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Worksheets1960's Quiz
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 13mins
How did JFK respond to the news that the Soviets had placed nuclear weapon installations in Cuba?
Asking the United Nations to approve economic sanctions for Cuba
Blockading ships from entering or exiting Cuba
Closing the US border
Asking Congress to declare war on Cuba
The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)
Havana Uprising
Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)
Brown v. Board of Education overruled which prior Supreme Court precedent?
Texas v. Johnson
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
What were people protesting at Kent State?
Nuclear Bombs
Civil Rights
President Nixon
Vietnam War
Detente was about:
Easing tensions between the US and USSR
Increasing tensions between the US and USSR
Punishing the USSR
Containing the USSR
____________ was the belief that if Vietnam became communist then other countries would too.
Domino Theory
Yahtzee Theory
Poker Theory
Jenga Theory
What is the name of Lyndon B. Johnson's program designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice?
Make American Great Again
The Great Society
The Vietnam War
The gap between what the gov’t was saying & the reality of the Vietnam War is called?
956 Gap
LBJ Gap
Credibility Gap
Which amendment lowered the voting age to 18 years old?
23th
24th
25th
26th
Which act limited a president's ability to send troops without a declaration of war?
Homestead Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
War Powers Act
She was a co-founder of the United Farm Workers, also led many boycotts and successfully organized strikes and labor so farm workers got better pay
Martha Cotera
Dolores Huerta
Emma Tenayuca
Sandra Cisneros
Co-founder of the United Farm Workers; he led the grape pickers march in California, organized agricultural boycotts and was inspired by Gandhi
Dr. Hector Garcia
Cesar Chavez
Ruben Salazar
Reies Lopez Tijerina
What was the Chicano Mural Movement?
The Chicano Mural Movement was a cultural and political movement that produced art depicting the history and identity of Mexican Americans.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed what type of tests?
Drivers Tests
Poll Tests
Literacy Tests
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 followed up on the 1964 legislation. It banned discriminatory practices in...
Education
Voting
Housing
