American History; Chapter 32 Review

Dr. King led a march that started in Selma and ended where?

Montgomery, Alabama

Which political offices did LBJ hold before becoming President in 1963?

Senator, Vice-President, Representative

What was the purpose of the Summer Freedom Project?

Whites and blacks from North went to the South to register blacks to vote

How long did southern Senators filibuster the vote one the Civil Rights Bill in 1964?

83 days

What did the Tonkin Gulf Resolution allow the Presidential election?

Send American troops to Vietnam

What was the capital of North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the war?

North - Hanoi

South - Saigon

What was the outcome of the 1964 Presidential election?

Johnson beat Goldwater by a landslide

LBJ's war on poverty was designed to aide/help what/whom?

Poor, aged, black

Why was LBJ able to push through so many laws/reforms as President?

Controlled Presidency and Congress, experience, and the treatment

What was the reason the US intervened in the Dominican Republic in 1965?

Communists tried to take over -- 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 realized we couldn't win the war

In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. receive the Noble Peace Prize?

1964

Legally, what effect did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have?

Makes it a federal crime when violating someone's civil rights

What group became known for their long hair and strange clothing?

Hippies

Why did President Johnson not run for re-election in 1968?

Vietnam war, didn't do well in primaries

What changes occurred in black voter registration one year after the passage of the Voting Rights Act?

50% increase in blacks registered to vote

LBJ's policies were quite different from Kennedy's… True or False?

False

What policies did Senator Barry Goldwater support in the election of 1064?

Wanted to give all Nato countries in Europe Nuclear weapons

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?

Democrats, 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 advocated using violence to gain attention to their cause… 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

Designed to make America great by a war on poverty

Medicare

Helps people over 65 pay hospital bills

Ecology

The relations of organisms to one another and their physical surroundings

Stokely Carmichael

Preached Black Power

Domino Theory

If one country falls to communism, the surrounding countries will too

Hawks

People who pushed harder to fight and win in Vietnam

Dean Rusk

Secretary of state for Johnson

Medicare

age 65 and older

Rachel Carson

Wrote "Silent Spring" in 1962

Barry Goldwater

Ran against Johnson in 1964, Republican fro Arizona

Malcolm X

Advocate for the rights of African Americans; wanted to protest with violence

Thurgood Marshall

First black to serve on the Justice Supreme court, lawyer, brown v. board

Eugene McCarthy

Was the first candidate to challenge LBJ for the Democratic nomination

Medicaid

Helps "needy" people under 65 pay hospital bills

Ralph Nader

Wrote "Unsafe at Any Speed"

Pentagon Papers

Report of American involvement in Vietnam

Tet Offensive

Huge series of attacks by North Vietnam throughout South Vietnam at the same time.

Viet Cong

Vietnamese Communist, main adversary in the war

VISTA

Domestic Peace Core

Robert Weaver

First director of HUD

William Westmoreland

American Commander in charge of American forces in Vietnam

Robert McNamara

Secretary of Defense for Johnson

what does SDS stand for?

Students for a more democratic society