1960s Politics

A major goal President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society was to--

• End poverty by expanding social welfare programs

• Reduce tension in society by limiting immigration

• Make the states rather than the federal government support the people

What was the reaction of many Americans to the Watergate Scandal?

• Discontent over antiwar and civil rights protest

• Americans began to distrust the government

• Confidence in the new presidential election

The main goal of President Richard Nixon's foreign policy of detente was to--

• Assure victory in Korea

• Improve relations with China and the Soviet Union

• Abolish NATO

What did Iranian student activists do when the Shah of Iran was treated in an American hospital?

• they terrorized American travelers in Europe

• they seized the American embassy and took American workers as hostages

• they staged an overthrow of the government

Why did gasoline (oil) prices spike (rise) during the 1970s and early 1980s?

• A natural disaster impeded offshore drilling for oil

• Conflicts in the Middle East with OPEC disrupted the distribution of oil

This amendment gained support based on the belief that people should have the right to vote if they are old enough to - 

• drive motorized vehicles

• serve as members of juries

• pay federal income taxes

• be drafted into the military

On January 22, 1964, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent Secretary of Defense McNamara a memorandum that included the following recommendations:

o Assign responsibilities for the total US program in Vietnam to the US military commander
o Commit additional US forces, as necessary, in support of the combat action within South Vietnam
o Commit US forces, as necessary, in direct actions against North Vietnam

What happened as a direct result of these recommendations?

• North Vietnamese leaders appealed for a ceasefire.

• US military involvement in Vietnam escalated.

• South Vietnamese leaders rejected military assistance

• Soviet ground troops were deployed to Vietnam.

The domino theory, which provided the basis for US entry into the Vietnam War, was the belief that intervention was necessary to prevent-

• the expansion of communism across Southeast Asia

• the inclusion of Taiwan in the Warsaw Pact

• the loss of UN military bases in Asia

• the rise of China as a dominant economic power

Which of these best explains why worldwide reactions to US involvement in Vietnam grew increasingly hostile during the late 1960s and the early 1970s?

• The United States was viewed as appeasing a brutal dictator.

• The United States demanded the unconditional surrender of Ho Chi Minh.

• The United States was viewed as an aggressor invading an underdeveloped nation.

• The United States ignored a United Nations Security Council resolution to cease hostilities.

What was the primary objective of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• A) To end segregation in public places and ban employment discrimination

• B) To provide free education to all American citizens

• C) To establish a new federal tax system

• D) To promote the United States' space exploration program