American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 29: CIVIL RIGHTS, VIETNAM, AND THE ORDEAL OF LIBERALISM

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John F. Kennedy walks by the United States Capitol with his brother Robert. What was the name given to President Kennedy's policy agenda?
A)Fair Deal
B)New Frontier
C)Great Society
D)Morning in America
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During President Kennedy's tenure, the Cold War escalated in several unsettling ways. Which of the following did not occur during the Kennedy administration?
A)Bay of Pigs
B)Cuban Missile Crisis
C)Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
D)Berlin Wall
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President Kennedy, seen here at a press conference in 1963, is also remembered for several foreign policy achievements, particularly in Latin America. Which of the following was not a Kennedy initiative?
A)Peace Corps
B)"Alliance for Progress"
C)Agency for International Development
D)Office of Economic Opportunity
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This aerial photograph of "ballistic missile bases" in Cuba sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1963. It is still considered by many to be the closest America and Russia ever came to nuclear war. What did President Kennedy concede in return for removal of these nuclear weapons?
A)West Berlin
B)The U.S. would not invade Cuba.
C)The U.S. would not invade Vietnam.
D)Russia could keep Poland.
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President and Mrs. Kennedy wave from the infamous Dallas motorcade on November 22, 1963. Who assassinated the president soon thereafter?
A)Jack Ruby
B)Lee Harvey Oswald
C)Eugene "Bull" Connor
D)James Earl Ray
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Controversies and conspiracy theories will always hover around the death of John F. Kennedy, partly because his assassin (pictured here) was himself assassinated two days later. Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald?
A)Jack Ruby
B)Sirhan Sirhan
C)James Earl Ray
D)Jim Clark
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The master politician of his age, Lyndon Baines Johnson tried valiantly to follow in the footsteps of his idol Franklin Roosevelt, before he was brought down by the conflict in Vietnam. Which of the following was not an achievement of LBJ's Great Society?
A)Medicare
B)Civil Rights Act of 1964
C)March on Washington
D)Medicaid
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This 1964 election ad for Lyndon Baines Johnson remains one of the most infamous television commercials in American political history. Who was this nuclear salvo of an attack ad aimed at?
A)Robert Kennedy
B)Barry Goldwater
C)Richard Nixon
D)Hubert Humphrey
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Crowds of civil right supporters listen to Martin Luther King's renowned "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. Approximately how many demonstrators attended the march?
A)50,000
B)100,000
C)200,000
D)500,000
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Civil rights supporters march with Martin Luther King from Selma to Montgomery. Who was the sheriff of Selma whose brutal tactics of oppression led to the deaths of two Northern whites and public outrage across the nation?
A)Eugene "Bull" Connor
B)George Wallace
C)Jim Clark
D)Strom Thurmond
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As cameras look on, civil rights supporters practicing nonviolent civil disobedience are arrested by Southern policemen. As the sixties progressed, however, more militant tactics came to the fore of the movement. Who was the celebrated Muslim preacher, killed in 1965, who advocated racial separation and more radical, occasionally even violent, action?
A)Fannie Lou Hamer
B)Medgar Evers
C)Malcolm X
D)James Chaney
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Members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry venture out on a "search and destroy" mission in the jungles of Vietnam. Who was the leader of Communist North Vietnam, against which America was fighting?
A)Ngo Dinh Diem
B)Ho Chi Minh
C)Dien Bien Phu
D)Ngo Dinh Nhu
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An American helicopter deploys troops in Vietnam, after the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave Lyndon Johnson the authority to "take all necessary measures" to "prevent further aggression" in Southeast Asia. What was the name of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson's secretary of defense, who played a large role in the Vietnam build-up (until it ultimately consumed him in 1968)?
A)James Earl Ray
B)Clark Clifford
C)Robert McNamara
D)Robert Weaver
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America experienced several traumatic events in 1968, from the Tet Offensive to the police beatings at the Democratic convention in Chicago. None were as jarring, however, as the twin assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy that year. Who shot Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis on April 4, 1968?
A)Clark Clifford
B)Eugene "Bull" Connor
C)Fannie Lou Hamer
D)James Earl Ray
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Who murdered Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968, the same night Kennedy had earlier won the California Democratic primary?
A)Fidel Castro
B)Sirhan Sirhan
C)Juan Bosch
D)Michael Schwerner
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