What did the Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler) do?

Opened the door for many non-European immigrants

Which is a reason that Kennedy beat Nixon in the election of 1960?

Kennedy had the support of the African American community, Kennedy performed better on a T.V. debate

The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved by

The Soviet Union removing their missiles from Cuba

Why did Kennedy almost lose the 1960 election?

The democratic party was split over view on race

The case Miranda v. Arizona established

The right for suspect to have their rights read

The Bay of Pigs invasion ended in

$54 million in ransom being paid for captured Cuban exiles

The Limit Test Ban Treaty

Limited where a nuclear weapon could be tested

What led to the creation of the Berlin Wall?

People were leaving East Berlin and moving to the west

paid "employees" only a living stipend

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New Frontier and the Great Society

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Why did Kennedy have a difficult time implementing many domestic programs
He lacked popular support because of a close election
His ideas were stopped by southern Democrats
All of the above
They were very radical
2
Kennedy's domestic programs were nicknamed
The Fair Frontier
The New Frontier
The New Deal
The Fair Deal
3
What did the Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler) do?
Restricted immigrant form Mexico
Opened the door for many non-European immigrants
It limited immigration by creating quotas
Deported Chinese immigrants
4
Which is a reason that Kennedy beat Nixon in the election of 1960?
Kennedy had the support of the African American community
Kennedy performed better on a T.V. debate
All of the above
Nixon did not have enough experience
5
The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved by
All of the above
The Soviet Union removing their missiles from Cuba
Cuba promising not to fire the missiles
The U.S. publicly agreeing to remove missiles from India
6
Why did Kennedy almost lose the 1960 election?
The American people did not trust democrats at the time
The democratic party was split over view on race
Kennedy was not tough enough on the Cold War
Kennedy could not raise enough money
7
Who shot John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Martin Warren
John Connally
Jack Ruby
8
Kennedy's method of containment which increased military spending to create special forces
Nuclear Deterrent
Flexible Response
Brinkmanship
Conventional Defense
9
Once elected president, Kennedy surrounded himself with
The "Best and the brightest"
Massachusetts politicians
Southern rights defenders
Close family friends
10
The case Miranda v. Arizona established
The right to have an attorney
The right to trial by jury
The right for suspect to have their rights read
The right to clean air
11
The Bay of Pigs invasion ended in
An increase in respect for the U.S.
the removal of Fidel Castro
$54 million in ransom being paid for captured Cuban exiles
a smaller U.S. military
12
The Limit Test Ban Treaty
Limited the strength of nukes that could be tested
Stopped all nuclear testing
Limited how many nukes a country could test
Limited where a nuclear weapon could be tested
13
Which topic did the Great Society NOT address?
Education
The environment
Media rights
Povery
14
What led to the creation of the Berlin Wall?
To keep East Berliners safe
People were leaving East Berlin and moving to the west
To stop supplies from getting to East Berlin
West Berliners were aggressive toward the Soviet Union
15
The Peace Corps
Was discontinued in 2006
paid "employees" only a living stipend
Had over one million members by 1965
Primarily sent monetary aid to foreign countries
16
To fight poverty, President Johnson
Started the Head Start program
created the Job Corps for training workers
All of the above
Encouraged poor to participate in public-works programs
17
What did the Warren Commission conclude?
The bullets trajectory defied the laws of physics
Time travel as involved in the assassination
There was a conspiracy to killed Kennedy
Kennedy's assassin acted alone
18
In 1962, Kennedy increased NASA's funding and promised
To send a satellite to space
To send a man to the moon
To send a man to space
To send a man to Mars

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