JFK / LBJ Intro Quiz

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 was JFK's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Naval blockade of Cuba
• invade Cuba
• bomb U.S.S.R.
• do nothing

What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society?

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

Soviet missiles found here almost caused WWIII

• Cuba
• Turkey
• East Berlin
• Dominican Republican

What health insurance program was created to help the elderly?

• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Social Security
• G.I. Bill

When and where was JFK assassinated?

• September 11th, 1963 in Montgomery, Alabama
• April 15,1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana
• November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
• September 7, 1945 in Houston, Texas