Deck 12: 1957-1963: New Frontiers at Home and Abroad

Question 1

President Kennedy continued Eisenhower's Cold War strategies.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Communist China and the U.S.S.R. remained close allies throughout the Cold War.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Eisenhower used U.S. military might sparingly.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Kennedy used U.S. military might less sparingly than did Eisenhower.

Question 5

Kennedy proved inflexible when it came to political ideals.

Question 6

Kennedy's domestic policies were pro-business.

Question 7

Congress embraced the majority of Kennedy's domestic proposals.

Question 8

Kennedy threw the full force of his administration behind civil-rights reform.

Question 9

For Kennedy, domestic issues were secondary to international issues.

Question 10

Communist China was an important supporter of North Vietnam.

Question 11

Compare and contrast Eisenhower and Kennedy, specifically their personalities, their leadership styles, and their responses to domestic and international crises.

Question 12

Who was David Smith? Why was he mentioned in this chapter?

Question 13

How did Kennedy promote, or fail to promote, civil rights, during his time as president?

Question 14

The 1960 U.S.-Soviet crisis concerned what?

A) West Berlin
B) The newly established "Common Market"
C) Spying
D) All of the above

Question 15

Vice president Nixon was attacked by an angry crowd in what Latin American country?

A) Venezuela
B) Brazil
C) Paraguay
D) Colombia

Question 16

Before becoming ruler of Cuba, what was Fidel Castro's profession?

A) Soccer player
B) Military leader
C) University professor
D) Lawyer

Question 17

The U.S. and Cuba broke off diplomatic relations in what year?

A) 1958
B) 1959
C) 1960
D) 1961

Question 18

Who coined the phrase "military-industrial complex"?

A) Dwight Eisenhower
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Lyndon B. Johnson
D) Adlai Stevenson

Question 19

What religion was Kennedy?

A) Methodist
B) Jewish
C) Presbyterian
D) Catholic

Question 20

Kennedy's domestic policies came to be known by what name?

A) The Fair Deal
B) The New Frontier
C) The Square Deal
D) The Great Society

Question 21

David Smith was born in what city?

A) New York City
B) Decatur, Indiana
C) Columbus, Ohio
D) San Francisco

Question 22

Events in what city in 1963 spurred Kennedy to take firm action on civil rights reform?

A) Birmingham, Alabama
B) Atlanta, Georgia
C) Decatur, Indiana
D) Jackson, Mississippi

Question 23

Who served as U.S. national security adviser in the 1960s?

A) Henry Kissinger
B) McGeorge Bundy
C) Walt W. Rostow
D) All of the above

Question 24

What new branch of the military did Kennedy create?

A) Navy Seals
B) Marines
C) Special Forces
D) All of the above

Question 25

How much money did the government spend in the 1960s to land a man on the moon?

A) $12 billion
B) $24 billion
C) $28 billion
D) $37 billion

Question 26

The Bay of Pigs was undertaken under what president?

A) Dwight Eisenhower
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Richard Nixon

Question 27

How old was Kennedy when he was elected president?

A) 35
B) 40
C) 42
D) 52

Question 28

Who was U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Cuban missile crisis?

A) Robert McNamara
B) Robert Kennedy
C) Dean Rusk
D) General Maxwell Taylor

Question 29

In what year did U.S. involvement in Vietnam begin?

A) 1950
B) 1959
C) 1961
D) 1964

Question 30

Kennedy was assassinated in what city?

A) Houston
B) San Antonio
C) Dallas
D) Fort Worth

Question 31

Talk About:
-17th parallel:

Question 32

Talk About:
-Alliance for Progress

Question 33

Talk About:
-Bay of Pigs

Question 34

Talk About:
-Cuban missle crisis

Question 35

Talk About:
-Eisenhower Doctrine

Question 36

Talk About:
-European Economic Community

Question 37

Talk About:
-Fidel Castro

Question 38

Talk About:
-"freedom rides"

Question 39

Talk About:
-Fulgencio Batista

Question 40

Talk About:
-George Wallace Answer : Right-wing third-party candidate in the 1968 presidential election

Question 41

Talk About:
-Ho Chi Minh

Question 42

Talk About:
-John F. Kennedy

Question 43

Talk About:
-Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 44

Talk About:
-Medicare

Question 45

Talk About:
-"New Frontier"

Question 46

Talk About:
-Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 47

Talk About:
-Robert Kennedy

Question 48

Talk About:
-Robert McNamara

Question 49

Talk About:
-U-2 incident

Question 50

Discuss the differences between the America that Kennedy inherited in 1960 and the America he left in 1963. What had changed in those years? What new challenges had arisen? How did his actions help shape what was to follow in the years after his assassination?

Question 51

For much of its history, the United States has claimed to support "freedom" and "self-determination" abroad. Yet consider the case of Vietnam in the 1950s. Everyone agreed, Westerners and Communists alike, that a free election would undoubtedly mean a victory for the Communist Ho Chi Minh. It would seem, then, that the United States was prepared to support self-determination only if voters could be expected to make decisions favored by Washington. Bearing in mind the ideals that were supposedly at stake in the Cold War, evaluate America's strategy in that interminable ideological struggle.