2021 1960s TEST

Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• James Gregory

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Edwardo Obstinado

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

An attempt by the Soviet Union in 1962 to place nuclear missiles in Cuba directed toward the United States.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• Detente

The counterculture movement of the 1960s valued what?

• war and peace
• drugs and violence
• peace and love
• freedom and poverty

Which of the following groups rejected the materialism and work ethic of older generations?

• the Beatles 
• hippies
• the Establishment 
• Taller Boricua 

Belief that if one country in a region fell to Communism all other countries in the area would fall is called...

• containment

• Geneva Accords

• domino theory

• the Wall

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Lyndon Johnson's plan for improving America was called the

• New Frontier

• Fair Deal

• Great Society

• New Deal

LBJ's domestic programs

• put the US into bankruptcy

• were the largest spending on social programs in US history

• kept many Americans from dying

• dropped the US from their status as the leading superpower

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

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard." President Kennedy 1962

• surpass the Soviet Union in the Space Race

• blow the moon

• create a colony on the moon

• determine the moon is made of cheese