Studied by 4 peopleDr. King led a march(in Alabama) that started in selma and ended where?
Montgomery
What political offices did LBJ hold before becoming president in 1963?
Vice president, U.S. representative, U.S. senate and Senate’s majority leader
What was the purpose of the Summer Freedom Project?
register blacks to vote
How long did southern Senators filibuster the vote on the Civil Rights Bill in 1964?
83 days
What did the Tonkin Gulf Resolution allow the president to do?
send American troops to vietnam
What were the capitals of North and South vietnam during the war?
North- Hanoi South- Saigon
What was the outcome of the 1964 Presidential election?
Lyndon B. Johnson won by a landslide
LBJ’s War on Poverty was designed to aid/help what/whom?
poor 2. aged 3. black
Why was LBJ able to push through so many laws/reforms as President?
legislative experience, democrat
What was the reason the US intervened in the Dominican Republic in 1965?
to stop communism from spreading
LBJ was a former high school teacher, superb “horse trader” and a former senator: true or false
True
What was the outcome of the Tet Offensive?
US won the battle, but we couldn’t win the war
In what year did Martin Luther King Jr. receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
1964
Legally, what effect did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have?
made it a federal crime to violate someone’s civil rights
What group became known for their long hair and strande clothing?
Hippies
Why did President Johnson NOT run for re-election in 1968?
Vietnam, didn’t do well in the primaries
What changes occured in black voter registration one year after the passage of the Voting Rights Act?
50% rise
JBL’s policies were quite different from Kennedy’s: True or False
False
What policies did Senator Barry Goldwater support in the election of 1964?
wanted to give every NATO country access to the nuclear bomb
The following took place during LBJ’s presidency; abolished the immigration quota system, increased federal aid to education, and increased involvement in Vietnam: True or False
True
The “Doves” believed we should continue fighting in Vietnam whatever the cost: True or False
False
What was the name of the generation born after WWII that was the first to grow up under the threat of nuclear war?
Baby Boomers
Vietnam was a declared war: True or False
False
Which political party had dominated the South since the end of the Civil War? What year did that domination end?
Democrats 2. 1964
What was the primary concern of the “Great Society” programs?
to make America great by having a war on poverty
During the 1960’s, some members of the New Left(like the SDS) advocated using violence to gain attention to their causes: True or False
True
Since 1954, North and South Vietnam was divided at the 15th parallel: True or False
False- 17th parallel
Cloture
A procedure for ending a filibuster in a legislature so the question at issue could be brought to vote.
Filibuster
Endless talking to get a bill timed out
Great Society
program to fight “War on Poverty”
Medicare
Helps people over 65 pay hospital bills
Ecology
study of man and nature
Stokely Carmichael
preached black power
Domino Theory
one country falls to communism the surrounding countries will fall as well
Hawks
People who pushed harder to fight and win in Vietnam
Dean Rusk
Johnson’s secretary of state
Rachel Carson
wrote Silent Springs
Barry Goldwater
Ran against Johnson in 1964, Republican for Arizona (conservative)
Malcolm X
Advocate for the rights of African Americans; wanted to protest with violence
Thurgood Marshall
lawyer, brown vs board, first black justice on the supreme court
Eugene McCarthy
almost defeated Johnson in primaries
Medicaid
under 65 pays hospital bills
Ralph Nader
wrote Unsafe at Any Speed
Pentagon Papers
a study of our own involvement in Vietnam; basically said we can not win this war
Tet Offensive
1968 Huge series of attacks by North Vietnam throughout South Vietnam at the same time.
Viet Cong
Vietnamese Communist, main adversary in the war; could be men, women, and even children
VISTA
Domestic Peace Corps
Robert Weaver
director of HUD
William Westmoreland
American Commander in Vietnam
Robert McNamara
secretary of defense
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