JFK & LBJ Presidencies

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

Who assassinated JFK according to police?

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

Which event was a CIA-sponsored invasion that failed miserably?

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Alliance for Progress
• Bay of Pigs
• Marshall Plan

The U.S. met the Cuban Missile Crisis with which action?

• Naval quarantine of offensive weaponry
• Air strikes on missile sites on island
• Launching Bay of Pigs operation
• Presented case to UN for sanctions

The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to

• East Germans from fleeing to East Berlin
• West Germans from fleeing to East Berlin
• West Germans from fleeing to West Berlin
• Prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin

When and where was JFK assassinated?

• September 11th, 1963 in Montgomery, Alabama
• April 15,1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana
• November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
• September 7, 1945 in Houston, Texas

Who took over the presidency after JFK was assassinated?

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

Johnson's domestic program was called

• New Deal
• Square Deal
• Awesome Society
• Great Society

What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society?

• end poverty
• end drug trafficking
• end lynching
• fix the economy