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Ike, JFK, LBJ Quiz
Ike, JFK, LBJ Quiz
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1
President Johnson's vision for a more perfect and equitable society in the U.S. was called the
New Deal.
Great Society.
Square Deal.
Great Race.
2
In 1962, US spy planes reported that the Soviet Union had placed long-range missiles in
Colombia.
West Germany.
China.
Cuba.
3
LBJ's program to provide health insurance to the elderly
Project Headstart
Medicaid
Vista Program
Medicare
4
The 1960 presidential campaigns of Kennedy and Nixon were affected by the new use of
newspapers.
radio.
television.
the courts.
5
Johnson's program to help disadvantaged preschool age children
Head Start
VISTA
Peace Corps
Medicare
6
To prevent communism in other countries, Eisenhower used
covert
operations carried out by
the Navy.
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA).
7
suspicion promoted by JFK that the US lagged behind the Soviets in nuclear weaponry
broken cold dream
brinkmanship danger
consensus
missile gap
8
What did Eisenhower create to focus US research in rocket and space technology after
Sputnik
?
Space X
Space Bomb Agency
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
9
The Warren Commission concluded that John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted
on his own.
in conspiracy with the Cuban government.
with several other communists.
with the help of Soviet spies.
10
Which president established a Commission on the Status of Women and signed the Equal Pay Act?
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
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Eisenhower's large public works project to provide faster transportation across the US
Economic Opportunity Program
VISTA
Medicare
Federal Highway Act
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the willingness to go to the edge of nuclear war to force the other side to back down
covert action
brinkmanship
sacrifice race
military-industrial complex