1960s

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 was one of JFK's plans that failed during his presidency?

• Space Program
• Cuban missile crisis
• Civil Rights movement
• Bay of Pigs

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

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

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

Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam?

• Ho Chi Minh
• Mao Zedong
• Ngo Dien Diem
• Hideki Tojo