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