Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
• I walk slowly, but I never walk backward
• The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does nothing
• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love  with liberty

President Kennedy's plan aimed at improving the economy, fighting racial discrimination, and exploring space

• Peace Corps

• New Frontier

• Great Society

• Bay of Pigs

Created by JFK to create volunteers who help third world nations and prevent the spread of communism by getting rid of poverty, Africa, Asia, and Latin America

• Peace Corps

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Warren Commission

• CORE

Failed CIA operation in April 1961 to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba using Cuban exiles

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• CORE

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• Bay of Pigs

The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Airlift

• Spanish-American War