Quiz: Chapter 38

John F. Kennedy's 1960 victory made him:

• a. The youngest elected president and first Catholic president
• b. The first president from Texas
• c. The oldest elected president
• d. The first Republican president since Eisenhower

The Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 aimed to:

• a. Overthrow Fidel Castro
• b. Remove Soviet missiles from Cuba
• c. Establish a naval quarantine
• d. Annex Cuba as a U.S. territory

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy responded to Soviet missiles in Cuba with a:

• a. Naval quarantine
• b. Full-scale invasion
• c. Declaration of war
• d. Immediate airstrike on the missile sites

President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963 in:

• a. Dallas, Texas
• b. Memphis, Tennessee
• c. Los Angeles, California
• d. Chicago, Illinois

Lyndon Johnson's ambitious program to fight poverty and inequality was called the:

• a. Great Society
• b. New Frontier
• c. Modern Republicanism
• d. New Deal

Medicare and Medicaid, created in 1965, provided:

• a. Health insurance for the elderly and the poor
• b. Housing for veterans only
• c. College scholarships
• d. Unemployment insurance

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the:

• a. March on Washington
• b. Selma to Montgomery march
• c. Democratic National Convention
• d. Montgomery Bus Boycott rally

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in:

• a. Public accommodations and employment
• b. Voting only
• c. Housing only
• d. Higher education only

"Bloody Sunday" at Selma in March 1965 led directly to the:

• a. Voting Rights Act of 1965
• b. Civil Rights Act of 1964
• c. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• d. Great Society programs

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) gave Johnson authority to:

• a. Wage war in Vietnam without a formal declaration
• b. Negotiate directly with North Korea
• c. Cut off all aid to South Vietnam
• d. Withdraw all U.S. advisers from Vietnam

The 1968 Tet Offensive was significant mainly because it:

• a. Shattered American confidence that the war was nearly won
• b. Ended the Vietnam War
• c. Was a decisive communist military defeat with no political impact
• d. Led directly to Nixon's election in 1964

The year 1968 was marked by the assassinations of:

• a. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
• b. John F. Kennedy and Malcolm X
• c. Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey
• d. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara