CH28 (JFK and LBJ)

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 abolished the National Origins Act as well as racial quotas of immigrants?

• Immigration Act of 1965
• Open Door Act of 1965
• Quota Restriction Act of 1965
• Naturalization Act of 1965

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 took over the presidency after JFK was assassinated?

• Lyndon B Johnson
• Leonard Neemoy
• Abraham Lincoln
• John F Kennedy

This established that separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional.

• Brown v Board of Education

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Roe v Wade

• Plessy v Ferguson