Exam 29: A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968

Congress narrowly defeated President Johnson's request in 1964 for authorization to "take all necessary measures" to prevent further aggression in Vietnam.

Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:

One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to:

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -George Wallace

Malcolm X:

In early 1968, increasing opposition to the war within his own party:

Student civil rights activists in the South would likely experience all of the following EXCEPT:

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -William Westmoreland

The Cuban missile crisis:

President Johnson was not as adept at handling Congress as President Kennedy had been.

Volunteers in Service to America was part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965:

The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:

Michael Harrington's book The Other America influenced President Johnson to declare war on:

By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were proponents of what they termed:

When Alabama governor George Wallace was ordered by federal marshals to stand aside from the doorway at the University of Alabama so that black students could enter, Wallace:

Kennedy described which country as the "cornerstone of the free world in Southeast Asia?"

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Eugene "Bull" Connor

The strongest and most visible opposition to Diem's government was led by:

John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Michael Harrington