JFK and the 1960's

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

Who assassinated JFK according to police?

• The mafia
• Fidel Castro
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Nikita Khrushchev

What is the line in Kennedy's inaugural address he is famous for?

• Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
• I walk slowly, but I never walk backward
• The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does nothing
• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love  with liberty

The goal of the Bay of Pigs incident was

• Overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev
• Removal of nuclear missile sites
• Protection of communism in Europe
• Overthrow of Fidel Castro

The Berlin Wall was built around

• East Berlin to separate from West Berlin
• Berlin to separate from East Germany
• West Berlin to separate from East Germany
• Berlin to separate from West Germany

Which of the following was an example of Kennedy's New Frontier program?

• Forceful containment of communism
• Peace Corps
• Military interventions in Latin America to protect democracies
• Developing greater nuclear capabilities

Who took over the presidency after JFK was assassinated?

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

Soviet missiles found here almost caused WWIII

• Cuba
• Turkey
• East Berlin
• Dominican Republican