Ch. 24 New Frontier & Great Society

The Supreme Court enacted the Fourteenth Amendment to

• apply rights to lawyers.

• secure the right to retry citizens for crimes committed.

• make sure everyone must pay for a lawyer.

• apply the Bill of Rights to the states.

Which event contributed to Nikita Khrushchev’s fall from power in 1964?

• A) President Kennedy’s assassination

• B) the Bay of Pigs invasion

• C) the building of the Berlin Wall

• D) the Cuban Missile Crisis

President Kennedy pushed for a buildup of conventional troops and weapons that would allow the United States to fight a limited style of warfare with

• a flexible response

• a rigid response

• nuclear threats

• nuclear weapons

The right to remain silent is one part of an individual’s

• Gideon rights.

• Mapp rights.

• Miranda rights.

• Wainwright rights.

In the agreement ending the Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev promised to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy's public promise. What was Kennedy's public promise?

• not to invade Cuba.

• to remove American missiles from Alaska near the Soviet Union.

• to remove American missiles from China on the Soviet border.

• to stop testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere.

Kennedy’s “flexible response” plan called for

• a buildup of nuclear weapons.

• a buildup of conventional weapons.

• a reduction of military bases.

• a reduction of the Special Forces.

On April 17, 1961, armed Cuban exiles landed on the south coast of Cuba at

• Havana

• New Delhi

• Santiago de Cuba

• the Bay of Pigs

The purpose of the Warren Commission was to investigate

• allegations of a conspiracy in Kennedy’s assassination.

• the relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union.

• the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• who was responsible for the Bay of Pigs.

During the space race, Kennedy’s goal for America was to be the first to

• build a space station.

• land a man on the moon.

• put a man into orbit.

• put a man into space.

The Office of Economic Opportunity was a major part of Johnson’s

• health care reform program.

• education reform program.

• war on poverty.

• war on crime.