Chpt 34 history
All the following promised to seek peace in Vietnam except:
Curtis LeMay
The presidential candidate of the American Independent party in 1968 was
George Wallace
What relationship did Al Smith have to the 1960 campaign for president?
He was the last Catholic to run for president.
In the election of 1964:
Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide.
One of the biggest legislative accomplishments of the Kennedy administration came in the field of:
Tariff reduction
Lyndon Johnson was from:
Texas
Robert F kennedy served as Kennedy's
attorney general
violence erupted in 1962 when james meredith attempted to integrate
ole miss
Following the Cuban missile crisis, several steps were taken to ease Soviet-American tensions. These included all the following except:
the halting of construction on the Berlin Wall for several years.
During the campaign of 1964, candidate Barry Goldwater proposed
the sale of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
the protest tactic intiated by african american students in greensboro, north carolina was;
the sit ins
The Immigration Act of 1965:
treated all nationalities equally.
The March on Washington:
was the largest civil rights demonstration in American history.
In the election of 1968
Hubert Humphrey was the democratic candidate for president
Which of the following was assassinated in 1965?
Malcolm X
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court
confirmed the obligation of police to inform arrested suspects of their rights before questioning.
The health insurance bill passed by Congress in 1965:
created Medicaid to help cover medical payments for the indigent.
The civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965:
dramatically expanded black votes in the South.
president kennedy's cabinet appointments
emphasized youth
Operation "Rolling Thunder" was the:
first sustained bombing of North Vietnam.
Which of the following statements about Richard Nixon is not true?
he was catholic
Malcolm X:
said blacks should be proud of their African heritage.
The Watts riot
signaled a new phase in the civil rights movement.