1960s Quiz

What did Kennedy's military policy of flexible response mean?

• the U.S. would cut defense spending

• the U.S. military would prepare to use nuclear weapons in an threatening situation

• the U.S. would prepare conventional military responses rather than focus on nuclear weapons

• the U.S. would continue Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation

(a)   led a revolution in Cuba in 1959 to overthrow brutal Batista dictatorship and became a pro Soviet Communist Nation

• Hugo Chavez
• Fulgencio Batista
• Ferdinand Franco
• Fidel Castro

Plan to overthrow Castro which became an embarrassment for Kennedy when our CIA Operatives were captured by Fidel Castro's government was known as _____

The Event which placed the United States and USSR at the brink of War over Missiles in Cuba is known as:

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cuban Blockade

• League of Nations

• Treaty of Versailles

What of the following is true about the Berlin Wall?

• It was built to stop the spread of communism

• It was built to stop people from leaving the Eastern Block of Germany

• It was built to keep people from Eastern Germany out of Western Germany

• It was built to make Germany Great again

President Johnson's plan to create opportunities for all Americans and to bring and end to Poverty in America

• Space Race

• New Frontier

• Great Society

• Medicare

This Great Society program provided health insurance for senior citizens

• Medicare

• Medicaid

• Head Start

• Job Corps

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal
• African Americans began to play professional sports
• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed blacks to run for public office
• It ended segregation in schools
• It made poll taxes illegal