History Chapter 29 Quiz

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President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:

Great Society.

In South Vietnam in the early 1960s:

Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisers.

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed:

Martin Luther King Jr.

The first African American cabinet member was:

Robert C. Weaver.

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

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

The Tonkin Gulf resolution:

allowed Johnson to escalate the war.

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

black power.

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

break the logjam in Congress that had blocked Kennedy's legislative efforts.

The Cuban missile crisis:

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

By 1967, public opposition to the war was especially strong among:

college students.

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

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.

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.

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

government guarantee of full employment.

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

his brother, Robert.

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

occurred largely in urban areas.

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.

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 pursue a "new frontier."

Changes in immigration law in 1965:

removed quotas based on national origin.

The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago:

resulted in massive rioting in the streets.

Malcolm X:

supported the nonviolent tactics of Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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 a narrow victory for Kennedy.

Kennedy's legislative program:

was largely blocked by conservatives in Congress.

The Bay of Pigs invasion:

was thoroughly bungled by the CIA.


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