Kennedy/Johnson Eras

Which of the following resulted from the Cuban missile crisis?

• The Soviets were allowed to keep existing missiles in Cuba but could not increase the number of missiles.

• The United States agreed to withdraw from Berlin in exchange for Soviet withdrawal from Cuba.

• The United States succeeded in eliminating all communist influence from the Western Hemisphere.

• The Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States not to attack Fidel Castro.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society included all of the following EXCEPT

• a universal health care program

• federal funds to improve the nation’s inner-city districts

• early childhood education programs

• job training programs

The major objective of the antipoverty programs of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was to

• break the cycle of poverty among poor people through education and job training

• transfer the federal government’s responsibility for welfare back to the states

• simplify welfare by replacing job programs with cash grants for the poor

• build a socialist society in the United States

Michael Harrington’s The Other America most directly inspired support for

• creation of the Environmental Protection Agency

• desegregation of public schools

• Great Society programs

• termination of American Indian reservations

Which of the following is true of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 ?

• It banned immigration from communist-controlled countries into the United States.

• It eliminated the quotas based on national origins adopted in the 1920s.

• It contributed to a rise in the percent of immigrants from Western European countries.

• It was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

“Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’”

President John Kennedy, speech in West Berlin, West Germany, 1963

Kennedy’s views expressed in the excerpt best reflect a foreign policy built around

• free trade

• containment of communism

• peacekeeping interventions

• arms control negotiations

According to the graph above, the largest decrease in the percent of Americans living below the poverty line accompanied which of the following federal policy initiatives?

• The New Deal

• The Fair Deal

• The Great Society

• The New Frontier

• Dragons

Which of the following did the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam have in common in the late 1960s?

• They advocated ending segregation in the North rather than the South.

• They sought affiliation with the American Communist Party.

• They emphasized developing a greater sense of Black nationalism and solidarity.

• They advocated nonviolent means to achieve their goals.

Which of the following was an achievement of the John F. Kennedy administration?

• Passage of civil rights legislation

• Passage of bills to create health insurance for the aged and to increase aid to education

• Extension of diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China

• Passage of the Alliance for Progress to provide economic aid for Latin America

“We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.

“When we were kids, the United States was the wealthiest and strongest country in the world; the only one with the atom bomb, the least scarred by modern war, an initiator of the United Nations....

“As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events too troubling to dismiss....

“The conventional moral terms of the age, the politician moralities—‘free world,’ ‘people’s democracies’ reflect realities poorly, if at all, and seem to function more as ruling myths than as descriptive principles....

“The bridge to political power, though, will be built through genuine cooperation, locally, nationally, and internationally, between a new left of young people, and an awakening community of allies.”

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Port Huron Statement, 1962

Which of the following post-1945 developments contributed most strongly to the discomfort that members of SDS felt?

• The efforts of Congress to adopt legislation to deal with domestic social problems

• The disillusionment with United States domestic values and Cold War events

• The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision on school desegregation

• The support for collective security through international organizations