Deck 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Michael Harrington

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Stokely Carmichael

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John F.Kennedy

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Martin Luther King,Jr.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Elijah Muhammad

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Curtis LeMay

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jack Kerouac

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Eugene McCarthy

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Malcolm X

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Robert S.McNamara

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Medgar Evers

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hubert H.Humphrey

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Spiro T.Agnew

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Robert F.Kennedy

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles de Gaulle

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lyndon B.Johnson

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Barry Goldwater

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard M.Nixon

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
J.William Fulbright

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alliance for Progress

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
flexible response

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Wallace

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Allen Ginsberg

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
credibility gap

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"rights revolution"

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
modernization theory

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Great Society

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Peace Corps

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
massive retaliation

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
War on Poverty

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bay of Pigs

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cuban missile crisis

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
counterculture

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Freedom Rides

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New Frontier

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
March on Washington

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Palestine Liberation Organization

Question 42

Kennedy was often cautious and frustrated in advancing social reform and civil rights legislation because

A) he was looking forward to winning a much larger mandate in the election of 1964.
B) the civil rights movement's militant demands undercut public support for moderate reform.
C) his own vice president, Lyndon Johnson, lobbied against the legislation behind his back.
D) conservative southern Democrats controlled key Congressional committees.
E) Republican majorities in the Senate blocked his legislative proposals.

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Beat poets

Question 44

The essential purpose of President Kennedy's promise to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s was to

A) restore American prestige in the space race damaged by the Soviets' Sputnik.
B) develop the possibility of deploying American weapons in outer space.
C) engage in scientific and astronomical study of the moon and the solar system.
D) provide investments and jobs in the key states of Texas and Florida.
E) use the space program to develop new technologies in electronics and other areas.

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nation of Islam

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Viet Cong

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"hawks" and "doves"

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Medicare and Medicaid

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Six-Day War

Question 51

When he became attorney general,Robert Kennedy sought to refocus the attention of the FBI on

A) organized crime and civil rights.
B) communist spies and terrorism.
C) political corruption and campaign law violations.
D) illegal immigration and drug trading.
E) automobile theft and illegal weapons.

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Students for a Democratic Society

Question 54

President Kennedy's most bitter confrontation with big business occurred when he

A) raised taxes on corporate business profits.
B) refused to support compensation for American businesses' lost investments in Cuba.
C) demanded that the American oil industry stop driving up the price of gasoline.
D) forced steel industry leaders to roll back steel price increases.
E) lowered tariff rates to permit more European imports into the United States.

Question 55

When he took office in 1961,President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through

A) a massive foreign-aid program.
B) large-scale government spending programs.
C) a tax cut.
D) reducing expenditures on the space program.
E) a looser monetary policy.

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Operation Rolling Thunder

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Free Speech Movement

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tet offensive

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"black power"

Question 61

President Kennedy ordered hundreds of federal marshals and thousands of federal troops to force the racial integration of

A) Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
B) Louisiana State University.
C) the lunch counters of Greensboro, North Carolina.
D) the bus stations in Birmingham, Alabama.
E) the University of Mississippi.

Question 62

The 1962 Trade Expansion Act

A) cut taxes to increase American purchasing power.
B) provided incentives to American overseas investments.
C) made the United States a member of the Common Market.
D) raised the minimum-wage and Social Security benefits of most working-class Americans.
E) reduced American tariffs.

Question 63

The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except

A) U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo.
B) the removal of Nikita Khrushchev from power in the Soviet Union.
C) a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba.
D) an ambitious program of military expansion by the Soviet Union.
E) withdrawal of U.S. missiles in Turkey.

Question 64

Before he became vice president and then president of the United States,Lyndon Johnson had exercised great power as

A) secretary of defense.
B) Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate.
C) a wealthy Texas businessman.
D) governor of Texas.
E) Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Question 65

American military forces entered Vietnam in order to

A) try to drive the communists out of North Vietnam.
B) help to stage a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem.
C) prevent Ngo Dinh Diem's regime from falling to the communists.
D) establish defensive perimeters around Saigon and other Vietnamese cities.
E) promote democratic reforms in South Vietnam.

