HIST B17B Chapter 29 Quiz

In what city did Mayor Connor order police to unleash their dogs and clubs on civil rights demonstrators?

Birmingham, Alabama

The strongest and most visible opposition to Diem's government was led by:

Buddhists

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created by the:

Civil Rights Act of 1964

All of the following became critical of Johnson's Vietnam policy EXCEPT:

General William Westmoreland

President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:

Great Society

All of the following are true of the 1968 presidential election EXCEPT:

Hubert Humphrey lost because he refused to alter Johnson's Vietnam policies

In South Vietnam in the early 1960s:

Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisers

Student civil rights activists in the South would likely experience all of the following EXCEPT:

Kennedy's public encouragement

During the 1964 election:

Republicans continued to make gains in the Deep South

On June 6, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed:

Robert Kennedy

Kennedy described which country as the "cornerstone of the free world in Southeast Asia?"

South Vietnam

The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:

a U.S.-Soviet agreement to scrap nuclear weapons

One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to:

avoid losing it to communism

By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were proponents of what they termed:

black power

The Cuban missile crisis:

brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war

In his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," Martin Luther King:

declared his willingness to break unjust laws

The major purpose of the Soviet missiles placed in Cuba was to:

deter another American-supported invasion of Cuba

The Tet offensive of early 1968:

dramatically affected public support for Johnson's war policy

The Voting Rights Act of 1965:

dramatically expanded black votes in the South

By the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King had decided to:

emphasize the need for economic uplift for the black urban poor

In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:

erecting the Berlin Wall

In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty:

generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans

Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson:

genuinely cared about the disadvantaged in society

President Johnson's first priority on the domestic front was to:

get Kennedy's legislative program through Congress

The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:

government guarantee of full employment

Richard Nixon:

had a reputation for hard-line anti-communism and rough campaign tactics

The purpose of Kennedy's proposed tax cut was to:

help the economy by stimulating consumer spending

The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:

his brother Robert

Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for:

his elegant and inspiring rhetoric

President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:

men with new ideas and fresh thinking

Beginning with Watts, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966:

occurred in large cities

During the 1964 campaign, Republican nominee Barry Goldwater:

offered a sharply conservative alternative to Johnson's policies

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

outlawed segregation in public facilities

John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:

personal health

Michael Harrington's book The Other America influenced President Johnson to declare war on:

poverty

During the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:

promised to get the country "moving again"

Changes in immigration law in 1965:

removed quotas based upon national origin

In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:

required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights

The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago:

resulted in massive rioting in the streets

Malcolm X:

said blacks should be proud of their African heritage

When Alabama governor George Wallace was ordered by federal marshals to stand aside from the doorway at the University of Alabama so that black students could enter, Wallace:

stood aside

Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:

the University of Mississippi

All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:

the Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen

Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to:

the elderly

Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:

the passage of a large tax cut

The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:

the sit-in

In early 1968, increasing opposition to the war within his own party:

ultimately forced Johnson out of the presidential race

The result of the 1960 election:

was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states

The Bay of Pigs invasion:

was thoroughly bungled by the CIA

The Tonkin Gulf resolution:

was used by Johnson as a substitute for a declaration of war