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Mr K History 10
JFK / LBJ
Question | Answer |
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In the election of 1960, who was the Republican presidential candidate running against JFK? | Richard Nixon |
In the election of 1960, who was the Democratic presidential candidate that won the election? | JFK- John F. Kennedy |
Dictator of Cuba during the Cuba Missile Crisis: | Fidel Castro; the Missile Crisis lasted 13 days |
Bay of Pigs invasion by the U.S. was an attempt to: | oust Castro from power |
What amendment allowed Johnson to run a second term for office? | 2nd |
Be able to name 3 parts of LBJ's (Lyndon B. Johnson) Great Society | Tax Cut; War on poverty; Healthcare; Education; Housing |
Name of Kennedy's domestic programs: | New Frontier |
The Soviet premier during the crisis of Berlin: | Nikita Khrushchev |
The Warren Commission determined that this person acted alone in the shooting of JFK: | Lee Harvey Oswald |
Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald? | Jack Ruby |
The division of Germany in 1961: | West Berlin was democratic; East Berlin was Communist |
The Berlin Wall built by Nikita Khrushchev(Soviet leader) kept East Berliners in East Berlin and stood for how many years? | 28 years |
Who became Vice President after the assassination of JFK? | No one |
In the election of 1964, who was the Republican candidate? Who was the Democratic candidate that won? | Berry Goldberg was the Republican candidate-- Johnson was the Democratic candidate that won the election in 1964 |
The first televised debate (JFK vs. NIxon) during an election was in: | 1960 |
Amount of time between the assassination of JFK and LBJ being sworn in was: | just over 2 hours |
First Catholic President: | JFK |
This president's lifestyle was compared to King Author's Camelot: | JFK |
The Senator from Minnesota that became Vice President under LBJ? | Hubert Humphrey |
Earl Warren: | was the Chief Justice who headed the committee (Warren Committee) that investigated the assassination of JFK |
President prior to JFK: | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Castro overthrew this president of Cuba: | Fulgencio Batista |
Place of JFK's assassination: | Dallas, Texas |
CIA: | was the government agency that trained the invaders of the Bay of Pigs |