Stormy 60's Prep-Game Notes (copy)

Who created the peace corps?

Kennedy

The passage of this resolution gave Johnson a “blank check” in Vietnam

Golf of Tonkin Resolution

What was the name of Johnson’s domestic reform policies?

Great Society

Who was better at working with Congress/got more things passes?

Lyndon Johnson

What was the most serious blow to Johnson’s Vietnam policy?

The Tet Offensive

White Southern’s began to court Black Voters because of what law?

Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Immigration Act of 1965 brought more people from where?

Latin America

This policy by Nixon was the gradual handover of the ground war of the South Vietnamese

Vietnamization

Who was an expert at foreign affairs?

Nixon

NOTE! Johnson’s insistence on fighting the Vietnam war and the Great Society at the same time led to what?

Inflation

NOTE! The skepticism of authority in the 60’s had what?

Deep historical roots in American Culture

At which party convention in Chicago in 1968 were there violent conflicts between police and anti-war demonstrators?

Democratic Convention of 1968

This policy is the French word for “relaxed tensions”

Détente

Who was Nixon’s chief foreign policy advisor?

Henry Kissinger

What was the name of the papers that exposed the deception and lead the United States into the Vietnam War?

Pentagon Papers

NOTE! American forces in Vietnam were composed of who?

The least privileged young Americans

What did Nixon do to the troop numbers?

Decrease

This case said that any abortion law violated a woman’s right to privacy

Roe V Wade.

This law requires that the President reports to Congress when he commits troops

War Powers Act

Who created Medicare?

Johnson

To stop inflation of the 1970’s what President imposed wage and price freeze?

Nixon

In 1973 the American public was shocked to learn that the US was secretly bombing what country?

Cambodia (Ho Chi Minh Trail)

What was Johnson before he became Vice-President?

Majority Leader of the Senate