CA 9 JFK and LBJ

President John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier program was most successful in…

• Establishing social welfare programs to end poverty.

• Passing civil rights legislation assuring fair housing and equal employment opportunities.

• Removing restrictions on the number of immigrants entering the United States.

• Expanding the United States space program.

“…And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

Which action by President Kennedy was most consistent with the challenge included in this statement?

• visiting the Berlin Wall

• Forming the Peace Corps

• Negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

• Supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion

“… For the war against poverty will not be won here in Washington. It must be won in the field,

in every private home, in every public office, from the courthouse to the White House.”

— President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, January 8, 1964

This statement expresses President Lyndon B. Johnson’s view that the…

• court system must be held accountable for poverty

• federal government is solely responsible for the war on poverty

• entire country must help fight poverty

• problem of poverty is easily solved.

One way in which the Square Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society are similar is that each was a…

• campaign to extend woman’s suffrage

• presidential program of reform.

• book written by a muckraking journalist.

• plan to promote big business..

Select ONE major goal of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society.

• end federally funded social programs to compensate for lower taxes.

• reform society through expanded government social welfare programs.

• reduce racial tensions in society by severely limiting immigration.

• make the states rather than the federal government responsible for supporting social programs.

What was President John F. Kennedy’s primary goal in establishing the Peace Corps?

• Military personnel would prevent wars by serving in dangerous regions.

• Young adults would promote U.S. values by serving around the world.

• Volunteers would promote education by teaching in rural U.S. schools.

• Volunteers would prevent hunger by assisting with harvests abroad.

“The participants in this week’s antidraft demonstration are students or young men…who are working within a coalition…which calls itself the Stop the Draft Week Committee…”

Douglas Robinson, New York Times, December 6, 1967

The demonstration described in this article was most likely prompted by —

• the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• renewed diplomatic relations with communist China

• escalated deployment of military forces to Vietnam

• the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

Protests against United States involvement in Vietnam grew in the late 1960s and early 1970s mainly because many Americans…

• opposed participation in conflicts involving the United Nations.

• feared nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

• objected to the drafting of college students.

• believed that the war was unjust.

The Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Nixon (1974) was significant because it directly…

• illustrated the superiority of the judicial branch

• weakened the principles of democracy.

• showed that the Court controlled the executive branch.

• limited the president’s power of executive privilege.

Nixon’s name for the many Americans who supported the government and longed for an end to the violence and turmoil of the 1960s was the ___________.

• detente

• silent majority

• hippies

• counterculture