Unit 3

Question 1

Who won the the election of 1960 and who lost?

Answer 1

JFK wins the election against Nixon

Question 2

Know things about Kennedy

Answer 2

He is the only Catholic president, a war veteran, and is known to be handsome

Question 3

Who are the Green Berets?

Answer 3

Army men

Question 4

What is the Peace Corps?

Answer 4

They send volunteers to Africa, Asia, and Latin America for economic aid

Question 5

What is Alliance for Progress?

Answer 5

It encouraged democracy and capitalism in Latin America. It aimed to establish economic cooperation, but was a complete failure

Question 6

What is the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 6

The event where U.S. trained anti-Castro Cuban refugees to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro

Question 7

How long did the Bay of Pigs last?

Answer 7

72 hours

Question 8

What did the Bay of Pigs make America and JFK look like?

Answer 8

Incompetent

Question 9

What is the Berlin Crisis?

Answer 9

Khruschev wants to intimidate JFK and demands NATO troops out of Western Berlin

Question 10

Why does Khruschev want to build the Berlin Wall?

Answer 10

To keep all the doctors and important people from defecting to Western Berlin

Question 11

What is the height of the Cold War?

Answer 11

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 12

Why does Cuba have nuclear weapons?

Answer 12

To prevent an invasion

Question 13

What does the U.S. do when they find out Cuba has nuclear weapons?

Answer 13

They put a blockade around Cuba and they won’t let any weapons through

Question 14

Who is sending nuclear weapons to Cuba?

Answer 14

Soviet Union

Question 15

Where was JFK killed?

Answer 15

Dallas Texas

Question 16

Why was JFK in Dallas?

Answer 16

He was campaigning

Question 17

Who killed JFK?

Answer 17

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 18

How many bullets did it take it kill JFK?

Answer 18

3

Question 19

Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald?

Answer 19

Jack Ruby

Question 20

What is the Warren Commission?

Answer 20

They were the committee that investigated JFK’s assassination

Question 21

What conclusion did the Warren Commission come up with?

Answer 21

Both Oswald and Ruby acted alone

Question 22

Where was LBJ sworn in?

Answer 22

Air Force One

Question 23

What three things does the OEO come up with to fight the war on poverty?

Answer 23

1. Job Corps
2. Head Start
3. VISTA

Question 24

What does Job Corps provide?

Answer 24

It provides training and job opportunities for unemployment

Question 25

What is Head Start?

Answer 25

It is a preschool for underprivileged children

Question 26

What is VISTA?

Answer 26

It's like the peace core of the U.S

Question 27

What was it called when LBJ wanted America to become a great community?

Answer 27

Great Society

Question 28

What is Medicare?

Answer 28

Financial medical assistance for senior citizens

Question 29

What is Medicaid?

Answer 29

Health coverage for underprivileged families

Question 30

Why did LBJ start funding for education?

Answer 30

He wanted to aid poor neighborhoods, so he put finding into education

Question 31

Where did we send 22,000 marines to put down rebellion?

Answer 31

Dominican Republic

Question 32

How much more money did we spend on the Vietnam War over the War on Poverty?

Answer 32

18 times more

Question 33

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

Answer 33

It is the court case that made blacks and whites separate, but equal

Question 34

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

Answer 34

The court case that made separate public schools for blacks and whites unconstitutional

Question 35

Who are the Little Rock Nine?

Answer 35

They are a group of nine black students that were the first to go to a desegregated school in the south

Question 36

What was the Little Rock Showdown?

Answer 36

It is when the national guard tried to prevent the Little Rock Nine from entering the school, but LBJ sent in federal troops to stop the national guard.

Question 37

Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott start?

Answer 37

Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white person

Question 38

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 38

it is when 50,000 blacks in Montgomery boycotted for months. The boycott was a success.

Question 39

What kind of protesting did MLK Jr. encourage?

Answer 39

Nonviolent protesting

Question 40

Who are the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

Answer 40

They were a nonviolent resistance led by MLK Jr.

Question 41

Sit-Ins

Answer 41

Where protesters would sit and refuse to move

Question 42

What are Freedom Riders?

Answer 42

They are charter buses full of civil right activists that traveled through the south exposing violations of civil rights laws and decisions

Question 43

What happened in Albany?

Answer 43

People were protesting and they peacefully arrested them to make less media buzz

Question 44

What did protectors do differently at the protests in Birmingham?

Answer 44

They let young adults join the protest so they could get more attention if it got violent

Question 45

March On Washington

Answer 45

MLK Jr speech, Lincoln Memorial

Question 46

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

Answer 46

1. Banned discrimination in employment 2. Enforced school desegregation 3. Equal voting

Question 47

What did the 24th Amendment do?

Answer 47

Banned payment of polling taxes

Question 48

At what place were people protesting and the protestors got trampled on?

Answer 48

Selma

Question 49

What did the Voting Rights Act do?

Answer 49

It gave the feds the control of voting registration

Question 50

How did schools try to integrate students?

Answer 50

Busing

Question 51

Affirmative Action

Answer 51

It gives preference to ethnic minorities & women in hiring & admition

Question 52

University of California v. Bakke (work in progress)

Answer 52

Reserved a fix number of openings for certain groups