Political situation - Quiz

1) John Fitzgerald Kennedy became president in:





2) Kennedy's opponent in the Democratic elections was:





3) How many percent of the popular vote did Kennedy receive?





4) J.F.Kennedy was the youngest person ever to win the presidency in the United States.



5) The New Frontier was:



6) Bay of Pigs invasion began under whose presidency:





7) Who launched the first artificial satellite?



8) Kennedy gave the green light for the Apollo Project with the intention to land the American man on the moon:



9) How many members of the crew did the Apollo 11 have?





10) Peace corps, which were designed to assist people in developing nations, were:





11) J.F.Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in:





12) Who is considered to be Kennedy's assassin:




13) Why was the Bay of Pigs considered to be an embarrassment for the United States?




14) Cuban missile crises ended in a way that:



15) Lyndon B. Johnson was a member of:



16) Who was Lyndon B. Johnson's challenger in the presidential elections?





17) Johnson's aim as a president was to:




18) The Peace corps were created by which American president?



19) The Great society is the term applied to the President Johnson's economic program of the 1960s.



20) The Immigration Act (1965) allowed people from Asia, Europe and Africa to enter the states on the basis of:





21) The Immigration Act limited the number of the new immigrants to:





22) When did the USA become involved in the Vietnam War?





23) South Vietnam was established by president Lyndon's support.



24) Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam, was executed on November 2 1963.



25) What was the cause for bombing the North Vietnam?




 

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