- Who said, "There is no sense in raising hell and then not being successful," and why?
Your answer:
Richard Nixon, to explain why he did not run a more vigorous campaign for president in 1960
Lyndon Johnson, to explain why he was not running for reelection in 1968
Stokely Carmichael, to encourage his Black Power supporters to burn down Chicago
John Kennedy, to justify his failure to press Congress to enact reform legislation
Earl Warren, to explain why he had steered the Supreme Court in a “do-nothing” direction
- The Pill
Your answer:
was easily accepted because by the time it was introduced most states had repealed their restrictions on contraceptive use.
was hailed as technology of black liberation by African-American militants.
has significantly limited population growth in the Third World and ended the scourge of unwanted pregnancies in the United States.
freed women from doctors’ control.
helped to foster a sexual revolution in the United States.
- Which of the following statements about the Bay of Pigs invasion is accurate?
Your answer:
The Cuban exiles were captured without ever having established a defensible beachhead.
The CIA-conceived invasion of Cuba triggered a general uprising that nearly toppled Fidel Castro's regime.
After the invasion failed, President Kennedy went on television to apologize for his administration's effort to overthrow the Castro regime.
It was the first and last effort of the Kennedy administration to overthrow Fidel Castro.
none of these.
- The policy of the Kennedy administration toward Vietnam included
Your answer:
sending some 16,000 military advisers to South Vietnam and attempting to move South Vietnamese peasants into fortified villages to isolate the Vietcong.
sending American troops to protect Premier Ngo Dinh Diem from an expected military coup.
withdrawal of American troops and negotiations with the Soviet Union to install a neutral premier.
an embargo of the South to force Premier Ngo Dinh Diem to deliver on his promise of land reform.
all of these.
- Who was thought of by his liberal critics as "a Machiavelli in a Stetson"?
Your answer:
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
Stokely Carmichael
- Which of the following suggests Lyndon Johnson's policy on civil rights?
Your answer:
a cautious "wait and see" attitude that betrayed fear of upsetting his southern constituents
emphasis on increased educational opportunities for African-Americans, but failure to address immediate economic concerns
enactment of a sweeping civil-rights law that granted the federal government new powers to fight segregation
high-flown speeches that failed to produce significant legislation because of a continuing southern filibuster
frequent use of federal troops and lavish government spending
- In the 1964 presidential election,
Your answer:
Lyndon Johnson won over 60 percent of the popular vote while the GOP carried only Arizona and five Deep South states.
the GOP nearly defeated Lyndon Johnson, who had alienated northerners because he was a southerner, and southerners because he was too liberal.
the GOP successfully branded Johnson as an irresponsible liberal whose reelection would lead to depression and war in Vietnam.
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.
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.
- To what extent did Lyndon Johnson succeed in bringing about his Great Society, and why?
Your answer:
All the legislation proved to be no more than gigantic boondoggles because the programs were ill-conceived and under-financed.
Some of Johnson's programs significantly improved the quality of American life, but the major thrust to provide economic opportunity for all was derailed by the war in Vietnam.
Because of the sweeping Johnson programs, poverty was reduced to less than 5 percent of the population for the first time in American history.
Because Congress was generally hostile to most features of Johnson's program, it refused to approve anything more than minimum appropriations, thereby crippling and dooming the programs from the start.
choices B and C.
- In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court declared that
Your answer:
police had to advise a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent.
b. state laws prohibiting marriage between persons of different races were unconstitutional.
the federal courts possessed jurisdiction over state apportionment systems to ensure that the votes of all citizens carry equal weight.
states could not establish racially segregated schools even if the schools were supposed to have equal facilities.
states could not ban the use of contraceptives.
- What major change occurred for African-Americans in the mid-1960s as a result of southern African-American activism, court decisions, and federal legislation?
Your answer:
Unemployment for African-Americans had been cut in half and was approaching the rates for white Americans.
Racial discrimination had been eliminated from all spheres of American life.
African-American voter registration jumped, and for the first time since Reconstruction African-Americans became a force to be reckoned with in southern politics.
African-Americans were elected to top government positions in all southern states.
For the first time since Reconstruction, blacks in the south owned more land than their white counterparts.
- The recommendations of the Kerner Commission report included
Your answer:
strengthened local police forces to ensure that law and order could be maintained in the nation's cities.
2 million new jobs, 6 million units of public housing, the end of de facto school segregation, and a national system of income supplementation.
financing a system of medical care for the elderly through the social-security system.
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.
more jails, larger police forces, and a reinstitution of the death penalty.
- A technique used widely by militant feminists in the 1960s to recruit supporters and help transform women's perceptions of themselves and society was
Your answer:
burning of sexist books.
mass work stoppages.
sit-ins at all-male bars and social clubs.
consciousness-raising discussion groups.
parades and festivals.
- The Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Your answer:
advocated the use of nuclear weapons against North Vietnam if that government did not accede to American demands.
authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against American forces and to prevent further aggression in Vietnam.
condemned United States involvement in Vietnam and demanded that American troops be withdrawn immediately.
demanded that Chinese troops be withdrawn to the Tonkin region before negotiations could begin.
constituted a congressional explanation to the American people of the Johnson administration's immediate and long-term foreign policy goals in Southeast Asia.
- War was avoided in the Cuban missile crisis when
Your answer:
the United States agreed to remove its missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Soviets' taking their missiles out of Cuba.
Kennedy agreed to remove Western troops from East Berlin in exchange for Khrushchev's order to dismantle Soviet missiles in Cuba.
the United States agreed to stop its bombing of North Vietnam in exchange for the Soviets' removal of missiles with nuclear warheads from Cuba.
Khrushchev agreed to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade that country.
Kennedy ended the embargo of Cuba and Khrushchev transferred its missiles to China.
- The feminist revival in the 1960s was brought about by
Your answer:
continuing employment discrimination.
the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.
the sexism women activists encountered in the peace and civil-rights movements.
the report of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
all of these