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LBJ (Great Society & Vietnam)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

Lyndon Johnson's plan for improving America was called the

a)

New Frontier

b)

Fair Deal

c)

Great Society

d)

New Deal

2.

This law eliminated discrimination in all public places. It was passed in 1964. It was the

a)

Economic Opportunity Act

b)

Civil Rights Act

c)

Voting Rights Act

d)

Medical Care Act

3.

This law created job training programs as well as starting the War on Poverty. It passed in 1964. It was called the

a)

Economic Opportunity Act

b)

Medical Care Act

c)

Elementary & Secondary Education Act

d)

Voting Rights Act

4.

Medicare & Medicaid were created to provide health care to which groups of people?

a)

black citizens

b)

elderly & poor

c)

returning veterans

d)

school children

5.

LBJ's domestic programs

a)

put the US into bankruptcy

b)

were the largest spending on social programs in US history

c)

kept many Americans from dying

d)

dropped the US from their status as the leading superpower

6.

LBJ defeated this man for election in 1964.

a)

George C. Wallace

b)

Richard Nixon

c)

Harry Byrd

d)

Barry Goldwater

7.

The document giving LBJ power to proceed with military action in Vietnam was the

a)

Tet Offensive

b)

Operation Rolling Thunder

c)

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

d)

Nixon Doctrine

8.

The communists fighting the US in the Vietnam Conflict were called the

a)

Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)

b)

Viet Cong

c)

Charlie

d)

NVA

9.

What was the main weapon used by the US military to fight the war in Vietnam?

a)

atomic weapons

b)

tanks

c)

helicopters

d)

armored jeeps

10.

The main type of fighting in Vietnam was

a)

trench warfare

b)

tank warfare

c)

large armies fighting for control of cities

d)

guerilla warfare

11.

Two new weapons created by the US to destroy jungles were

a)

flamethrowers & tanks

b)

missiles & hand grenades

c)

napalm & Agent Orange

d)

bazookas & jet planes

12.

The event in Vietnam that caused massive protest in the US against the war was

a)

Tonkin Gulf Incident

b)

Battle of the Ia Drang Valley

c)

Battle of Pleiku

d)

Tet Offensive

13.

The winner of the presidential election of 1968 was

a)

Hubert Humphrey

b)

George C. Wallace

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

14.

Nixon's plan for the war in Vietnam was to

a)

allow the South Vietnamese to take over the ground war

b)

keep the Chinese & Soviets from providing weapons to North Vietnam

c)

start peace talks in Paris

d)

eliminate Ho Chi Minh

15.

LBJ's massive bombing of North Vietnam was called

a)

Ia Drang

b)

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

c)

Operation Rolling Thunder

d)

Tet Offensive