Quiz 13/14 1960s-1970s
Ho Chi Minh
Communist, nationalist, led Viet Cong to unify North and South Vietnam
The first Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat in 1954 at:
Dien Bien Phu
Jack Ruby was charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy, but doubts about his guilt linger.
False
Lyndon Johnson's domestic program was called the New Frontier
False
The presidential candidate of the American Independent party in 1968 was:
George Wallace
the "I" in AIM stands for
Indian
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Michael Harrington's book, The Other America, influenced President Johnson to declare war on:
Poverty
George H. W. Bush
Republican vice presidential candidate in 1980
The so-called Pentagon Papers:
Revealed that Congress and the American people had not been told the full story of the Vietnam War and US involvement
The first African American cabinet member was
Robert C. Weaver
The term "Teflon presidency" referred to the administration of:
Ronald Reagan
The Gulf War resulted from:
Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait
The SALT agreement:
Set limits on certain types of nuclear weapons
Early in his presidency, all of the following could be considered Kennedy successes EXEPT
The Bay of Pigs invasion
Phyllis Schlafly was a leader in the campaign to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment.
True
Oliver North
main actor in Iran-Contra affair
President Carter's crowning failure, other than the hostage crisis was his:
mismanagement of the economy and energy crisis
Beginning with Watts, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966:
occurred largely outside the south
Nixon's Watergate-related downfall came with the revelation that he had:
ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in
The Civil Rights Act of 1964:
outlawed segregation in public facilities
In the 1960 presidential race, JFK
promised to pursue a "new frontier"
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
resulted in massive rioting in the streets
Malcom X
said blacks should be proud of their African heritage
Ronald Reagan
served as governor of California
Phyllis Schlafly
spearheaded campaign to defeat ERA
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
The student demonstrations at Kent State University that resulted in the deaths of four students were a response to:
the "incursion" into Cambodia
Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:
the University of Mississippi
President Carter said American foreign policy should be based on:
the defense of human rights
The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:
the sit-in
Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to:
those over age sixty-five
Despite Ronald Reagan's poor church attendance and his divorce and remarriage, the religious right supported him over Jimmy Carter in 1980
true
For pardoning Nixon, President Ford suffered a huge decline in his popularity.
true
In 1960, unemployment among Native Americans was ten times the national average, and their life expectancy was twenty years lower
true
The American hostages in Iran were held for over a year
true
The Strategic Defense Initiative was known as "Star Wars"
true
When AIDS emerged in the 1980s, many in the Reagan administration viewed it largely as a gay disease
true
Geraldine Ferraro
vice presidential candidate in 1984
The United Farm Workers:
was especially concerned with Mexican American migrant workers
The Bay of Pigs invasion:
was thoroughly bungled by the CIA
The Camp David Accords were agreements between Iran and Iraq
false
The Peace Corps was a group of Republican young people who campaigned for Nixon and other conservative candidates in 1960.
false
The bracero program involved the forced repatriation of illegal Mexican-American workers as well as Hispanic WWII veterans back to Mexico by 1960.
false
The Stonewall riots helped forge a new sense of solidarity among:
gays
Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson:
genuinely cared about the disadvantaged in society
When President Carter sent American commandos to rescue the hostages in Iran:
helicopter failures forced them to abort the mission in a sand storm
In the Gulf War, the United states:
helped free Kuwait from Iraqi control, was one of twenty-eight nations allied for Operation Desert Storm, called a cease-fire after six weeks of fighting
By 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. had become a leading spokesman for "black power."
false
Lyndon Johnson's domestic program was called the Great Society
false
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution:
allowed Johnson to escalate the war
As a result of Castro's pronouncement that Cuba would be a Communist state, President Kennedy:
authorized the CIA to begin training a force of Cuban refugees for a new revolution
The Moral Majority stood for all of the following EXCEPT:
bettering relationships with the Soviet Union
The Cuban Missile Crisis
brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war
As a president, Jimmy Carter:
created new cabinet-level Departments of Education and Energy
In his letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.
declared his willingness to break unjust laws
Voting Rights Act of 1965
dramatically expanded black votes in the South