1960s

Question 1

Who drove the kennedys to be president

Answer 1

Joe Kennedy (father)

Question 2

JFK war hero resume

Answer 2

he did PT 109 ship and it blew up and he got good publicity on that

Question 3

JFK political backround

Answer 3

Massachusetts senator

Question 4

Who ran in election of 1960

Answer 4

JFK and Johnston, Nixon and Lodge

Question 5

First ever TV debate

Answer 5

Nixion had a weird outfit on and it made him lose votes.

Question 6

Who won the Black vote of the south

Answer 6

JFK

Question 7

Election map of 1960

Answer 7

Mississippi and half of Alabama are independent

Question 8

What role did Robert Kennedy hold

Answer 8

Attorney General

Question 9

What weird cabinet member was brought on and why

Answer 9

Robert McNamara Sect of Defense was 44 and a Republican to show bipartisan support

Question 10

What was created due to the increase of government spending on cold war

Answer 10

• creates elite special forces
• Green Berets

Question 11

When was the Berlin wall put up

Answer 11

1961

Question 12

When did Fidel Castro take power

Answer 12

1959

Question 13

What happens to the population of Cuba as Fidel rose to power

Answer 13

10 percent flee to Cuba

Question 14

What happened in the bay of pigs

Answer 14

CIA had trained Cuban exiles to fight and in 1961 the US Navy landed in Cuba and they were slaughtered

Question 15

Why did JFK support Bay of pigs

Answer 15

Eisenhower created it and if he didnt support it then he would look soft on communism

Question 16

When did USSR put nukes in cuba

Answer 16

1962

Question 17

What was the result of the Cuban missile crisis

Answer 17

Kennedy ordered them to be removed so they were but we took out missiles in turkey

Question 18

Who is Diem

Answer 18

Corrupt south vietnam leader

Question 19

What happened to diem

Answer 19

we put in place a coup to kill him in 1963

Question 20

Who were the southern communist in vietnam

Answer 20

viet cong

Question 21

JFK involvement in Vietnam

Answer 21

sent 1000 millitary personal

Question 22

What was JFK domestic policy called

Answer 22

New Frontier

Question 23

JFK on economy

Answer 23

increased min wadge but cut taxes

Question 24

What foreign help was signed by JFK

Answer 24

Peace corp that took american skills to developing counties

Question 25

JFK on civil right

Answer 25

supported it for votes yet nothing passed congress

Question 26

Who killed Kennedy

Answer 26

Lee Harvey Oswald and then Jack Ruby killed him

Question 27

How did Johnston politically come to power

Answer 27

pretended to be middle of the road whilst being very liberal

Question 28

First Johnston Act

Answer 28

War on poverty; Economic Opportunity Act Of 1964

Question 29

Job Corps

Answer 29

Federally funded to teach high schoolers trade skills

Question 30

VISTA

Answer 30

domestic peace corp

Question 31

Project Head Start

Answer 31

aid underprilleged pre schoolers

Question 32

Civil Rights act when passed?

Answer 32

1964 through guilt trip of Johnston

Question 33

1964 election people

Answer 33

Barry Goldwater and Lyndon B Johnston

Question 34

Barrry Goldwater Political

Answer 34

Ultra conservative; wanted to be a very large gap between republicans and democrats

Question 35

What did Barry Goldwater go after

Answer 35

Federal income taz, social security system, TVA and Civil rights Legislation

Question 36

Barry Goldwaters campaign thing

Answer 36

in your heart he knows hes right

Question 37

Political map 1964

Answer 37

Flip and deep south is Republican

Question 38

Book that exposed poverty line + author

Answer 38

The other America Micheal Harrington

Question 39

gave 1 bil in aid to help public schools

Answer 39

elementary and secondary act

Question 40

EEOC

Answer 40

equal employment opportunity commission

Question 41

Medicare act

Answer 41

1965 hospital insurance and low cost health insurance for almost all Americans over 65 and Medicaid gave to all on welfare

Question 42

formed to administer federal housing programs

Answer 42

1965 Dept of Housing and Urban Development

Question 43

set up public television

Answer 43

1967 Corporation for Public Broadcasting set up public television and radio

Question 44

ended quotas based on nationality which allowed many non Europeans to enter US

Answer 44

the immigration act of 1965

Question 45

set emission standards for new cars

Answer 45

Clean Air Act of 1965

Question 46

was est to deal with air rail and highway travel

Answer 46

Dep of Transportation 1966

Question 47

set new standards for labeling consumer products

Answer 47

Truth in Packaging Act 1966

Question 48

all suspects must be read their rights before questioning

Answer 48

Miranda decisions

Question 49

Who ran in 1968

Answer 49

LBJ did not run; Nixon and Humphrey and George Wallace

Question 50

Democrat nomminee in 1968

Answer 50

Hubert Humprey ran yet Robert Kennedy should have one but he died

Question 51

Who was the third party candidate in 1968

Answer 51

George Wallace because no southern candidate

Question 52

1968 election mapo

Answer 52

Alabama and Mississippi are independent

Question 53

Civil rights act

Answer 53

1964; Prohibited Segregation of all public places and discrimination

Question 54

Freedom summer

Answer 54

1964 in order to increase black voting in Mississippi

Question 55

Selma march

Answer 55

pushed congress to pass voting rights act

Question 56

voting rights act of 1965

Answer 56

banned literacy test`

Question 57

Black Power

Answer 57

- Believed economic and political equality - violence for self defense was acceptable - separatism not integration

Question 58

Nation of Islam

Answer 58

want their own state; Malcom x wanted to seperate

Question 59

Malcolm x

Answer 59

- Muslim black leader - preached violence and separatism

Question 60

Malcom x trip to mecca

Answer 60

changed his views

Question 61

Types of Discrimination in South

Answer 61

- South had De jure discrimination - legal discrimination

Question 62

types of Discrimination in north

Answer 62

- North had De facto discrimination - more difficult to prove and fight

Question 63

Why did the riots happen in the north

Answer 63

wanted to see more progress in the north

Question 64

Riot examples

Answer 64

- 1965 Watts Riot - felt like no economic equality - Newark NJ riots - Detroit MI

Question 65

Who took over the SNCCC

Answer 65

H Rap brown, turned it violent

Question 66

Black Panthers

Answer 66

- Oakland California - heavily armed - Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale

Question 67

Where did the hippy movements come in

Answer 67

became out of free speech movement in Berkeley

Question 68

Birthplace of hippies

Answer 68

San francisco, Haight Ashbury

Question 69

Where was hippies festivals

Answer 69

Golden gate park, "be ins"

Question 70

Woodstock

Answer 70

massive amount of people; seperation between who went and not

Question 71

Timothy Leary

Answer 71

advocate of LSD

Question 72

Famous hippie book

Answer 72

Electric coolaid acid test, Tom Wolfe