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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What party did Adlai Stevenson belong to?

2. Who placed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil in the 1960s?

3. What two national issues gave the FBI director prominence?

4. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?

5. Who wanted to immediately take action to retaliate against the placement of missiles in Cuba?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did the Senate committee investigate associated with money laundering and the mob?

2. What was Robert Kennedy's role in the investigation of Kohler Plumbing?

3. What personal tragedies happened in the Kennedy family during the war and subsequently?

4. Describe Joseph McCarthy.

5. Describe Walter Reuther's position that antagonized Republicans.

6. How did Joe become involved in politics?

7. What was the direct political result of Robert Kennedy's investigation of the six steel companies in the anti-trust case?

8. What action did Robert Kennedy take to enforce the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision in the south?

9. Describe the momentum the civil rights picked up after the death of student Medgar Evans.

10. What did Robert Kennedy do in New York to improve the lives of the poverty-stricken?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define, compare, and contrast the basic elements of segregation and integration. What are merits or disadvantages of each? Share your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

What is counter-insurgency? Does this policy assist the United States in forging international alliances? Why or why not? What are potential problems? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the role of black people in the rural South during the 1950s and 1960s. What rights did they have or lack? What freedoms, restrictions, and rules did they have? How does that differ from what they have today in America?

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