Vietnam and JFK/LBJ Quiz

Which of these best describes the Warren Court's rulings?

• supported individual civil liberties

• strengthened the federal government

• they tried to stay out of controversy

• reflected conservative values

Which of the following was a major part of Johnson’s Great Society?

• creation of the Peace Corps

• higher taxes on the wealthy

• Medicare and Medicaid

• cuts to social security

What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis

• The US overthrew the Cuban govenrment

• The US withdrew its missiles from Turkey and Italy and the USSR withdrew their missiles from Cuba

• The US set up missile sites in Cuba

• Fidel Castro fought off USSR intervention in his country

What was the intent of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 passed under the Johnson Administration?

• Increase the number of immigrants into the US

• Reduce the number of immigrants into the US

What was the importance of the television in the 1960 Election?

• showed that civil rights would be an important issue

• people cared more about the candidates' looks than their policy

• fewer people had TVs in their homes this year

• television was more powerful than radio

What was the result of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?

• relations between the US and USSR worsened

• the USSR ended all nuclear testing

• the US and USSR stopped communicating

• nearly 40 countries agreed to end above ground nuclear testing

What was Kennedy's number 1 priority when it came to his domestic policy?

• poverty

• communism

• crime

• Republicans

The Bay of Pigs was an attempt to overthrow who?

• Nikita Kruschev

• Fidel Castro

• the Kennedy Administration

• Lee Harvey Oswald

Why was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution controversial?

• expanded the President's war powers

• Allowed the US to endlessly bomb the USSR

• gave Nixon the ability to invade Vietnam

• sent economic aid to South Vietnam

Why was the fall of Dien Bien Phu significant?

• ended Chinese occupation of Vietnam

• the Vietcong fell to the South Vietnamese

• Ho Chi Minh became the unchallenged leader of all of Vietnam

• signified the official start of the war for the US