1960s Quiz

Medicare, a federal program established for Americans 65 and over, was intended to provide

• health insurance

• housing

• transportation

• education

Which of the following groups was intended to benefit the MOST from the Great Society programs?

• Minorities and the poor of all races

• White, middle-class families

• farmers and laborers

• Businesses

The immigration Act of 1965

• ended the previous quotas on immigration that discriminated against Asians, Africans, and Hispanics

• ended immigration to the U.S. from Eastern Europe

• resulted in new regulations on the industries of America

• brought about Medicare and Medicaid

This program involved volunteers travelling to help developing nations and promote peace and friendship.

•   Peace Corps

•   Alliance for Progress

•   Warren Commission

•   Word Bill of Rights

What was the main purpose of the flexible response military strategy?

•   to enable the U.S. to fight limited wars where needed in the world

•   to decrease the number of nuclear weapons

•   to reduce defense spending

•   to prepare for the Bay of Pigs Invasion

What contributed to the end of the Cuban missile crisis?

•   America's secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey

•   the discovery that the missiles had been removed

•   Castro's promise to break with the Soviet Union

•   Castro's promise to restore democracy

What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?

•   to stop East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin

•   to reduce Cold War tensions

•   to demonstrate the success of communism

•   to embarrass America

The fear that one country falling to communist influence would lead to other nearby nations also becoming communist was known as

•   The Domino Theory

•   the communism theory

•   the Truman Doctrine

•   The New Deal

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968 attempting to

•   make the U.S. and USSR not give nuclear weapons to other nations and make non-nuclear nations promise to not make nuclear weapons

•   foce the Soviet Union to stop building nuclear weapons

•   increase the number of nuclear weapons for global protection

•   encourage the nuclear development of third world nations to improve their economies.

  Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring

•   argued that the growing use of pesticides was doing tremendous harm to the environment

•   said that an Earth Day celebration must be created

•   created the Clean Air Act

•   argued for less regulations on industry