1960s Foreign and Domestic Policy

Names of the Great Society Programs that provide health insurance to the elderly and covers low income people with medical needs?

• HUD and CPB
• VISTA and Job Corps
• NEA and SeniorCare
• Medicare and Medicaid

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

Some critics complained that the Great Society programs

• gave the rich too many tax breaks

• expanded the federal government too much

• paid too little attention to health care

• favored rural over urban citizens

Which of the following positions on today’s society would the President likely agree?

• If we are to achieve a Great Society we have to make progress in making sure that all Americans share in the wealth our society produces
• People living in poverty should not expect any help in trying to improve their economic situation
• A persons educational level is not related to their economic success
• We have achieved a Great Society

What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society?

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

This law allowed African-Americans to vote for the first time since the Reconstruction.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• The 13th Amendment -- Abolishes slavery

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Civil War Reconstruction Act of 1865

How did Kennedy learn of the missiles on Cuba?

• An American spyplane took photographs of missile sites

• Khrushchev boasted about the new missiles to Kennedy

• Khrushchev boasted about the new missiles to Kennedy whilst drunk... by mistake

• Communications between Castro and Khrushchev were intercepted by the USA

What did Kennedy call his naval blockade of Cuba?

• A buffer

• A quarantine

• A blockade... duh

• A sanitation bubble

What was the outcome of the crisis?

• The removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba; no US invasion of Cuba; public removal of US missiles from Turkey

• The removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba; no US invasion of Cuba; secret removal of US missiles from Turkey

• nuclear war - everyone died