JFK/LBJ Civil Rights Test Review

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 failed invasion of Cuba embarrassed JFK & led to his distrust of the CIA?

• Bay of Pigs
• D-Day
• Operation Havana
• Cuban Offensive

What health insurance program was created to help the elderly?

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

What was JFK's program to develop economic cooperation between U.S. & Latin America?

• Alliance for Progress
• Green Peace
• Peace Corps
• Army Corps of Engineers

1964 Republican nominee for president; founder of the modern Conservative movement

• Richard Nixon
• Barry Goldwater
• Jimmy Carter
• Robert Kennedy

Who was the Democratic nominee for president in the election of 1960?

• John Kennedy
• Robert Kennedy
• Lyndon Johnson
• Richard Nixon

Who was the Republican nominee for president in the election of 1960?

• Richard Nixon
• John Kennedy
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Lyndon Johnson

What was unique about the election of 1960 (specifically the debates)?

• They were on radio
• They were on TV
• They were live on Instagram
• They were held in foreign countries