History Chapter 29 Quiz
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.