Question

1. Which laws called for strict separation of the races in the South?

Answer 1

1. Which laws called for strict separation of the races in the South?

Jim Crow laws



2. Civil rights activists targeted segregation in interstate transportation

despite the fact that most southern whites supported their efforts.



3. Why did Lyndon Johnson’s support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 surprise many Americans?
He had forcefully opposed the efforts of the freedom riders.



4. In response to the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy
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ordered that the Berlin Wall be destroyed.



5. Why did President Eisenhower support the new anticommunist government of South Vietnam?

He wanted to make South Vietnam a U.S. colony.

6. In what way was the Tet Offensive a strategic blow to the Americans?

It sparked uprisings that spread throughout South Vietnam.



7. The United States ended its involvement in the Vietnam War because
Vietnamization failed amid of growing dissent in the United States.



8. The high point of President Nixon’s foreign policy efforts was

South Vietnam’s surprise victory after the Paris Peace Accords.



9. The events that led to the Montgomery bus boycott were set in motion

before the Supreme Court handed down Brown v. Board of Education.



10. In 1964, students poured into Mississippi to take part in th

Birmingham protests.


11. John F. Kennedy’s “flexible response” policy was intended to

provide a much-needed boost to the nation’s economy.



12. In addition to areas of Vietnam, what other areas of French Indochina were under French control in 1954?

Cambodia and Laos.