U.S History - 2nd 6 - Part 2

In 1963, the Birmingham, Alabama, police shocked the nation by using fire hoses and attack dogs in their response to civil rights protestors. Shortly after the violence in Birmingham, President John F. Kennedy declared it was time to–

• enforce voting restrictions that discriminate based on race.

• increase the government's commitment to civil rights.

• decrease the government's involvement in states' rights issues.

• limit access to the media by civil rights protestors.

As a result of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, segregation was outlawed in–

• religious institutions.

• public facilities.

• private universities.

• the armed forces.

Which U.S. action is Khrushchev (Soviet Leader) challenging in this excerpt?

• preventing Soviet advisors from meeting with revolutionaries in South America

• a ban on military aid to communist forces in North Vietnam

• a naval blockade to stop the shipment of missiles to Cuba

• air shipments of vital supplies to East Berlin

What contributed to the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Castro’s promise to restore democracy

• the U.S. secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey

• Castro’s promise to break ties with the Soviet Union

• the discovery that the missiles had been removed from Cuba

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

• to embarrass America

• to reduce Cold War tension

• to stop East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin

• to demonstrate the obvious successes of communism

President Kennedy’s desire to have options besides the use of nuclear warfare in a Cold War crisis was known as–

• quarantine.

• flexible response.

• brinkmanship.

• the military-industrial complex.

Which of the following was NOT one of the key components of President Johnson’s Great Society programs?

• fund public education

• protecting the environment

• war on poverty

• campaign finance reform

Medicare provided healthcare funding for _____ while Medicaid provided federal assistance for ___ .

• government employees / the elderly

• the elderly / poor people

• teachers and students / veterans

• poor people / the elderly

The Kennedy administration was pushed into a stronger stand on civil rights by–

• the threat of violence in northern cities.

• the pressure from foreign governments and the United Nations.

• the political advantages of supporting civil rights.

• the organized Civil Rights Movement, led by the Freedom Riders and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Freedom Riders were a group that–

• protested segregation by torching buses on segregated routes.

• were African Americans who sought to integrate public buses.

• sought to end segregation in facilities serving interstate bus passengers.

• were involved in sit-ins in local restaurants across the South to end segregation.