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Clep 1960s Kennedy
Clep 1960s Kennedy and Social Issues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Franklin Roosevelt had his New Deal, Harry Truman had his Fair Deal, and John F. Kennedy had his ____ | New Frontier. |
| President Kennedy's plan was called "a New Frontier." Major pieces of this program were ___ by Congress, including a Medicare program, federal aid to education, and a Department of Urban Affairs. | rejected |
| Under President Kennedy's administration, the __of 1961 provided $5 billion for urban renewal and new housing construction. | Housing Act |
| The Housing Act of 1961 provided $4.88 billion in loans and grants for urban renewal and housing construction. This was one of the major pieces of Kennedy's "New Frontier" which ___despite resistance in Congress. | did succeed |
| Under President Kennedy, the ___ was created, allowing Americans to volunteer in developing countries to help those countries meet their needs for trained workers. | Peace Corps |
| During a sit-in blacks would sit down at a lunch counters or in arest. and refuse to leave until they were served. Sit-ins were often successful, although they sometimes took months, and similar tactics were used for other__ facilities. | public |
| The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), founded in 1942, believed in using nonviolent civil __ to obtain civil rights for African Americans. | disobedience |
| The Congress of Racial Equality org. sit-ins to end segregation in restaurants, and freedom rides to end segregation in public trans. ____ Rides were a tactic in which both blacks and whites rode buses throughout the South to integrate bus terminals. | Freedom |
| The March on Washington consisted of over 200,000 people who marched to the __ to demand equal rights for all citizens under the law. At the end, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. | Lincoln Memorial |
| The Bay of Pigs invasion was part of a failed operation by the CIA to use Cuban exiles to overthrow the Communist regime of ___ | Fidel Castro. |
| The Bay of Pigs invasion was approved by President Kennedy, however, his refusal to authorize ___ support for the invasion played a big part in its failure. | air |
| The Cuban Missile crisis was an incident where the Soviet union and the United States went to the brink of__ during President Kennedy's term. | nuclear war |
| The Cuban missile crisis occurred when the U.S. discovered that the Soviets were constructing medium-range ____sites in Cuba. The Soviets backed down to U.S. demands and removed the missiles. In return, American missiles were removed from Turkey. | missile |
| The Nuclear __ Treaty was signed in 1963 by the United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain. | Test Ban |
| The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater and in space. France and __refused to sign the treaty. | China |
| Shortly after the Cuban missile crisis, a telephone link between Washington and Moscow known as the___ was established, providing quick and reliable communication directly between the two leaders. | hot line |
| The "hot line" was established to reduce the chance of a nuclear war happening by ____. | accident or misunderstanding |
| President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 by ___ while riding in a motorcade through Dallas. | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of President Kennedy, and was killed a few days later by a man named __ | Jack Ruby. |
| A 17-member commission known as the ___ was assigned the task of investigating President Kennedy's assassination. | Warren Commission |
| The Warren Commission, headed by Chief Justice Warren, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had killed Kennedy and that Jack Ruby and Lee Oswald had acted ___ . | alone |
| Franklin Roosevelt had his New Deal, Harry Truman had the Fair Deal, John Kennedy had his New Frontier, and Lyndon Johnson had the___. | Great Society |
| The Great Society involved programs to fight ___ , disease, crime and delinquency, and also included aid for education, and eliminating obstacles to the right to vote. | poverty |
| Which of the following began the drive to end segregation in the South? a. The March on Washington, DC b. Freedom Summer c. Birmingham marches d. The Montgomery Bus Boycott e. The march from Selma to Montgomery | d. The Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| A direct consequence of the Russian launching of Sputnik was a. the adoption of the "duck and cover" program in schools. b. a new emphasis on science teaching. c. a new emphasis on academic achievement and quality education. | c. a new emphasis on academic achievement and quality education. |
| "It was TV more than anything else that turned the tide." This quotation was probably said about the election of a. 1948. b. 1960. c. 1968. d. 1980. e. 1992. | b. 1960. |
| The Bay of Pigs fiasco led to all of the following EXCEPT a. criticism of JFK for not supporting the invaders with air support. b. criticism of JFK for agreeing to the plan. e. removal of Kennedy's staff from decisions involving the CIA. | e. removal of Kennedy's staff from decisions involving the Central Intelligence Agency. |
