History II Final Exam Part 3

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Tensions escalated in Southeast Asia by 1961 with increasing Communist influence in:

Laos

In the 1964 election:

Republicans continued to make gains in the Deep South

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 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

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

get Kennedy's legislative program through Congress

Richard Nixon:

had a reputation for hard-line anticommunism and rough campaign tactics

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

his brother, Robert

President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:

men with new ideas and good minds

Changes in immigration law in 1965:

removed quotas based upon national origin

Malcolm X:

said blacks should be proud of their African heritage

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

the Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen

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

the sit-in

Kennedy's legislative program:

was largely blocked by conservatives in Congress

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


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