The War on Poverty was inspired by

a. Michael Harrington's book "The Other America".

b. All of these

c. the sickness and dire conditions President Johnson witnessed in the mining regions of Appalachia.

d. None of these

e. increasing public faith that an affluent nation such as the United States should be able to end poverty.

b

With the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

a. Congress maintained its war-declaring power.

b. the United States declared war on Vietnam.

c. Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam.

d. the military was given the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons.

e. the goals of American military involvement in Vietnam were clear.

c

Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their

a. trust in Johnson's Vietnam policy.

b. faith in the Great Society promises.

c. fear of the Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater.

d. loyalty to the Kennedy legacy.

e. All of these

e

Lyndon Johnson gained strong support for federal aid to education by

a. making sure that the funds would flow primarily to needy students.

b. sidestepping the controversy over parochial schools by channeling aid directly to students.

c. directing funds toward higher education only.

d. guaranteeing that no aid would be given to Catholic schools.

e. focusing on improving educational quality rather than racial integration.

b

All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson's administration except

a. the Peace Corps.

b. Medicare

c. the Office of Economic Opportunity.

d. Project Head Start

e. the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.

a

In the final analysis, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs

a. received more money than they could effectively spend.

b. proved that poverty could not be papered over with greenbacks.

c. won some noteworthy battles in education and healthcare.

d. did no good at all.

e. actually increased the poverty rate.

c

The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except

a. creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

b. requiring affirmative action against discrimination.

c. banning sexual as well as racial discrimination.

d. banning racial discrimination in most private facilities opened to the public.

e. prohibiting discrimination based on gender.

a

As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

a. the number of immigrants entering the country was reduced.

b. fewer Asians came to the United States.

c. sources of immigration shifted to Latin America and Asia.

d. sources of immigration tilted to Eastern Europe.

e. the racial and ethnic makeup of the country was unchanged.

c

The common use of poll taxers to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the

a. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

b. Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

c. War on Poverty

d. Twenty-Fourth Amendment.

e. Civil Rights Act of 1964.

d

The militant African American leader who most directly challenged Martin Luther King, Jr.'s goal of peaceful integration was

a. Fannie Lou Hamer.

b. Malcom X

c. Ralph Abernathy.

d. Medgar Evers.

e. Marcus Garvey.

b

The 1967 Six-Day War intensified the Arab-Israeli conflict by bringing into constant, direct conflict

a. Americans and Israelis.

b. the Israeli government and Jewish settlers on the West Bank.

c. Israel and Saudia Arabia.

d. Israel and the United States on the one hand and Arabs and the Soviet Union on the other.

e. Israelis and Palestinians.

e

The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy

a. occurred when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigned.

b. came with the revelation that the Tonkin Gulf attacks had been provoked by the United States.

c. came with the bombing of Cambodia.

d. was the Tet Offensive of 1968.

e. occurred when Senator J. William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee held public hearing on the war.

d

The attempt to nominate an antiwar Democratic candidate for president in 1968 suffered a crippling blow when

a. Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated after winning the California primary.

b. militant leftist demonstrators at the Chicago convention caused a backlash in favor of Humphrey.

c. pro-war Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the Oregon and California primaries.

d. Senator Eugene McCarthy withdrew from the race before the Democratic convention.

e. public opinion turned back in favor of the war after the Tet Offensive.

a

The site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation in 1969 was

a. Fire Island, New York.

b. the Mattachine Society headquarters (Los Angeles).

c. Key West, Florida.

d. Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana).

e. the Stonewall Inn (New York City).

e

Former Vice President Richard Nixon essentially won the 1968 presidential election by

a. re-asserting the Republican Party's historic commitment to civil rights and civil liberties.

b. arguing that the Vietnam War had been a mistake from the beginning.

c. promising to escalate the Vietnam War and win a decisive victory there.

d. exploiting Democratic divisions and appealing to moderately conservative law and order sentiment.

e. repudiating Goldwater conservatives and running as a liberal Republican.

d

Richard Nixon's policy of detente

a. was designed to improve relations between the Soviet Union and China.

b. was aimed at ending the division of Germany and Korea.

c. found support in the Democratic party but not the Republican party.

d. was a failure.

e. ushered in an era of relaxed tensions between the United States and the two leading Communist powers, China and the Soviet Union.

e