Study Tool Great Society

Which of these events was the closest the United States and the Soviet Union actually came to fighting each other during the Cold War?

• Suez Crisis, 1956

• Bay of Pigs, 1961

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

• Gulf of Tonkin, 1964

President’s Kennedy’s main strategy in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis was

• Sending more troops to face communist forces on the 17th parallel

• Conducting secret diplomacy without telling the public about the treat

• Ordering the construction of new Jupiter missiles in Turkey

• Imposing a naval blockade around Cuba until the crisis was resolved

One effect of the Cuban Missile Crisis was

• An acceleration of the arms race

• The end of the Cold War

• The increase of nuclear superior by the U.S.S.R.

• Rejection of the Limited Test Ban Treaty

Kennedy decided to build more missiles (a policy of mutually assured destruction) because

• The Secretary of Defense advised him to do so.

• During the campaign, Nixon had accused him of being soft on the Soviets

• He believed the Soviets could be deterred if the United States had enough missiles to survives a first strike attack

• He wanted the United States to be the first country to land an astronaut on the moon

Khrushchev ordered Soviet missiles to be removed from Cuba in return for an American pledge

• Not on invade Cuba

• To resume purchasing Cuban sugar

• Not to support the South Vietnamese

• To sign the test ban treaty

Which of the following brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war?

• the Cuban missile crisis

• the Panamanian riot

• the signing of a Limited Test Ban Treaty

• the construction of the Berlin Wall

His handling of which of the following improved President Kennedy’s prestige?

• the Bay of Pigs invasion

• the Cuban missile crises

• the Berlin crisis

• a rebellion in the Dominican Republic

The immigration policies in place since the 1960s have

• reinforced the population patterns reflected in the laws of the 1920s.

• greatly increased ethnic diversity in American society.

• encouraged immigration from Western European countries.

• discouraged immigration

The passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 resulted in

• the deportation of large numbers of political refugees

• an increase in the number of Eastern European immigrants

• the elimination of an immigration policy based on national origin quotas

• an increase in the deportation of Asian immigrants.

"This administration... declares unconditional war on poverty in America, and I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort." —L.B.J. 1964

The program President Lyndon B. Johnson created to wage his unconditional war on poverty was the

• Alliance for Progress

• Fair Deal

• Great Society

• New Deal