Question 1

Who was accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy?

Accepted Answer

A)  William Miller 
B)  Medgar Evers 
C)  Lee Harvey Oswald 
D)  Jack Ruby 
E)  Malcolm Little 
A)  William Miller 
B)  Medgar Evers 
C)  Lee Harvey Oswald 
D)  Jack Ruby 
E)  Malcolm Little

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Indian Self-Determination Act

Accepted Answer

The Indian Self-Determination and Educat

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Operation Rolling Thunder

Accepted Answer

Operation Rolling Thunder was a sustaine

Question 4

What were the recommendations of the Kerner Commission?

Accepted Answer

A)  strengthening of local police forces to ensure that law and order could be maintained in the nation's cities. 
B)  increases in federal expenditures for programs that provided assistance to urban African-Americans. 
C)  financing a system of medical care for the elderly. 
D)  a 20 percent increase in the defense budget, a five-fold increase in the purchase of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the building of nuclear submarines armed with Polaris missiles. 
E)  more jails, larger police forces, and a reinstitution of the death penalty. 
A)  strengthening of local police forces to ensure that law and order could be maintained in the nation's cities. 
B)  increases in federal expenditures for programs that provided assistance to urban African-Americans. 
C)  financing a system of medical care for the elderly. 
D)  a 20 percent increase in the defense budget, a five-fold increase in the purchase of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the building of nuclear submarines armed with Polaris missiles. 
E)  more jails, larger police forces, and a reinstitution of the death penalty.

Question 5

Which of the following was not part of President Richard Nixon's strategy in Southeast Asia?

Accepted Answer

A)  escalated American bombing of North Vietnam. 
B)  ordered massive increases in American ground forces to invade North Vietnam. 
C)  replaced American troops with South Vietnamese forces. 
D)  opened secret direct negotiations with North Vietnam's foreign minister, Le Duc Tho. 
E)  widened the war by invading Cambodia. 
A)  escalated American bombing of North Vietnam. 
B)  ordered massive increases in American ground forces to invade North Vietnam. 
C)  replaced American troops with South Vietnamese forces. 
D)  opened secret direct negotiations with North Vietnam's foreign minister, Le Duc Tho. 
E)  widened the war by invading Cambodia.

Question 6

Discuss Lyndon Johnson's vision for a Great Society. To what extent was Johnson able to deliver on his promises? To what extent did he fail? Why?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon Johnson's vision for a Great Soci

Question 7

What was the result of the 1964 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

A)  Lyndon Johnson won a landslide in the popular vote while the GOP carried only Arizona and five Deep South states. 
B)  The GOP nearly defeated Lyndon Johnson, who had alienated northerners because he was a southerner and southerners because he was too liberal. 
C)  The GOP successfully branded Johnson as an irresponsible liberal whose reelection would lead to depression and war in Vietnam. 
D)  Lyndon Johnson won a sweeping electoral victory but was unable to help the Democratic party make gains in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. 
E)  Third-party candidate George Wallace siphoned enough votes from both major-party candidates to throw the election into the House of Representatives, which, because it was controlled by the Democrats, voted for Lyndon Johnson. 
A)  Lyndon Johnson won a landslide in the popular vote while the GOP carried only Arizona and five Deep South states. 
B)  The GOP nearly defeated Lyndon Johnson, who had alienated northerners because he was a southerner and southerners because he was too liberal. 
C)  The GOP successfully branded Johnson as an irresponsible liberal whose reelection would lead to depression and war in Vietnam. 
D)  Lyndon Johnson won a sweeping electoral victory but was unable to help the Democratic party make gains in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. 
E)  Third-party candidate George Wallace siphoned enough votes from both major-party candidates to throw the election into the House of Representatives, which, because it was controlled by the Democrats, voted for Lyndon Johnson.

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Tet Offensive

Accepted Answer

The Tet Offensive was a major military c

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Kennedy and Vietnam

Accepted Answer

Kennedy and Vietnam refers to the involv

Question 10

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of East Asia that correctly identifies each of the following: 
   
Thailand

Accepted Answer

The answer of Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying...

Question 11

Which of the following is not true about John F. Kennedy?

Accepted Answer

A)  He had compiled an impressive record of achievement during his years in Congress and had sponsored much notable reform legislation. 
B)  He had won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that had been written primarily by one of his staff members. 
C)  He was esteemed as a war hero and projected an image of vigor and rugged good looks. 
D)  He was the first Roman Catholic to become president of the United States. 
E)  While president he used mood-altering drugs to alleviate pain and engaged in extramarital affairs. 
A)  He had compiled an impressive record of achievement during his years in Congress and had sponsored much notable reform legislation. 
B)  He had won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that had been written primarily by one of his staff members. 
C)  He was esteemed as a war hero and projected an image of vigor and rugged good looks. 
D)  He was the first Roman Catholic to become president of the United States. 
E)  While president he used mood-altering drugs to alleviate pain and engaged in extramarital affairs.