| "Black Power recognizes the ethnic basis of Am. politics as well as the power-oriented nature of Am. politics. Black Power therefore calls for black people to __ behind their own, ... position of strength." quotes Stokely Carmichael. | consolidate |
| The person most likely to join the counterculture was. middle-class white person of ____. | college age |
| "Black Power" equates to a. black separatism. b. pan-Africanism. c. black pride and black leadership. d. a call to rebellion. e. the power of the black vote. | c. black pride and black leadership. |
| All of the following began in the 1960s EXCEPT a. the sexual revolution. b. the widespread use of drugs among white, middle-class youth. c. the African-American civil rights movement. d. the anti-Vietnam War movement. e. the feminist movement. | c. the African-American civil rights movement. |
| Which of the following novels was most likely to be read by college students in the 1960s? a. The Naked and the Dead b. Rabbit, Run c. The Catcher in the Rye d. You Can't Go Home Again e. The Sound and the Fury | c. The Catcher in the Rye |
| A primary reason that African Americans and Latinos protested the Vietnam War was because their young men fought in ____ numbers in terms of the total population of draft-age men. | disproportionate |
| Which of the following Presidents declared that the United States would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade? a. Harry Truman b. Dwight Eisenhower c. John Kennedy d. Lyndon Johnson e. Richard Nixon | c. John Kennedy |
| Which of the following did NOT follow the example of Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolence? a. National Organization for Women b. National Farm Workers Association c. American Indian Movement d. Abortion rights groups e. Sierra Club | c. American Indian Movement |
| The domino therory (fear of countries falling to communist) was used to support US's role in the ____ War. | b. Vietnam. |
| Who among the following is NOT associated with the folk music and antiwar protests of the1960s? a. Peter, Paul, and Mary b. Bruce Springsteen c. Bob Dylan d. Pete Seeger e. Joan Baez | b. Bruce Springsteen |
| Which of the following radicalized the student protests of the 1960s? a. New Frontier b. New Freedom c. New Right d. New Left e. socialism | d. New Left |
| All of the following were effects of the civil rights movement of the 1960s EXCEPT a. health-care reform. b. unionization of California grape pickers. c. Native American lawsuits for title to lands lost to whites. d. a conservative backlash. | a. health-care reform. |
| The prairie style of architecture was the work of which of the following? a. Louis Sullivan b. Frank Lloyd Wright c. Philip Johnson d. Charles McKim e. Stanford White | b. Frank Lloyd Wright |
| William Levitt would not like this song why? "Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes ..., little boxes made of ticky tacky There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a ....and they all look just the same." | He mass produce houses for the suburbs |
| The Other America by Michael Harrington was significant because its focus on the poverty in which many Americans lived helped to build awareness for the___ | "war on poverty". |
| The declaration of goals of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) was "______Statement" where it determined that race and alienation were the two major flashpoints to exploit for their vision of a better America. | Port Huron |
| The Feminine Mystique was significant because itgave voice to ___women's discontent with their lives. | middle-class |
| The ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright established the right to counsel to ___ a defendant. | represent |
| What pulled the plug on President Johnson's Great Society? a. The electorate b. The disaffection of African American leaders c. The Vietnam War d. Johnson's own inability to work with Congress e. Johnson's inarticulateness | c. The Vietnam War |
| A major goal of the Niagara Movement was the enforcement of voting rights for ___. | African American men |
| Which of the following would have been LEAST likely to vote for Lyndon Johnson in 1964? a. Southern Democrats b. Northern liberals c. Midwestern farmers d. Western ranchers e. Recent college graduates | a. Southern Democrats |
| The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination in all public accommodations, prohibited discrimination in hiring, prohibited unions from discriminating in accepting members and authorized federal agencies to withhold funding from projects in which __. | employers discriminated |
| Which of the following was NOT a tool of the African American civil rights movement? a. Sit-ins b. Boycotts c. Sit-down strikes d. Freedom Rides e. Freedom Summer | c. Sit-down strikes |
| Being able to exercise the right to vote was seen as an important goal by the civil rights movement because the right to vote was the first step in ___ and gaining equal rights | ending segregation |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke approved the consideration of race as one factor in an ____action policy? | affirmative |
| The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 was significant because it ___ the national origins quota system. | abolished |
| A direct consequence of the Immigration Act of 1965 was a sharp ___ in the number of immigrants from Asia and Latin America. | rise |
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