1960s/70s Review Sheet, dude
Define the following:
Napalm
Hawks vs. Doves
Domino Theory
Détente
Black Panthers
Containment
Peace Corps
Vietcong
Miranda v Arizona
Pleiku
“flexible response”
“Operation Rolling Thunder”
Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution
24th, 25th and 26 Amendments
Helsinki Accords
Camp David Accords
AIM
01. What was the Great Society?
02. What was the Alliance for Progress?
03. What happened in the village of My Lai in 1968?
04. What was the Bay of Pigs? How did it affect JFK’s presidency?
05. Why did JFK move slowly to promote racial justice?
06. What school was integrated during JFK’s administration?
07. Why was President Johnson more successful than President Kennedy in dealing with Congress? List some of his domestic programs.
08. What was Vietnamization?
09. What happened at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
10. Why was the Tet Offensive such a failure for the US? What groups were involved?
11. Who was Stokely Carmichael? Malcolm X?
12. Explain the War Powers Act, 1973
13. What kind of activist was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
14. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?
15. What was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965? Voting Rights Act 1965
16. Why did American forces enter Vietnam?
17. Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
18. Why is Kent State University well-known?
19. What type of American soldiers fought in Vietnam?
20. What was the 1973 agreement in Vietnam?
21. How did JFK respond to the Cuban Missile Crisis? How did the Cuban Missile Crisis end?
22. What was the Warren Commission?
23. What amendment outlawed the poll tax?
24. How did the Tet Offensive impact LBJ’s presidency?
25. Who were the candidates for president in 1968?
26. What were the Pentagon Papers?
27. Who was Henry Kissinger?
28. How did Richard Nixon try to control the creeping inflation in the early 1970s?
29. What were some of the conditions of the cease-fire agreement between the US and the North Vietnamese?
30. Why did VP Spiro Agnew resign in 1973?
31. What did the Watergate Scandal involve? What happened to Richard Nixon?
32. According to Jimmy Carter, what was the problem with the economy?
33. What excuse did Richard Nixon use when he was ordered to turn over his taped conversations?
34. As a result of US support for Israel in 1973 what did the Arab oil nations do to the US?
35. What was the most controversial action of Ford’s presidency?
36. What is Title IX? ERA? Roe V. Wade?
37. Why did President Jimmy Carter boycott the 1980 Olympic Games?
38. What was Robert Kennedy’s Agenda as Attorney General?