Ch. 31 New Frontiers: The 1960's
The city that described itself as "too busy to hate" was:
Atlanta
The strongest and most visible opposition to Diem's government was led by:
Buddhists
The Equal Employment Opportunities 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
Tensions escalated in Southeast Asia by 1961 with increasing Communist influence in:
Laos
On June 5, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed:
Robert Kennedy
The Tet offensive marked a turning point in public support for the war in Vietnam.
True
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
By the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King had decided to:
emphasize the need for economic uplift for the black urban poor
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 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
President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:
men with new ideas and fresh thinking
In 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
In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:
required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights
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
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
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