Question 66

At the time of his death,President John Kennedy's civil rights bill

A) had been passed, much to the satisfaction of African Americans.
B) had been passed, but greatly weakened by amendments.
C) was still bogged down in Congress.
D) was on the desk waiting to be signed into law.
E) was locked in a filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Question 67

President Johnson proved to be much more successful than President Kennedy at

A) getting his legislation passed by Congress.
B) exciting the ideals and spirit of his fellow citizens.
C) reducing America's overseas commitments.
D) gaining the admiration and support of the media.
E) appealing to America's European Allies.

Question 68

President Kennedy's alleged assassin was

A) Jack Ruby.
B) Lee Harvey Oswald.
C) Medgar Evers.
D) James Earl Ray.
E) an agent of Fidel Castro.

Question 69

John F.Kennedy's strategy of flexible response

A) was an updated version of John Foster Dulles's doctrine of massive retaliation.
B) was used in his battle with the leadership of the steel industry.
C) called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis.
D) required increased spending on a variety of nuclear weapons systems to be deployed around the world.
E) cut back nuclear weapons in favor of guerrilla forces.

Question 70

President John Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy began to join hands with the civil rights movement when they

A) sent federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders.
B) ordered the FBI to remove the wiretap from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s phone.
C) secured passage of the Voting Rights Act.
D) journeyed south to support the registration of black voters.
E) ordered the immediate desegregation of schools.

Question 71

American and world public opinion turned strongly in favor of the civil rights movement when

A) Senator Barry Goldwater came out in favor of the civil rights bill.
B) Martin Luther King led a successful nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
C) J. Edgar Hoover's wiretaps on Martin Luther King were exposed.
D) Martin Luther King's peaceful demonstrators were viciously attacked in Birmingham.
E) Martin Luther King met with President Kennedy at the White House.

Question 72

The 1963 March on Washington led by Martin Luther King,Jr.,provided critical support for

A) the War on Poverty.
B) the Democratic party.
C) the Voting Rights bill.
D) the civil rights bill to end segregation.
E) jobs and medicare.

Question 73

When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba,President Kennedy ordered

A) the installation of nuclear weapons in Turkey.
B) surgical air strikes against the missile sites.
C) the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
D) resumption of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
E) a naval quarantine of that island.

Question 74

The Bay of Pigs invasion failed when

A) the Cuban rebel forces lost the Battle of Havana.
B) the anti-Castro exiles were defeated by the Cuban military.
C) the Soviet Union intervened to protect the Castro government.
D) President Kennedy's use of U.S. air power led to the capture of American pilots.
E) anti-Castro Cubans in Florida refused to support the effort.

Question 75

During the 1963 March on Washington,Martin Luther King,Jr.,delivered his famous "I Have A Dream Speech," in which he proclaimed

A) that blacks would become more militant if their rights were not secured.
B) that a black man would one day be president
C) that his children would one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin.
D) All of these
E) None of these

Question 76

The Freedom Riders

A) protested segregation by torching buses on segregated routes.
B) sought to end segregation in facilities serving interstate bus passengers.
C) were involved in the sit-ins across the South to end segregation.
D) were African Americans who sought to integrate public school buses.
E) None of these

Question 77

The Alliance for Progress,which intended to improve economic growth and democratic reforms in Latin America,was

A) effectively implemented by American Peace Corps volunteers.
B) effective economically but ineffective in developing pro-American sentiment in the region.
C) generally disappointing.
D) weakened by the Kennedy administration's harsh policies toward Cuba.
E) an incentive for growing Soviet intervention in the region.

Question 78

At first,John F.Kennedy moved very slowly in the area of racial justice because he

A) did not support civil rights.
B) needed the support of southern legislators to pass his economic and social legislation.
C) had not pledged any action in this area during his campaign.
D) believed that initiatives in this area should come from the Supreme Court and Congress.
E) was suspicious of Martin Luther King.

Question 79

President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the

A) Great Crusade.
B) Fair Deal.
C) New Frontier.
D) Johnson Revolution.
E) Great Society.

Question 80

In a speech at American University in 1963,President Kennedy recommended the adoption of a policy toward the Soviet Union based on

A) flexible response.
B) massive retaliation.
C) peaceful coexistence.
D) gradual escalation.
E) containment.