History II Final Exam Part 3
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
