American History: Chapter 32

Dr. King led a march(in Alabama) that started in selma and ended where?

Montgomery

What political offices did LBJ hold before becoming president in 1963?

Vice president, U.S. representative, U.S. senate and Senate’s majority leader

What was the purpose of the Summer Freedom Project?

register blacks to vote

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

83 days

What did the Tonkin Gulf Resolution allow the president to do?

send American troops to vietnam

What were the capitals of North and South vietnam during the war?

North- Hanoi South- Saigon

What was the outcome of the 1964 Presidential election?

Lyndon B. Johnson won by a landslide

LBJ’s War on Poverty was designed to aid/help what/whom?

1. poor 2. aged 3. black

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

legislative experience, democrat

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

to 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 we couldn’t win the war

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

1964

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

made it a federal crime to violate someone’s civil rights

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

Hippies

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

Vietnam, didn’t do well in the primaries

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

50% rise

JBL’s policies were quite different from Kennedy’s: True or False

False

What policies did Senator Barry Goldwater support in the election of 1964?

wanted to give every NATO country access to the nuclear bomb

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? What year did that domination end?

1. Democrats 2. 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(like the SDS) advocated using violence to gain attention to their causes: 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

program to fight “War on Poverty”

Medicare

Helps people over 65 pay hospital bills

Ecology

study of man and nature

Stokely Carmichael

preached black power

Domino Theory

one country falls to communism the surrounding countries will fall as well

Hawks

People who pushed harder to fight and win in Vietnam

Dean Rusk

Johnson’s secretary of state

Rachel Carson

wrote Silent Springs

Barry Goldwater

Ran against Johnson in 1964, Republican for Arizona (conservative)

Malcolm X

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

Thurgood Marshall

lawyer, brown vs board, first black justice on the supreme court

Eugene McCarthy

almost defeated Johnson in primaries

Medicaid

under 65 pays hospital bills

Ralph Nader

wrote Unsafe at Any Speed

Pentagon Papers

a study of our own involvement in Vietnam; basically said we can not win this war

Tet Offensive

1968 Huge series of attacks by North Vietnam throughout South Vietnam at the same time.

Viet Cong

Vietnamese Communist, main adversary in the war; could be men, women, and even children

VISTA

Domestic Peace Corps

Robert Weaver

director of HUD

William Westmoreland

American Commander in Vietnam

Robert McNamara

secretary of defense