Extra Quiz: Chapter 38
1. John F. Kennedy defeated which opponent in the 1960 election?
2. Kennedy's domestic program, blocked in large part by a conservative Congress, was called the:
3. The Peace Corps, established under Kennedy, sent young Americans to:
4. The Bay of Pigs invasion targeted the government of:
5. The Bay of Pigs invasion had originally been planned under which administration?
6. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy's advisory group was known by the acronym:
7. The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when the Soviets agreed to remove missiles in exchange for:
8. One lasting result of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the:
9. The commission that investigated JFK's assassination and concluded Oswald acted alone was the:
10. Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of JFK, was himself killed by:
11. Lyndon Johnson's sweeping vision of expanded federal action against poverty and inequality was called the:
12. Johnson's War on Poverty created programs including Head Start and the:
13. Medicare and Medicaid, created in 1965, provided health coverage respectively for:
14. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during the:
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 created the agency known as the:
16. "Bloody Sunday" refers to the 1965 attack on marchers crossing the:
17. Malcolm X differed from Martin Luther King Jr. mainly in his:
18. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) was passed after an alleged attack on:
19. "Vietcong" refers to:
20. Operation Rolling Thunder was:
21. The Tet Offensive (January 1968) was militarily a defeat for the communists but:
22. After the Tet Offensive, President Johnson announced that he would:
23. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968 in:
24. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 shortly after winning the primary in:
25. The chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention, marked by violent clashes with antiwar protesters, was held in:
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