1960's

Use the diagram below to answer the question.

Which Statement BEST completes the diagram

• Kennedy provides military support to Cuba

• Kennedy uses diplomacy to get the U.N. to pressure Soviets to back down.

• President Kennedy uses strategic strikes by aircraft against the new missile sites.

• President Kennedy blockades Cuba, threatens an invasion, and secretly negotiates with the Soviet Union.

Use the excerpt below to answer the question.

"We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'"
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

What aim did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have in publishing this message?

• To promote violence as a means of achieving justice
• To discourage activism for civil rights
• To explain why African Americans needed to not wait for justice

• To advocate for delayed justice

Use the chart below to answer the question.

Which phrase BEST completes the chart?

• States cannot deny citizens over 18 the right to on account of age.

• States cannot deny citizens the right to vote on the basis of gender.

• States cannot deny citizens the right to vote on account of race.

• States cannot deny the right to vote to American Indians on federal reservations.

Which of the following was a major goal of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society program?

• Increase poverty rates
• Reduce access to education
• Promote racial injustice
• Eliminate poverty and racial injustice

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Which event MOST contributed to the changes shown in the graph?

• The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

• Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

• Southern states enacted new voting laws.

• Ratification of the 15th Amendment

Use the diagram below to answer the question.

Which action did the United States take as a result of the theory illustrated by this diagram?

• Congress enacted the War Powers Resolution.

• The United States sent troops to South Vietnam.

• Congress investigated suspected communists working in the State Department.

• The United States distributed economic aid under the Marshall Plan.

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The Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression. 
...the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member...of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom.

--Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 7, 1964

This resolution is an example of which US foreign policy?

• Monroe Doctrine
• Isolationism
• Détente
• Containment

Use the excerpt below to answer the question.

The Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression. 
...the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member...of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom.

--Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 7, 1964

Which of the following occurred as a result of this resolution?

• Decreased U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia
• Ratification of a peace treaty in Southeast Asia
• Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Southeast Asia
• Increased U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia

One major effect of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 was

• Decrease in civil rights activism
• Rioting in many American cities.

• Rise in racial segregation
• Decrease in awareness of racial inequality

Which of the following conclusions explains why the United States placed a naval blockade around Cuba and surrounding islands?

• The United States wanted to test its military capabilities
• Cuba refused to trade with the United States
• Soviet missiles in Cuba posed a direct threat to the United States
• The United States sought to establish a new military base in the region