1960's Quiz

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)

Answer explanation

America attempted to overthrow Castra at the Bay of Pigs, but the attempt failed, leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis

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