The Kennedy and Johnson Years (CH.19) Test Review

What made the first 1960 presidential debate historical?

• The first debate to ever have three candidates on the same stage

• They were the first televised presidential debates

• Nixon walked off the stage due to poor health from the flu

• The power went out in the auditorium

What was the name of the failed 1961 invasion of Cuba?

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Crisis

• Project Mercury

• The Bay of Pigs

What was the name of the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba?

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Berlin Crisis

• Project Mercury

Which country put the first person into orbit?

• United States

• China

• Soviet Union

• Japan

Richard Nixon was born into a rich family from Boston, Massachusetts

• True

• False

Nikita Khrushchev made the order to put up the Berlin Wall to separate East and West Berlin

• True

• False

The Warren Commission investigated the assassination of President Kennedy

• True

• False

Kennedy was said to be the winner of the first presidential debate against Nixon

• True

• False

The Challenger was the spacecraft that took Neil Armstrong to space

• True

• False

President Kennedy was assassinated in Houston, Texas

• True

• False