1963-1980 (LBJ, Nixon, Carter)

This president created the Great Society Programs, but the War in Vietnam ruined his efforts to eliminate poverty in America.

• John F Kennedy

• Lyndon Johnson

• George Bush Sr.

What book inspired President Lyndon Johnson to launch a War on Poverty in 1963-68

• How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

• The Other America by Michael Harrington

LBJ's Great Society was modeled after FDR's plan to solve the problems of the Great Depression.

FDR's plan was called

• The Square Deal

• The New Freedom

• The New Deal

A difference between LBJ's Great Society and FDR's New Deal was that the New Deal did NOT address which of the following?

Check the two correct answers

• Civil Rights

• aid to the elderly

• aid to the poor

• Health Insurance - Medicaid and Medicare

FDR created FERA and job programs like the WPA during the Great Depression to help the poor.

In similar fashion. LBJ helped the poor by creating which two programs?

• The Office of Economic Opportunity.

• Food Stamps and Welfare

• The Taft Hartley Act

Answer explanation

Social Security was created by FDR's New Deal in the 1930s.

What areas did LBJ address in his Great Society Programs?

• $ to improve education

• $ for urban renewal

• Medicare health insurance for the elderly

• landmark Civil Rights laws to end segregation and restore voting rights of African Americans

LBJ helped the cause of Civil Rights by doing three which of the following?

Which 3

• signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - outlawing segregation

• signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - banning literacy tests

• appointing Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court

• making MLK's birthday a national holiday

Answer explanation

Ronald Reagan made MLK's birthday a national holiday.

This VC and NVA attack in 1968 was a turning point because it eroded public support for the Vietnam War

• The Tet Offensive

• D Day

• Operation Torch

These two leaders were both assassinated in 1968.

• Ronald Reagan

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Robert Kennedy

Answer explanation

MLK was shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis. RFK was shot and killed in a hotel kitchen after having just won the California primary. He was shot by an Arab named Sirhan Sirhan who did not like Kennedy's support for Israel.

Which 1960s movement is incorrectly matched to the group/cause

• The Feminine Mystique/NOW - The Feminist Movement

• SDS - The Port Huron Statement

• Counterculture Movement - rejection of materialism/conformity

• The Stonewall Riot - Civil Rights

Answer explanation

The Stonewall riots sparked the Gay Liberation Movement.