Multiple Choice Questions

Spending on social programs (Great Society) and Vietnam War leads to inflation and a recession.
  • Economic Difficulties (late 1960s-1960s)
  • Economic Difficulties (late 1960s-1970s)
  • Economic Difficulties (late 1950s-1970s)
  • Economic Difficulties (late 1960s-1969s)
Relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China.
  • Détente
  • Tet
  • Three Mile Island
  • Gulf of Tonkin
Policy would STOP trying to eliminate communism and win the Cold War, but rather replace it through new initiatives directed toward finding areas of cooperation; Nixon parted with the philosophy of containment, and thought that negotiations and peaceful competition would lead to strengthening of democracies; Détente; Nixon Doctrine.
  • Nixon's foreign policy
  • Nixon Doctrine
  • National Organization of Women
  • Camp David Accords
(1921-2006) American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique".
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Latino Reform (1960s)
  • Nixon Doctrine
  • Betty Friedan
(1973) Women may have abortions for any reason up until "viability" (24-28 weeks).
  • Kent State
  • Vietnam War
  • Betty Friedan
  • Roe v. Wade
A youth-dominated political movement of the 1960s, embodied in such organizations as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weathermen (responsible for arson/bombing of buildings, killing a few people), and the Ree Speech Movement.
  • Kent State
  • Gay Reform (1960s)
  • New Left
  • Bay of Pigs
(March 28, 1979) (Carter) A mechanical failure and a human error at this power plant in Pennsylvania combined to permit an escape of radiation over a 16 mile radius.
  • Policies of Gerald Ford
  • Three Mile Island
  • SALT II
  • Gulf of Tonkin
Richard Nixon (Rep), Hubert Humphrey (Dem), and George Wallace (Am. Independent); After all of the turbulent events of 1968, America experienced a conservative backlash. George Wallace gained support as a third-party candidate basing his campaign on conservative grievances. But Nixon, returning from a loss in the last election ran successfully on a vision of stability, law and order, government reattachment, and peace with honor in Vietnam. Despite a last minute serge by Humphrey, Nixon pulled out a slight victory.
  • 1973 election
  • 1968 election
  • 1967 election
  • 2068 election
White middle-class youths, called "hippies". New Left, against Vietnam War, turned back on America because they believed in a society based on peace and love. Rock'n'roll, colorful clothes, and the use of drugs, lived in large groups. Lived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbuy district because of the availibility of drugs.
  • Black Power Reform (1960s)
  • Policies of Gerald Ford
  • Counterculture of 1960s
  • Foreign Policies of Jimmy Carter
(Summer 1962) American intelligence became aware of a new wave of Soviet technicians and equipment in Cuba and of military construction in progress. This event had shaken both American and Soviet officials. In all the years of cold war, the world never came closer to a full-scale nuclear war.
  • Latino Reform (1960s)
  • Betty Friedan
  • Missile Crisis
  • Native American Reform (1960s)
Wants Black power and equality; Segregationalists; Malcomn X; support from radicals
  • Black Power Reform (1960s)
  • Black Power Reform (2060s)
  • Black Power Reform (1959s)
  • Black Power Reform (1961s)
Interest rates go up; taxpayers revolt in CA - proposition 13 (permanently lowered property taxes); "National malaise" - moral and spiritual crisis; By 1980, approval rating 23%.
  • Great Society Programs
  • Native American Reform (1960s)
  • Vietnam War
  • Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter
(1968) (offensive) the New Year in Vietnam; a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities; TURNING POINT IN THE WAR
  • Policies of Gerald Ford
  • Tet
  • Three Mile Island
  • Détente
National Indian Youth Council: Promoted idea of Indian nationalism and intertribal unity; Group of young, militant Indians formed after the Chicago meeting; (1969) Occupied abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island, by "right of discovery"
  • Native American Reform (2060s)
  • Native American Reform (1860s)
  • Native American Reform (1960s)
  • Native American Reform (1965s)
(1963-1969)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Richard Nixon
  • Ronald Reagan
"The Second Wave of Feminism"; Abortion - Roe v. Wade; books (Feminine Mystique, etc.); NOW; Betty Friedan; Equal Pay Act 1963 (establishes equality of pay for men and women performing equal work)
  • Women Reform (1965s)
  • Women Reform (1860s)
  • Women Reform (2060s)
  • Women Reform (1960s)
(1969) turned over powers and responsibilities of some U.S. federal programs to state and local governments and reduced the role of national government in domestic affairs (states are closer to the people and problems); attempts by Presidents Nixon and Reagan to return power to the states through block grants.
  • New Federalism
  • 1968 election
  • Gulf of Tonkin
  • Three Mile Island
(1974-1977)
  • SALT II
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Gerald Ford
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
Created during the Vietnam War. Stated that the US would honor its existing defense commitments, but in the future other countries would have to fight their own wars without support of American troops.
  • Three Mile Island
  • Vietnamization
  • Détente
  • Nixon Doctrine
Gay Liberation Front: Group of gay activists trying to challenge traditional values and assumptions of the time, show that homosexuality was not aberrant behavior; Stonewall Riot
  • New Left
  • Kent State
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Gay Reform (1960s)
(1961-1963)
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard Nixon
  • John F. Kennedy
(Johnson) War on poverty; Had basic goals like maintaining the strength of the American economy and expanding the responsibilities of the general government for social welfare; Job Corps (work training ages 16-21); Head Start (for preschoolers from low income families); VISTA (volunteers in service to America); Medicare; Medicaid; Housing Projects; CR Act 1964 (eliminates segregation in private places open to the public); 24th Amendment (eliminates poll taxes); Voting Rights Act 1965 (protects voting rights/action); Open Housing Act 1968 (makes renting/selling housing based on race illegal)
  • Kent State
  • Great Society Programs
  • National Organization of Women
  • Gay Reform (1960s)
(1954-1975) a prolonged war between the communist North Vietnam, supported by the Chinese, and the non-communist South Vietnam, supported by the US
  • Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter
  • Great Society Programs
  • Vietnam War
  • Bay of Pigs
(NOW) (1966) founded by Betty Friedan; organization formed to work for economic and legal rights of women; demanded equality in educational and job opportunies, wages, and political representation; creation of childcare facilities; wanted Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforce its legal mandate to end sex discrimination
  • Great Society Programs
  • Kent State
  • National Organization of Women
  • Bay of Pigs
An arm of the South China Sea, bounded by the coasts of southern China and northern Vietnam. Incident in 1964 led to increased U.S. military involvement in the area. President Lyndon B. Johnson incorrectly claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • Vietnamization
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Richard Nixon
  • Gulf of Tonkin
(Rep) Domestic - Pardon of Nixon; more conservative; flight inflation (problem in 60s/70s); Whip Inflation Now (WIN). Foreign - Saigon falls (1975); Cambodia falls, Mayaquez incident.
  • Policies of Gerald Ford
  • Foreign Policies of Jimmy Carter
  • Three Mile Island
  • Counterculture of 1960s
The Camp David Accords were the peace accords signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to finally end the Israeli-Egyptian disputes. The achievement by Carter is considered his greatest achievement in office.
  • Camp David Accords
  • Native American Reform (1960s)
  • Gay Reform (1960s)
  • Missile Crisis
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