AP US History

Chapter 39 and 40 of my AP US History study cards. Hopefully I'll pass!

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When he became attorney general, Robert Kennedy wanted to refocus the attention of the FBI on
  • Organized crime and civil rights
The 1962 Trade Expansion Act
  • Reduced American Tariffs
John F. Kennedy’s strategy of “flexible response”
  • called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis.
While it seemed sane enough, John F. Kennedy’s doctrine of flexible response contained some lethal logic that
  • potentially lowered the level at which diplomacy would give way to shooting.
American military forces entered Vietnam in order to
  • prevent Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime from falling to the communists.
When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered
  • A naval “quarantine” of Cuba
. The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except ?
  • U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo.
9. At first, John F. Kennedy moved very slowly in the area of racial justice because he
  • needed the support of southern legislators to pass his economic and social legislation.
. John Kennedy joined hands with the civil rights movement when he
  • Sent federal marshals to protect the freedom riders
President Kennedy ordered hundreds of federal marshals and thousands of federal troops to force the racial integration of
  • the University of Mississippi
By mid-1963, President John F. Kennedy’s position on civil rights can best be described as
  • committed to finding a solution to this moral issue
At the time of his death, President John Kennedy’s civil rights bill
  • was making little headway
14. The official government investigation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination was led by
  • Earl Warren
. President Kennedy’s alleged assassin was
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the
  • Great Society