WorksheetsLBJ (Great Society & Vietnam)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Lyndon Johnson's plan for improving America was called the
New Frontier
Fair Deal
Great Society
New Deal
This law eliminated discrimination in all public places. It was passed in 1964. It was the
Economic Opportunity Act
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Medical Care Act
This law created job training programs as well as starting the War on Poverty. It passed in 1964. It was called the
Economic Opportunity Act
Medical Care Act
Elementary & Secondary Education Act
Voting Rights Act
Medicare & Medicaid were created to provide health care to which groups of people?
black citizens
elderly & poor
returning veterans
school children
LBJ's domestic programs
put the US into bankruptcy
were the largest spending on social programs in US history
kept many Americans from dying
dropped the US from their status as the leading superpower
LBJ defeated this man for election in 1964.
George C. Wallace
Richard Nixon
Harry Byrd
Barry Goldwater
The document giving LBJ power to proceed with military action in Vietnam was the
Tet Offensive
Operation Rolling Thunder
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Nixon Doctrine
The communists fighting the US in the Vietnam Conflict were called the
Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)
Viet Cong
Charlie
NVA
What was the main weapon used by the US military to fight the war in Vietnam?
atomic weapons
tanks
helicopters
armored jeeps
The main type of fighting in Vietnam was
trench warfare
tank warfare
large armies fighting for control of cities
guerilla warfare
Two new weapons created by the US to destroy jungles were
flamethrowers & tanks
missiles & hand grenades
napalm & Agent Orange
bazookas & jet planes
The event in Vietnam that caused massive protest in the US against the war was
Tonkin Gulf Incident
Battle of the Ia Drang Valley
Battle of Pleiku
Tet Offensive
The winner of the presidential election of 1968 was
Hubert Humphrey
George C. Wallace
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nixon's plan for the war in Vietnam was to
allow the South Vietnamese to take over the ground war
keep the Chinese & Soviets from providing weapons to North Vietnam
start peace talks in Paris
eliminate Ho Chi Minh
LBJ's massive bombing of North Vietnam was called
Ia Drang
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Operation Rolling Thunder
Tet Offensive