Question 12

How and why did opposition to the Vietnam War grow? Who supported the war, and who opposed it? What role did student protests play in ending the war?

Accepted Answer

Opposition to the Vietnam War grew for a

Question 13

Which of the following was an explanation offered for the destructive race riots that swept American cities between 1964 and 1968?

Accepted Answer

A)  they were revolutionary violence to overthrow a racist, reactionary society. 
B)  they were evidence of a communist plot to subvert the United States. 
C)  they were senseless outbursts by troublemakers. 
D)  they were the product of white racism, poverty, slum housing, poor education, and police brutality. 
E)  all of these choices 
A)  they were revolutionary violence to overthrow a racist, reactionary society. 
B)  they were evidence of a communist plot to subvert the United States. 
C)  they were senseless outbursts by troublemakers. 
D)  they were the product of white racism, poverty, slum housing, poor education, and police brutality. 
E)  all of these choices

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little on May 19

Question 15

How did Eugene "Bull" Conner help Martin Luther King's civil rights efforts in 1963?

Accepted Answer

A)  King hired Conner as a public relations adviser to gain the support of northern whites. 
B)  Televised reports of Conner's violent attacks against protesters and their children horrified the public and pushed JFK to act. 
C)  King asked Conner to organize the march on D.C. in August. 
D)  King persuaded Conner to become the first southern leader to support the desegregation of schools. 
E)  King encouraged Conner to lobby President Kennedy concerning new civil rights legislation 
A)  King hired Conner as a public relations adviser to gain the support of northern whites. 
B)  Televised reports of Conner's violent attacks against protesters and their children horrified the public and pushed JFK to act. 
C)  King asked Conner to organize the march on D.C. in August. 
D)  King persuaded Conner to become the first southern leader to support the desegregation of schools. 
E)  King encouraged Conner to lobby President Kennedy concerning new civil rights legislation

Question 16

MAP QUESTIONS 
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of Indochina that correctly identifies each of the following: 
   
Saigon

Accepted Answer

The answer of MAP QUESTIONS 
Instructions: Choose the letter on...

Question 17

Who was largely responsible for kindling the ethnic pride and solidarity of Mexican-Americans in the 1960s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Carmen Miranda 
B)  César Chávez 
C)  Martin Luther King, Jr. 
D)  Mario Savio 
E)  Aileen Hernandez 
A)  Carmen Miranda 
B)  César Chávez 
C)  Martin Luther King, Jr. 
D)  Mario Savio 
E)  Aileen Hernandez

Question 18

What impact did the photographic record of the war in Vietnam have? What makes these images so powerful and such successful examples of visual culture? What do they exposeand what goes unstated? How might they have affected public opinion regarding the war?

Accepted Answer

The photographic record of the war in Vi

Question 19

Which of the following captures the approach of the Kennedy administration to the issue of civil rights?

Accepted Answer

A)  reduced support for civil-rights litigation by the Justice Department. 
B)  accepted racial discrimination in federally financed housing. 
C)  was reluctant to take a firm stand and to introduce civil-rights legislation. 
D)  encouraged the Black Power movement and the Nation of Islam. 
E)  All of these choices 
A)  reduced support for civil-rights litigation by the Justice Department. 
B)  accepted racial discrimination in federally financed housing. 
C)  was reluctant to take a firm stand and to introduce civil-rights legislation. 
D)  encouraged the Black Power movement and the Nation of Islam. 
E)  All of these choices

Question 20

MAP QUESTIONS 
Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of Indochina that correctly identifies each of the following: 
   
Hanoi

Accepted Answer

The answer of MAP QUESTIONS 
Instructions: Choose the letter on...

Exam 28: Liberalism, Civil Rights, and War in Vietnam

Who was accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Indian Self-Determination Act

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Operation Rolling Thunder

What were the recommendations of the Kerner Commission?

Which of the following was not part of President Richard Nixon's strategy in Southeast Asia?

Discuss Lyndon Johnson's vision for a Great Society. To what extent was Johnson able to deliver on his promises? To what extent did he fail? Why?

What was the result of the 1964 presidential election?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Tet Offensive

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Kennedy and Vietnam

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of East Asia that correctly identifies each of the following: Thailand

Which of the following is not true about John F. Kennedy?

How and why did opposition to the Vietnam War grow? Who supported the war, and who opposed it? What role did student protests play in ending the war?

Which of the following was an explanation offered for the destructive race riots that swept American cities between 1964 and 1968?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad

How did Eugene "Bull" Conner help Martin Luther King's civil rights efforts in 1963?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of Indochina that correctly identifies each of the following: Saigon

Who was largely responsible for kindling the ethnic pride and solidarity of Mexican-Americans in the 1960s?

What impact did the photographic record of the war in Vietnam have? What makes these images so powerful and such successful examples of visual culture? What do they exposeand what goes unstated? How might they have affected public opinion regarding the war?

Which of the following captures the approach of the Kennedy administration to the issue of civil rights?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of Indochina that correctly identifies each of the following: Hanoi

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