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1960s
Review for 1960s test
Question | Answer |
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Shuttle diplomacy was instrumental in settling | Israel's Yum Kippur War. |
The largest group of people who voted for Nixon were known as | the silent majority |
Nixon was the first US president to visit this country | China |
the following tactics were used by blacks in the 1960s to gain their civil rights | sit-ins at white establishments. freedom marches. bus boycotts |
the following mew were assassinated during the 1960s | Martin Luther King Jr. Robert Kennedy John Kennedy |
John F. Kennedy | the youngest to be elected and the first Catholic |
Martin Luther King Jr | Worked to peacefully bring about civil rights for blacks by reaching out to the white middle class and organizing protests. |
Lyndon Johnson's domestic program was | The Great Society |
JFK's domestic agenda was known as | The New Frontier |
Malcolm X | Controversial Civil Rights leader |
Programs associated with the Great Society | Hud Job Corps Fair Packing and Labeling Medicaid and Medicare Clean air and water act Highway safety Act |
Nixon's special advisor and later secretary of state | Henry Kissinger |
movement that protested American involvement in Vietnam | New Left |
President Kennedy's domestic program | The New Frontier |
ended discrimination by literacy tests and harassment in federal courts. | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Johnson's program for defeating poverty | Great Society |
Two issues that caused problems for the USA and Cuba | Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs |
Berlin Wall |