WorksheetsAH Era of Social Change
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
President Kennedy’s legislative program, which included proposals to provide medical care for the elderly, to rebuild blighted urban areas, to aid education, to bolster the national defense, to increase international aid, and to expand the space program.
a)
New Deal
b)
Monroe Doctrine
c)
Truman Doctrine
d)
New Frontier
2.
The authority to act that an elected official receives from the voters who elected him or her.
a)
armistice
b)
law
c)
Mandate
d)
Reformation
3.
An agency established in 1961 to provide volunteer assistance to developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
a)
Peace Corps
b)
feminism
c)
NAACP
d)
Central Powers
4.
A group, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald alone was responsible for it.
a)
Vietnamization
b)
Warren Commission
c)
FBI
d)
HUAC
5.
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the United States.
a)
New Deal
b)
Great Society
c)
New Frontier
d)
Triple Alliance
6.
A federal program, established in 1965, that provides hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance to Americans aged 65 and over.
a)
Medicaid
b)
prohibition
c)
mandate
d)
Medicare
7.
A program, established in 1965, that provides health insurance for people on welfare.
a)
Medicare
b)
mandate
c)
Medicaid
d)
militarism
8.
A law that increased the number of immigrants allowed to settle in the United States.
a)
Immigration Act of 1965
b)
Amendment 14
c)
Immigration Act of 1924
d)
Immigration Act of 1882
9.
an organization of Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups that between 1946 and 1954 fought for Vietnamese independence from the French.
a)
Vietminh
b)
Vietcong
c)
Vietnamization
d)
Central Powers
10.
the South Vietnamese Communists who, with North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
a)
Vietminh
b)
Vietcong
c)
Vietnamization
d)
prohibition
11.
a network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam.
a)
Kim Jong-Il Trail
b)
Kim Il Sung Trail
c)
Ho Chi Minh Trail
d)
Mao Zedong Trail
12.
a resolution adopted by Congress in 1964, giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam.
a)
Gulf of Mexio Resolution
b)
Bay of Pigs
c)
Gulf Coast Resolution
d)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
13.
a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968.
a)
Western Front
b)
Tet Defensive
c)
Vietnamization
d)
Tet Offensive
14.
President Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces.
a)
Vietminh
b)
Vietcong
c)
Vietnamization
d)
New Frontier
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