1960’s Presentation Questions
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In the 1960 elections who were the two candidates and which
parties did they belong to? Which one won the election and
became president?
Kennedy or Nixon: place a “K” for Kennedy or an “N” for Nixon
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Born in 1913
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“Kitchen Debate”
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WW II hero
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Wrote Profiles in Courage
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2 Catholic to run for President g.
“staunch” anticommunist
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had been Vice President
What was one reason Kennedy received 70% of the Black
vote?
In winning an election which is more important the electoral
vote or the popular vote?
What was Kennedy’s margin of victory in the popular vote?
Name JFK’s Vice president?
When and where was the first sit-in held?
Explain what SNCC stands for.
What did SNCC believe?
Explain what Stokeley Carmichael and “Rap” Brown did to
SNCC?
Describe the purpose of the “freedom rides”.
What did COFO do in 1963?
What would many of JFK’s advisors lead LBJ into?
Give the name of JFK’s legislative program.
What happened to most of JFK’s New Frontier?
Who wrote The Other America: Poverty in the United States?
What was JFK’s reaction to the book in #16?
Define inflation.
3.5% refers to what event?
Describe the bill JFK signed into law in June of 1963.
Give a result of the VEP.
Name the Blackman who tried to get into the all white University
of Mississippi.
Describe what happened to Medgar Evers.
Why would Black protestors see violence done against them by
the Birmingham Alabama police as a positive action?
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Describe what Martin Luther King did while in Jail in
Birmingham.
Name the police commissioner of Birmingham who wanted to
get the federal government off their backs by reducing non
police violence.
Who was George Wallace and what did he do?
How many people attended the March on Washington in 1963?
Who was the leader of the USSR and how did he use the U-2
Incident?
What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
Define the term “third world” nation.
Who was appointed the first director of the Peace Corps?
How many Peace Corps volunteers have there been?
Explain the main focus of the Alliance for Progress.
Who was Castro and why did the U.S. not like him?
Where in 1961 did a U.S. expedition to overthrow the Cuban
government take place?
Explain the importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What were the Russians putting into Cuba in the early 1960’s?
What did JFK choose to get the missiles out of Cuba?
Name the first artificial satellite launched into Orbit and which
nation did it?
Who was the first man in space and what nation was he from?
Who was the U.S.’s first astronaut?
Who was America’s first astronaut to orbit the earth?
Which two nations refused to sigh the nuclear ban treaty?
Who was leader of the Vietnamese communists?
What was JFK’s goal in South Vietnam?
What happened to Ngo Dinh Diem who was the leader of South
Vietnam?
Name the man that murdered President Kennedy.
Who became president after Kennedy was killed?
Name the commission that stated Lee Harvey Oswald was the
sole assassin of President Kennedy.
List LBJ’s two main goals.
Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1964?
How did LBJ’s campaign characterize Goldwater?
Name the ad that is considered to be one of the first examples
of negative television campaigning.
What was LBJ’s margin of victory in the 1964 election?
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Explain what LBJ did not have to worry about after his victory in
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What did the election indicate?
List five environmental laws passed by LBJ.
Which president originally introduced the Civil Rights Act in
1963?
Explain what “freedom schools” were.
List the three civil rights volunteers who were murdered in
1964.
Name the Black leader who believed in using violence to gain
goals.
What was LBJ’s goal and who was his role model?
Fill in the chart below:
Name of Great Year Program Purpose of
Society Enacted
Program
Program
Economic
1964
Created
Opportun
several
ity Act
including
Job
Corps;
VISTA,
and Head
Start
1965
Created
Medicare
and
Medicaid
federal
health
insuranc
e
programs
Department of
Housing
& Urban
Develop
ment
Corporation
1967
for Public
Broadcas
ting
1965
Established
emission
standard
s for
motor
vehicles
Truth in
1966
packagin
g Act
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What was the “cornerstone” of the War on Poverty?
List four programs enacted under the Economic Opportunity Act
of 1964.
Explain the purpose of the Head Start program.
Name the LBJ program that was based on the New Deal’s
CCC.
What did VISTA stand for?
What is the VISTA program called today?
Give the official purpose of the Food Stamp program.
What does AFDC stand for?
Describe what Title 1 funding did for schools.
What is the purpose of Medicare?
When were prescriptions benefits added to Medicare?
List three items the Supreme Court dealt with in the 1960’s.
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the 1960’s?
What did Griswald v. Connecticut establish a precedent for?
Why did the Supreme Court overrule Miranda’s conviction?
List your four Miranda rights.
Explain what “wasp” stands for.
Where was a march held in 1965 for voting rights?
What happened on “bloody Sunday”?
List three things the Voting Rights Act of 1965 did.
What were the results of the Watts Riots in 1965?
Who were the two founders of the Black Panther Party?
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Describe what happened in Cicero in 1966.
List the cities that had race riots in 1967.
Who was James Earl Ray?
Why did the Free Speech Movement aid the anti-war
movement?
Where did the Free Speech movement begin?
Up until the early 1960’s what did the Federal Government try
to get Indians to do?
Explain one result of the Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island.
Who led the fight for fair treatment of migrant farm workers
through boycotts, demonstrations, and marches?
What does “Huelga” mean?
What had women secured by the 1960’s?
List three demands of feminists of the 60’s and 70’s.
Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?
Explain what Betty Friedan encouraged her readers to do.
What does “NOW” stand for?
List some reasons why divorce rates went up.
Who was the first “drop-out”?
Who were a forerunner to the larger counterculture movements
that would take place in the 1960’s?
Who former the bulk of anti-war protestors?
Who was a symbol of the counter-culture?
By whom and when was the computer mouse invented?
Who was the first man to step on the surface of the moon?
What did the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorize LBJ to do?
What were LBJ’s choices over Vietnam in 1966?
What was the systematic bombing of North Vietnam called?
Who was General Giap and what did he plan?
What were Giap’s two primary goals?
Explain what the Tet Offensive made clear.
How many U.S. troops were in Vietnam in 1968?
List three types of anti-war protests.
When did Robert Kennedy decide to enter the Presidential
race?
How did Lyndon Johnson shock the nation?
Who won the 1968 presidential election and what party did he
belong to?
Who was in the “silent majority”
Give three examples of Nixon’s “liberal” legislation.