America Divided - The Civil War of the 1960s

Who was the president after WWII

Dwight D Eisenhower

What kind of problem did the years of prosperity solve in the 1950s?

Scarcity

How much did the economy grow in 1961?

25%

When was the recession, and how many American wage earners could not find a job?

1958, and 6%

Whose administration had improved the lives of Americans?

The Eisenhower Administration

Effects of Eisenhower Administration

Real wages increased by one-fifth, interstate highways were rapidly expanding, and new schools and houses seemed to sprout up in every middle-class community

What did Congress do to counter the Soviet Union?

Boosted defense spending and create a "military-industrial complex"

True or False - The budget of the federal government was in balance

True

True or False - Senator Ralph Yarborough sought to renew the programs and spirit of the New Deal

True

Who killed John F. Kennedy?

Lee Harvey Oswald

Which city named its airport after John F Kennedy?

New York City

True or False - Were schools, streets, buildings, and the cape of Florida, where scientists and astronauts were working to beat the soviets to the moon named after JFK?

True

Who was the Cuban dictator in 1963?

Fidel Castro

Was inflation low in 1962?

Yes

What was JFK about to order to stop testing nuclear weapons?

Atomic Energy Commission

How many seats did the Democrats lose in the house, and how many seats did the Democrats gain in the senate?

Lost 6 seats in the house, and gained 4 in the senate

how many "advisers" did JFK station in south Vietnam?

11,000

what was the desire of the Vietnamese people?

to reunify vietnam

True or False - Did newspapers begin to call the conflict in Vietnam "McNamara's War?"

true

why was the conflict in vietnam called "McNamara's war?"

he could hardly rein in his own enthusiasm

who was the initial general of the MACV?

General Paul Harkins

who was harkins replaced with?

General William Westmoreland

years of the vietnam war

1955-1975

how many days did the us virtually shut down for?

4 days in nov 1963 after Kennedy's assassination

who was Kennedy's successor?

lyndon b johnson

what was the National youth administration?

a new deal agency that provided work grants to needy college students and public employment to other young people in need of jobs

what did the civil rights act outlaw?

outlawed segregation in public facilities and racial discrimination in employment and education. it outlawed discrimination by government agencies receiving federal funds

when was the civil rights act signed into law

July 2, 1964

how did the civil rights act benefit African Americans?

gave equal rights for African Americans seen since the reconstruction era. far more durable and effective than measures passed in 1860s and 1870s

what did Johnson say that he would hold the federal budget to?

under $100 billion

who wrote the book "the other America" and what's the argument?

socialist activist and intellectual, Michael Harrington. he argued that there was "another America" of 40 to 50 million inhabitants living in the US

founding director of the peace corps

sargent shriver

what was one solution to poverty?

the government would have to take money from those who have it, through taxation, and pass it on to those who lack it. popular known as "welfare" or "the dole"

what is another solution to poverty?

to have the government provide the poor with jobs

what is aid to families of dependent children (AFDC)?

a welfare program created in 1935 to help single-parent families with children

what is the economic opportunity act of 1964?

had job training programs and other forms of educational assistance. allows them to benefit from the opportunities provided by an expanding national economy

true or false - widows with small children at home and people with severe disabilities such as blindness - would still have to turn to welfare agencies for assistance

true

what did the economic opportunity act establish?

Office of Economic Opportunity

who was the director of the office of economic opportunity?

Sargent Shriver

where would the office of economic opportunity's funding go?

go toward providing grants to locally organized community action agencies (CAAs) in poor neighborhoods across the country

what was the goal of CAAs?

to combat poverty

what program did the office of economic opportunity oversee?

job corps

what was the job corps?

it provided vocational training to unemployed teenagers

what did the war on poverty legislation establish?

VISTA (volunteers in service to America)

North Vietnam Leader

Ho Chi Minh (communist)

South Vietnam leader

Ngo Dinh Diem (Anti-Communist)

What was Operation Plan 34A?

South Vietnamese PT boats had been raiding North Vietnamese coastal installations as part of an American-designed operation

What was the other destroyer ship that joined the Maddox?

C. Turner Joy

What resolution got passed in the house and senate?

Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution

What was President Johnson's administration known as?

The Great Society

What was health insurance for the elderly?

Medicare

What was health insurance for poor families?

Medicaid

Water Quality Act of 1965

This protected the nation's water quality against industrial and other forms of pollution

The Clean Air Act

Established federal air quality regulations

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

This department helps poorer families by homes

Who was the Chief Justice for Brown v. Board?

Earl Warren

Decisions of Engel v. Vitale (1962) and Abington Township v. Schempp (1963)

Court ruled against the daily public recitation of prayers or bible-readings that had for generations begun the day in the nation's public schools

Baker v. Carr and Reynold v. Sims

Court ordered that American electoral districts from the state to the federal levels be reapportioned according to the principle of equal legislative representation for equal numbers of people

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

excluded the use of improperly obtained confessions from criminal trials

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Overturned state laws banning abortion

Did the number of people in advocacy groups increase during the 1960s?

Yes

United Farm Workers (UFW)

A union of farmworkers founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez. They broadened their movement into a national civil rights cause, and many supporters helped publicize the table grape boycott

Betty Friedan

wrote the Feminine Mystique

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

A federal agency that was designed to enforce the provisions against both sexual and racial discrimination

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Founded in 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) called for equal employment opportunity and equal pay for women

True or False - The baby boom provided an abundant pool of new eighteen year olds to meet the stepped-up monthly draft calls

True

Who was the SCLC organizer and national chairman?

Organizer was Hosea Williams and the national chairman was John Lewis

SNCC

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Start of the Civil Rights Movement

Began with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus

Michael Harrington

Author of "The Other America"

1965 Immigration Act

Ended national-origins quotas that was established in 1924

February 1962

John Glenn's orbital flight around the moon

Project Apollo

Manned U.S. space program established to land on and explore the moon

George Ball

undersecretary of state spoke out against military escalation in favor of political settlement

Opposition to the Vietnam War

Came from the Democratic Party

Operation Rolling Thunder

bombing campaign over North Vietnam, supposed to weaken enemy's ability and will to fight

Redrup v New York

End of American censorship of written fiction

Generation Gap

The cultural seperation between children and their parents

Kinsey Report

research institutes focussed on sex, gender, and reproduction

Owsley Stanley

chemistry student and was making LSD

spent time in jail

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