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This geopolitical policy, inherited from the
Eisenhower administration,
brought the U.S. into the Vietnam conflict.
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This botched military
operation in 1961 led to JFK’s
distrust of the CIA.
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Signed in 1963 with the Soviets, JFK
considered this the greatest
achievement of his presidency.
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Title VII of this landmark law
forbade discrimination based
on race, religion, gender, or national
origin.
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This landmark law guaranteed the
franchise for virtually all blacks
in the South.
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In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. chose this southern city as his
target since it was the most hardcore “Jim
Crow” city in the country.
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
organized these in 1961 to ensure
desegregation of interstate
transportation.
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This Air Force veteran challenged the
Kennedy administration to
enforce his admission into the University of Mississippi in 1962.
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This shocking 1968 military event signaled
the beginning of the end of U.S.
involvement in Vietnam.
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An alleged “unprovoked” attack on U.S. ships off the coast of Vietnam in
1964 resulted in Congress issuing this,
at the behest of President Johnson.
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Secretary of State Robert McNamara
developed this gradualist strategy in
hopes of thwarting Vietnamese communists.
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This northern Vietnamese leader led
the fight against French imperialism in
the 1950s and U.S. intervention in the
50s and 60s.
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The U.S. supported this corrupt South Vietnamese leader
until his assassination in
1963.
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This landmark 1965 program established guaranteed health
care for the elderly.
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President Johnson waged a war on this, in
hopes of increasing economic opportunity and a higher overall standard of living.
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LBJ supported the creation of this program that
provided pre-school for children in poor
families.
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To increase the public’s access to high culture and
educational programming, the
Great Society established this media network.
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To revitalize inner cities Johnson created this new department,
headed by the first African American cabinet member,
Robert C. Weaver.
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What is Department of Department of Housing and Housing and
Urban Urban Development Development
(HUD)(HUD)?
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This new pharmaceutical
innovation resulted in a “sexual
revolution” in the 1960s.
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Betty Friedan established this
organization that spearheaded the women’s rights
movement of the 60s and 70s.
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What is the National National
Organization for Organization for Women (NOW)Women (NOW)?
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Betty Friedan published this
landmark book in 1962 that launched the women’s rights
movement.
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This amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
established equal access to sports
programs for girls and college females.
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This constitutional amendment finally passed Congress in 1972, but was not
ratified by the states and died in the early
80s.
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This famous NAACP lawyer became the
first African American appointed to the Supreme Court.
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This ad hoc committee concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had
acted alone in assassinating President
Kennedy.
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This monumental law removed quotas
barring the influx of peoples from certain parts of the world.
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This governor stood symbolically in the
University of Alabama admissions doorway in
1962 in protest of integration.
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This entertainment medium facilitated
JFK’s 1960 presidential election victory over Richard Nixon by a razor-thin
margin.
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Perhaps the most popular of JFK’s
initiatives, this program sent young Americans to foreign countries to
help impoverished peoples.
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Because Eisenhower’s “New Look” Military
placed so much emphasis on nuclear forces, JFK
developed this strategy for dealing with smaller conflicts (e.g. creating
the Green Berets).
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This program was JFKs attempt at
creating a “Latin American Marshall
Plan."
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This militant black organization formed
in response to alleged police brutality and
crushing poverty in urban areas.
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The most famous spokesman for the
Nation of Islam, this firebrand preached black
separatism and protection of the black
community “by any means necessary.”
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The first to use the term “black power”
as a social and political slogan in the 60s was this young charismatic leader.
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The emergent black nationalism in the 60s
was inspired by the views of this 1920s Harlem Renaissance
figure.
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This student organization, formed in the 50s as a branch
of King’s SCLC, evolved into a militant black separatist group
by the late 1960s.
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What is the Student Non-Student Non-
violent violent Coordinating Coordinating
Committee (SNCC)Committee (SNCC)?
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This issue was the most important
reason for why so many young people protested the war.
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These communists in South Vietnam were the targets of U.S.
forces in their “search and
destroy” missions.
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President Nixon sought to reduce
U.S. troop levels in Vietnam by
instituting this new policy.
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Daniel Ellsberg published this in the early 1970s that showed how U.S. policy in Vietnam had
been built on a series of lies by the Johnson
Administration.
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This 1968 slaughter of Vietnamese innocents by Lt. William Calley caused widespread protests in the U.S. that referred to U.S.
soldiers as “baby killers.”
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These long-haired, drug-taking, rock-music listening,
sexually- promiscuous youths were
emblematic of the 1960s counter culture.
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The climactic event of the counter culture,
this 1969 concert saw three days of
sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll.
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This 1970 “massacre” in Ohio occurred when
college students protested Nixon’s
announcement that the U.S. was invading
Cambodia.
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A riot broke out at this 1968 event
when students and police clashed on
the streets of Chicago.
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This “New Left” organization began as a
“free speech” movement but later became the brains behind the Vietnam protest movement.
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What is Students for a Students for a
Democratic Democratic Society (SDS)Society (SDS)?
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This young 1968 presidential
candidate took the “dove” position on
the war; he was later assassinated.
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This Arizona Senator and Republican was seen as the “father of modern conservatism” for his platform in the 1964 presidential election.
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Realizing the disaffection many
conservative Democrats had for civil rights, Nixon used this
strategy to win the election of 1968.
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This term refers to President Nixon’s
slogan for “revenue sharing” and
reassigning certain federal
responsibilities to the states.
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This controversial candidate of the American Independent Party ran a
popular third party campaign in 1968, appealing to the
conservative backlash against civil rights and
the counter culture.
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This Thoreau- and Gandhi-inspired
philosophy underlay Martin Luther King’s
civil rights movement.
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What is civil civil disobedience disobedience or
non-violent non-violent resistanceresistance?
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Beginning in 1969, this controversial policy sought to integrate black students by
transporting them to white schools.
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This book by notable American socialist
Michael Harrington, significantly influenced
President Johnson’s “war on poverty.”
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This 1970 book by Charles Reich argued that the
counter culture’s emphasis on personal
freedom, egalitarianism, and recreational drugs, reflected a fundamental
shift in world view.
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This 1962 book, written by this
woman, spawned the environmental
movement in the United States.